Abramson, Julia Luisa. Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification.
Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
(Aldington, Richard). The Private Life of the Marshal Duke of Richelieu.
New York: Brentano's, 1927. [Aldington's Foreword addresses the question of whether these
memoirs are authentic or forgeries without reaching any definitive conclusions.]
Altick, Richard Daniel. The Scholar Adventurers.
New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Baines, Paul. The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Aldershot, Hants; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999.
Barker, Nicolas. Form and Meaning in The History of The Book: Selected Essays.
London: The British Library, 2003. [A collection of previously unpublished essays on a number of topics including Forgery.]
Berger, Sidney E. The Anatomy of a Literary Hoax.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1994. [Limited to 300 numbered copies and printed letterpress by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press.]
(Bertram, Charles) The Description of Britain, translated from Richard of Cirencester; with the Original Tretise De Situ Britanniae; and a Commentary on the Itinerary.
London: J. White and Co., 1809. [Celebrated literary forgery, contrived by Bertram, who managed to gain William Stukeley's active support in securing the acceptance of the medieval chronicler 'Richard's' work. The forgery was not exposed until around 1866.]
(Bierce, ambrose) Hall, Carroll D. Bierce and the Poe Hoax.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1934. [250 copies printed at the Windsor Press.]
Bliss, Anthony. Caveat Lector*: An exposition: fakes and forgeries, facsimiles and deceptions, hoaxes and imposters, XVI-XX centuries, November 6, 1979-March 31, 1980. [DeKalb, IL: Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, 1981]. [*let the reader beware.]
Blumenthal, Walter Hart. False Literary Attributions; Works not Written by their Supposed Authors, or Doubtfully Ascribed.
Philadelphia: G. S. MacManus, 1965.
Bozeman, Pat (Editor). Forged Documents: Proceedings of the 1989 Houston Conference.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books 1990.
Carter, John. Books and Book-Collectors.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. [The first chapter on T.J. Wise and his forgeries.]
Chambers, Edmund Kerchever. The History and Motives of Literary Forgeries.
Oxford: Blackwell; London, Simpkin, Marshall, 1891. [Being the Chancellor's English Essay for 1891.]
----The History and Motives of Literary Forgeries.
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. [Reprint of the 1891 edition.]
----Chatterton.
New York: Grove Press, 1987. [First American Edition.]
(Chatterton, Thomas) An examination of the poems attributed to Thomas Rowley and William Canynge, with a defence of the opinion of Mr. Warton.
Sherborne: Printed by R. Goadby and Co.; [London]: And sold by R. Baldwin ... London; [Bristol and Bath]: And by the booksellers of Bristol and Bath, [1782].
(Chatterton, Thomas) Croft, Herbert, Sir. Love and Madness. A Story too True, in a Series of Letters Between Parties, whose Names would perhaps be mentioned were they less known, or less lamented..
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street ; and R. Faulder, in New Bond Street 1780.
----Chatterton and "Love and Madness." A letter from Denmark, to Mr. Nichols, Editor of the Gentleman’s Magazine, where it appeared in February, March, and April 1800; respecting an unprovoked Attack, made upon the Writer during his Absence from England.
London: Sold by J. Wright, Piccadilly. Printed by F. Bush, King-Street, Yarmouth, 1800.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Dix, John. The Life of Thomas Chatterton.
London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1837.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Ellinger, Esther Parker. Thomas Chatterton the Marvelous Boy: to which is added 'The Exhibition: A Personal Satire'.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press ; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Gregory, G. The Life of Thomas Chatterton, with Criticisms on his Genius and Writings, and a Concise View of the Controversy concerning Rowley's Poems.
London: G. Kearsley, 1789.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Groom, Nick, ed. Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Kaplan, Louis J. The Family Romance of the Imposter-Poet Thomas Chatterton.
New York: Atheneum, 1987.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Malone, Edmond. Cursory observations on the poems attributed to Thomas Rowley, a priest of the fifteenth century: with some remarks on the commentaries on those poems, by the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Milles, dean of Exeter, and Jacob Bryant, esq.; and a salutary proposal addressed to the friends of those gentlemen.
London: J. Nichols, and sold by J. Walter [etc.], 1782. [First Edition, called the "second," of the first scholarly exposure of Chatterton’s forgery]
(Chatterton, Thomas) Mason, David. Chatterton: A Biography.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, n.d. (1899). [1st American.]
(Chatterton, Thomas) Meyerstein, E.H.W. A Life of Thomas Chatterton.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Nevill, John Cranstoun. Thomas Chatterton.
