Oak Knoll

First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Very entertaining true crime; a literary forgery like Thomas Chatterton. William Henry-Ireland forges Shakespeare items beginning with a deed and continuing with letters and poems and even a play Vortigern and Rowena. Fooling literary London Ireland even persuades Sheridan to stage Vortigern before the forgery is uncovered. Small selection of black and white plates. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.