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Forgery of manuscripts

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Forgery
Hoaxes
Authorship
Literary curiosa
Errors and blunders, Literary

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Works from the collections

14 works

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    Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth : the life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets / With an appendix by George Bernard Shaw.

    Wilfred Partington | Date: [1946]
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    Fingal an epic poem in six books, taken from Ossian's works.

    Macpherson, James, 1736-1796. | Date: 1788
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    Remarks on the first and second chapter of a late work, intitled, "modern observations on "ancient history." Being Candid Inquiry into the Nature and Tendency of occasional Writings on fictitious Conjunctures; to serve for an Explanation where it may be wanted

    | Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLVI. [1756]
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    Handbook of fictitious names : being a guide to authors, chiefly in the lighter literature of the XIXth century, who have written under assumed names, and to literary forgers, impostors, plagiarists, and imitators / by Olphar Hamst, Esq.

    Ralph Thomas | Date: 1971
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    An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets / by John Carter and Graham Pollard.

    John Carter | Date: 1983
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