London: Frederick Muller, LTd., 1948.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades: or, Nugae Antiquae et Novae. A New Elysian Interlude, in Prose and Verse.
London: T. Becket, 1782. [Ascribed to George Hardinge and/or Thomas James Mathias. This two-act interlude features an imaginary meeting between Rowley and Chatterton. Ossian, various characters associated with the Rowley poems, and several dignaries all have a place in this farce. DNB firmly ascribes it to Mathias, as Warren does to Hardinge. Warren p.77.]
(Chatterton, Thomas) Russell, Charles Edward. Thomas Chatterton. The Marvelous Boy: The Story of a Strange Life 1752 - 1770.
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1908.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Taylor, Donald S. Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
(Chatterton, Thomas) Warren, Murray. A descriptive and annotated bibliography of Thomas Chatterton.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
(Collier, John Payne) Collier, John Payne. Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays : From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Forming a Supplemental Volume to the Works of Shakespeare by the Same Editor, in Eight Volumes, Octavo.
London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1852. [Preceeding all others.]
----Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays : From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632,in the Possession
of J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Forming a Supplemental Volume to the Works of Shakespeare by the Same Editor, in Eight Volumes, Octavo.
London: Whittaker and Co., 1853. [First edition, later issue, preceded by 1852 issue under Shakespeare Society imprint.]
----Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays : From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632,in the Possession
of J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Forming a Supplemental Volume to the Works of Shakespeare by the Same Editor. Second Edition, Enlarged and Revised..
London: Whittaker and Co., 1853. [Second Edition, with new Preface, wherein Collier responds to critics.]
(Collier, John Payne) Dyce, Alexander. A Few Notes on Shakespeare: with Occasional Remarks on the Emendations of the Manuscript-Corrector in Mr. Collier's Copy of the Folio 1632.
London: John Russell Smith, 1853.
(Collier, John Payne) Freeman, Arthur. John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century.
London: Yale University Press, 2004.
----Scholarship, Forgery, and Fictive Invention: John Payne Collier Before 1831 London: The Bibliographical Society, 1993. [Offprint from The Library, March 1993.]
(Collier, John Payne) Ganzel, Dewey. Fortune & Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
(Collier, John Payne) Hamilton, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytag. An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632 : and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier.
London: Richard Bentley, 1860.
(Collier, John Payne) Ingleby, Clement Mansfield. A complete view of the Shakspere controversy, concerning the authenticity and genuineness of manuscript matter affecting the works and biography of Shakspere, pub. by Mr. J. Payne Collier as the fruits of his researches.
London: Nattali and Bond, 1861.
----The Shakspeare fabrications, or the ms. notes of the Perkins folio shown to be of recent origin.
With an appendix on the authorship of the Ireland forgeries..
London: J. R. Smith, 1859.
(Collier, John Payne) Singer, Samuel Weller. The Text of Shakespeare Vindicated from the Interpolations and Corruptions Advocated by John Payne Collier Esq. in His Notes And Emendations. London: William Pickering, 1853.
(Collier, John Payne) Tannenbaum, Samuel A[aron]. Shakeperian Scraps and Other Elizabethan Fragments.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. [Story of how Collier used his knowledge of the elizabethan script and blank pages in old manuscripts to dupe the world.]
(Collier, John Payne) Wheatley, Henry B[enjamin]. Notes on the life of John Payne Collier; With a complete list of his works, and an account of such Shakespeare documents as are believed to be spurious.
London: Elliot Stock, 1884. [Reprinted from the Bibliographer, 1883-4.]
David, C. Dorman. Books & Manuscripts, Western Americana, From The Stock Of C. Dorman David and From Other Sources.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1964. [Auction held on Wednesday, September 30. Sale Number 2294. Includes Republic of Texas, War with Mexico and Two Important Texas Maps from the stock of C. Dorman David, "The Bookman," Houston, Texas in addition to property of other owners. 204 items listed.]
David, C. Dorman. Sale of Rare Texas Historical Manuscripts and Autograph Materials: Being Letters, Documents, and Broadsides From The Collection of C. Dorman David To Be Sold To The Highest Bidder At The Warwick Hotel, Houston, June 22, 1971 At Exactly 8:10 P.M.; Auctioneer: Tom Cloud. Houston: The Bookman, 1971. [A memorable sale of spectacular Texana; seventeen of the seventy-seven lots having been lifted from public collections.]
