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Order Nr. 123166 BIBLIOTHECA FICTIVA: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO LITERARY...

BIBLIOTHECA FICTIVA: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO LITERARY FORGERY 400 BC-AD 2000.

(London, England): Bernard Quaritch, 2014. 4to. cloth, dust jacket, title gilt-stamped on spine, ribbon bookmark. xvi, 423+(1) pages. "Those who don't study the past tend to pour a thick molasses of nostalgia over it, to idealize and glorify the golden days of yore... Bibliotheca Fictiva brings home that old epigram that the more things change, the more they stay the same. The same fastbuck criminals, twisted hoaxsters, disgruntled academics, deviant malcontents and other forgery perpetrators..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA FICTIVA: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO LITERARY FORGERY 400...

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Order Nr. 127033 JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH...

JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL MYTH.

London, United Kingdom: Bernard Quaritch, 2015. 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets including an infatuated Byron over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published in 1588 and ultimately shown to be a humanist forgery. Julia Alpinula is a fully documented account of..... READ MORE about JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL...

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Order Nr. 79509 GEORGE GISSING (1857-1903), AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS FROM...
(Gissing, George).

GEORGE GISSING (1857-1903), AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS FROM THE PFORZHEIMER COLLECTION IN THE LILLY LIBRARY.

Bloomington, IN: The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1994. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 55 pages. Illustrated in color. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about GEORGE GISSING (1857-1903), AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS FROM THE PFORZHEIMER...

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Order Nr. 135625 GEORGE JOHN PETTIT: A MEMOIR. Arthur Freeman
(Pettit, George John).

GEORGE JOHN PETTIT: A MEMOIR.

London, United Kingdom: Bernard Quaritch, (1985). 8vo. stapled paper wrappers. unpaginated. Light fading to the spine and top edge. Loosely inserted is a presentation card from Arthur Freeman, signed 'A.F.'From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about GEORGE JOHN PETTIT: A MEMOIR

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