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In one of the more puzzling portions of his Bibliography of Tennyson,[1] T. J. Wise asserted that Richard Herne Shepherd had caused to be printed and distributed, in 1870 and 1875, no less than six separate piratical editions of The Lover's Tale. Carter and Pollard proved that what Wise called the "First Pirated Edition" was produced after 1880, and showed that there was no evidence to connect it with Shepherd.[2] The present paper argues that what Wise called the "Second Pirated Edition," though such an edition was produced by Shepherd, has heretofore been misdescribed; that something produced by Shepherd is represented by what Wise called the "Third Pirated Edition"; but that the last three of Wise's six editions must be dismissed as imaginary. In somewhat distant relation to his account of the Tale, Wise described The New Timon (1876) as another piracy by Shepherd; the present essay attempts to show that this pamphlet was in fact a forgery produced about 1898, three years after Shepherd's death
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