(David, C. Dorman) TEXAS: Autograph Letters and Manuscripts by Stephen F. Austin, James Fannin, Sam Houston and others, Including Many from the Year 1836. Rare Books from the Collection of Robert E. Davis, Waco, Texas. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1967. [At least forty-two of the 125 lots appeared to belong in public collections. Davis acquired this material form Dorman David and the Austin bookseller John Jenkins.]
Erdman, David V. and Ephim G. Fogel, eds. Evidence for authorship: Essays on problems of attribution, with an annotated bibliography of selected reading.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966. [Includes discussion on the forgery of American historical and literary documents.]
Exhibition of Forgeries and Deceptive Copies Held in the Department of Prints & Drawings.
London: British Museum, 1961. [Covers all kinds of forgeries including some books and manuscripts.]
Farrer, James Anson. Literary Forgeries.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907.
(Field, Eugene II) Butts, William L. Absolutely, Mister Sickles? Positively, Mister Field!: New Light on the Eugene "Pinny" Field II and Harry Dayton Sickles Forgery Case.
Hollywood, FL: International Autograph Collectors Club & Dealers Alliance, 2001. [650 Copies]
Forging a Collection: The Frank W. Tober Collection on Literary Forgery - Catalog of an Exhibition, August 19 to December 15, 1999.
Newark, DE: University of Deleware Libray, 1999.
(Forman, H. Buxton). Between the Lines; Letters and Memoranda Interchanged By Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise. With a Foreword By Carl H. Pforzheimeer and an Introductory Essay and Notes By Fannie E. Ratchford.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1945.
(Fortsas Bibliohoax). Catalogue d’une très-riche mais peu nombreuse collection de livres provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M.r le Comte J.-N.-A. de Fortsas.
Mons: Typographie d'Em. Hoyois, Libraire, [1840].
(Fortsas Bibliohoax) [Hawley, Timothy]. True Narrative of the Early Life and Cruel Abduction of M. Jean-Népomucène-August Pichauld, Comte de Fortsas, with an Exposé of the Supposed Fortsas Hoax.
University City, MO: Contre Coup Press, [1982].
(Fortsas Bibliohoax) Jean-Léo. Le Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Comte de Fortsas: Une Savante Mystification de Renier Chalon.
Bruxelles: Le Grenier du Collectionneur, 1990. [A reprint of the Catalogue; 80 copies.]
(Fortsas Bibliohoax) Klinefelter, Walter. The Fortsas Bibliohoax.
New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1942.
Furneaux, Rupert. Fact, Fake or Fable? Controversies and arguments about buried treasure, questions of identity, fraudulent inscriptions, forged documents and strange ruins.
London: Cassell, 1954.
Hamilton, Charles. Great Forgers and Famous Fakes: The Manuscript Forgers of America and how they Duped the Experts.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1980.
----The Hitler Diaries: Fakes That Fooled the World.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1991.
----Scribblers & scoundrels.
New York: P. S. Eriksson, 1968.
Hamst, Olphar, pseud. (Thomas, Ralph). Handbook of Fictitious Names: Being a Guide to Authors, Chiefly in the Lighter Literature of the 19th century, who have Written under Assumed Names; & to Literary Forgers, Imposters, Plagiarists, and Imitators.
London: John Russell Smith, 1868.
Harris, Robert. Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.
Boston: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Haywood, Ian. Faking It : Art and the Politics of Forgery.
New York: St. Martins Press, 1987.
----The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and
Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth-Century Ideas of History and Fiction.
London: Associated University Presses, 1986.
Hector, L. C. Palaeography and Forgery.
London: St. Anthony's Press, 1959.
(Hofmann, Mark) Gilreath, James. The Judgment of Experts: Essays and Documents about the Investigation of the Forging of the Oath of a Freeman.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1991.
(Hofmann, Mark) Hofmann, Mark. Hofmann's Confession.
Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987. [In three volumes.]
(Hofmann, Mark) Lindsey, Robert. A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
(Hofmann, Mark) Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith. The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
(Hofmann, Mark) Sillitoe, Linda and Allen D. Roberts. Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders.
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988.
(Hofmann, Mark) Tanner, Jerald and Sandra. Confessions of a White Salamander: An analysis of Mark Hofmann's disclosures concerning how he forged Mormon documents and murdered two people.
Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987.
----The Mormon Church and the McLellin Collection: How Mormon leaders suppressed a "key" item in the Hofmann murder-forgery case.
Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1993.
----Tracking the White Salamander: The Story of Mark Hofmann, Murder and Forged Mormon Documents.
Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987.
(Hofmann, Mark) Turley, Richard E. Victims: LDS Church and the Mark Hoffman Case.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
(Hofmann, Mark) Worrall, Simon The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery.
