Order Nr. 126999 LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION. Richard Landon.
LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION.

LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION.

  • (Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2003.
  • 8vo.
  • stiff paper wrappers
  • 79+(1) pages
  • ISBN: 0772760454

Price: $16.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 126999

Produced to celebrate and honour the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Pre-Conference held in Toronto 17 to 20 June 2003, on the theme "TRUE/FALSE: Facsimiles, Fakes, Forgeries, and Issues of Authenticity in Special Collections" the exhibition covers various aspects of literary forgery (and one 'real' forgery) from Richard Bentley and the Epistles of Phalaris to the inventions of Thomas J. Wise and Harry Buxton Forman.The exhibition and accompanying catalogue were prepared by Richard Landon. Table of contents, preface, introduction, bibliography of literature on forgery. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text.