Order Nr. 56747 FORGING A COLLECTION, THE FRANK W. TOBER COLLECTION. Timothy Murray.

FORGING A COLLECTION, THE FRANK W. TOBER COLLECTION.

(Forgery).
  • Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 1999.
  • 8vo.
  • stiff paper wrappers.
  • (iv), xii, 88 pages.

Price: $20.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 56747

First edition. A fine copy.

Exhibition catalogue for the Special Collections Department of the Hugh M. Morris Library at the University of Delaware. Describes 90 works in chronological order under 10 sections including "General Material on Forgery," "George Psalmanazar, the Celebrated Native of Formosa," "James Macpherson and the Ossian Poems," etc. An appendix contains a checklist of Thomas J. Wise letters in the collection, by Meghan J. Fuller. Also includes a Preface, Acknowledgements, a brief note on Tober, and an Introduction. Contains occasional facsimiles from the listed works and a black and white frontispiece of Mr. Tober. Frank W. Tober Collection bookplate designed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press tipped to page 85.