Literary forgeries and mystifications - Early works to 1800
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The fingal of Ossian , an ancient epic poem in six books. Translated from the original Galic language, by Mr. James Macpherson; and now rendered into heroic verse, by Ewen Cameron.
Cameron, Ewen, fl. 1776-1777.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- E-books
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An authentic account of the capture of the Dutch Fleet , consisting of Nine Sail of Men of War, Frigates, &c. at Saldanha Bay, Near the Cape of Good Hope, August 17, 1796. Illustrated with a chart, shewing The Situation of the Dutch Fleet, at the time they surrendered to Vice-Admiral Sir G. K. Elphinstone.
Date: 1796- E-books
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Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century; the greatest part now first published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen of one of the mss. To which are added, a preface, an introductory account of the several pieces, and a glossary.
Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- E-books
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Strictures upon a pamphlet intitled, Cursory observations on the poems attributed to Rowley a priest of the fifteenth century. With a postscript on Mr. Thomas Warton's Enquiry into the same subject.
Greene, Edward Burnaby, d. 1788.Date: [1782]- E-books
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A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. tending to shew that those plays were not written originally by Shakspeare. By Edmond Malone, Esq.
Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]