New York: Dutton, 2002.
Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. [Discusses forgery in terms of paper.]
Inghirami, Curzio. Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta, quibus Urbis Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestae indicantur ....
Frankfurt (i.e. Florence): Giovanni Battista Landini, 1637. [Opinions are divided on who was the author of this elaborate literary hoax which fabricated fragments of an Etruscan chronicle purportedly written by a certain Prosper Fesulanus in 60 BC. The antiquary Curzio Inghirami maintained that he found the chronicle among his family's papers and decided to publish it, backed up by already known and recently discovered Etruscan inscriptions around Volterra. Borroni and Brunet believe that
Curzio fell victim to a hoax by his relative Tommaso Inghirami of Volterra, the Italian humanist (1470-1516), whose rhetorical talent was praised by Erasmus, who became librarian of the Vatican library in 1510 and whose portrait was painted by Raphael (now in the Galleria Pitti, Florence). The cataloguers of the British Library catalogue of 17th century Italian literature argue that Curzio himself was the forger.]
(Inghirami, Curzio) Rowland, Ingrid D.. The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
(Ireland, William Henry) Boaden, James. A Letter to George Steevens, Esq., containing a Critical Examination of the Papers of Shakspeare; published by Mr. Samuel Ireland: To which are added, Extracts from Vortigern
.
London: Printed for Martin and Bain, 1796.
(Ireland, William Henry) Chalmers, George. An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-papers, which were exhibited in Norfolk-Street.
London: Printed for Thomas Egerton, Whitehall, 1797.
----A Supplemental Apology for the Believers in the Shakespeare-papers: Being a Reply to Mr. Malone's Answer, Which was Early Announced, but Never Published: With a Dedication to George Steevens, F.R.S. S.A. and a Postscript to T.J. Mathias, F.R.S. S.A. the Author of the Pursuits of Literature.
London: Printed for Thomas Egerton, 1799.
----An Appendix to the Supplemental Apology for the Believers in the Supposititious Shakspeare-papers: Being the Documents for the Opinion that Hugh McAuley Boyd Wrote Junius's Letters.
London: Printed by Luke Hansard, for Thomas Egerton, 1800.
(Ireland, William Henry) Grebanier, Bernard. The Great Shakespeare Forgery.
New York: Norton, 1965.
(Ireland, William Henry) Haraszti, Zoltán. The Shakespeare Forgeries of William Henry Ireland.
Boston: Published by the Trustees of the Public Library, 1934. [An offprint from the November 1934 issue of More Books the Bulletin of the Boston Public Library.]
(Ireland, William Henry) Hardinge, George. Chalmeriana.
London: , 1800.
(Ireland, William Henry) Ingleby, C. Mansfield. The Shakespeare fabrications, or the ms notes of the Perkins folio shown to be of recent origin with an appendix on the authorship of the Ireland forgeries.
London: John Russell Smith, 1859.
(Ireland, William Henry) Ireland, Samuel. An Investigation of Mr. Malone's Claim to the Character of Scholar, or Critic. Being an examination of his inquiry into the authenticity of the Shakespeare Mss., &c..
London: R. Paulder, 1797.
(Ireland, William Henry) Ireland, Samuel. Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakspeare: Including the Tragedy of KING LEAR, and a Small Fragment of HAMLET, From the Original MSS. in the Possession of Samuel Ireland of Norfolk Street.
London: Printed by Cooper and Graham, Bow Street, Covent Garden. Published by Mr. Egerton, Whitehall; Messrs. White, Fleet Street; Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden; Mr. Robson, and Mr Faulder, New Bond Street; and Mr. Sael, opposite St. Clement's Church, 1796. [Samuel Ireland's published account of his son's 'discoveries'.]
(Ireland, William Henry) Ireland, Samuel. Mr. Ireland's Vindication of His Conduct Respecting the Publication of the Supposed Shakspeare Mss. Being a Preface or Introduction to a Reply to the Critical Labors of Mr. Malone, in His "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Papers, &c., &c.".
London: Published by Mr. Faulder and Mr. Robson, New Bond Street; Mr. Egerton, Whitehall; and Messrs. White, Fleet Street, 1796.
(Ireland, William Henry) Ireland, William Henry. An Authentic Account of the Shaksperian Manuscripts, &c..
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. [William Henry's Confession.]
(Ireland, William Henry) Ireland, William Henry. The Confessions of William Henry Ireland: Containing the Particulars of His Fabrication of the Shakspeare Manuscripts: together with Anecdotes and Opinions (Hitherto Unpublished) of
Many Distinguished Persons in the Literary, Political, and Theatrical World.
London: Printed by Ellerton and Byworth ... for Thomas Goddard ..., 1805.
(Ireland, William Henry) Mair, John. The Fourth Forger: William Ireland and the Shakespeare Papers.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1938.
(Ireland, William Henry) Malone, Edmond. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal
Instruments: Published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and Attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of
Southampton: Illustrated by Fac-similes of the Genuine Hand-writing of that Nobleman, and of Her Majesty: a New Fac-simile of
the Hand-writing of Shakspeare, Never Before Exhibited: and Other Authentick Documents: in a Letter Addressed to the
Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont.... .
London: Printed by H. Baldwin, for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) ..., 1796.
(Ireland, William Henry) Oulton, Walley Chamberlain. Vortigern under Consideration: with General Remarks on
Mr. James Boaden's Letter to George Steevens, Esq., Relative to the Manuscripts, Drawings, Seals, &c. Ascribed to
Shakespeare, and in the Possession of Samuel Ireland, Esq..
London: Printed for H. Lowndes ..., 1796.
(Ireland, William Henry) Pierce, Patricia. The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland.
Stroud, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing, 2004.
(Ireland, William Henry) Stewart, Doug. The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010.
(Ireland, William Henry) Smith, Robert Metcalf and Howard Seavoy Leach. The Shakespeare Folios and The Forgeries of Shakespeare’s Handwriting in the Lucy Packer Linderman Memorial Library of Lehigh University, with a List of Original Folios in American Libraries.
Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University, 1927.
(Ireland, William Henry) [Waldron, Francis Godolphin]. Free Reflections on Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakspeare, in the Possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk-Street. To Which are Added, Extracts from an Unpublished MS. Play, Called THE VIRGIN QUEEN. Written by, or in Imitation of, Shakspeare.
London: Printed for F. G. Waldron, at No. 18, Prince's Street, opposite Gerrard Street, St. Ann's, 1796.
(Ireland, William Henry) Webb, F. Shakspeare's Manuscripts in the Possession of Mr. Ireland.
London: , 1796.
(Ireland, William Henry) Woodward, George Murgatroyd. Familiar Verses from the Ghost of Willy Shakespeare to Sammy Ireland.
London: , 1796.
(Jenkins, John) Jenkins, John H. Audubon and Other Capers: Confessions of a Texas Bookmaker.
Austin: Pemberton Press, 1976.
(Jenkins, John) Jenkins, John H. The Eberstadt Caper.
Austin: Pemberton Press, 1975. [375 copies printed.]
(Jenkins, John). The Immense and Distinguished Half-Title Collection. Ardsley: Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts, Inc, 1980. [Twenty-five copies of this book have been
designed and printed by Ink inc. of New York City. Johnny Jenkin's great spoof of limited edition book
collecting. Tipped in plates of hightest quality Xerox images. Johnny's poker card marking prowess may be
the only absolutely true part of the book.]
(Jenkins, John) Taylor, W. Thomas. Texfake. An Account of the Theft and Forgery of Early Texas Printed Documents. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1991.
(Jenkins, John) Taylor, W. Thomas. The Plot of Bartolomé Pagés. To Free Santa Anna from the Chains of His Texian Captors in Late 1836; the Discovery of the Plot and His Subsequent Arrest; His Escape, Capture, Trial, and Punishment; Concluding with His Doleful Letter from Prison to Sam Houston with: A Further Account of the Modern Forgery of the Only Known Copy of the Reward Poster Issued by Sheriff Calder in 1836; the Twisting History of Copies Fake and Real; Their Discovery and Exposure, Concluding with a Few Remarks on the Staining & Baking of Paper.
Dallas: DeGolyer Library, 1990.
Joline, Adrian H. Rambles in Autograph Land.
New York: Putnam, 1913. [Includes a chapter on forgeries.]
Jones, Mark (Ed.). Fake? The Art of Deception.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. [Based on an exhibition at the British Museum. Includes Textural forgery by Nicholas Barker.]
----Why Fakes Matter: Essays on Problems of Authenticity.
London: British Museum Press, 1992.
Katsoulis, Melissa. Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes.
London: Constable, 2009. [Published in USA as Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds.]
(King-Hall, Magdalene). The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1926. [A literary fraud.]
Knight, Peter, & Long, Jonathan (Editors). Fakes and Forgeries.
London: Cambridge Scholars Press, Ltd., 2005.
Koobatian, James (Compiler). Faking It: An International Bibliography of Art and Literary Forgeries, 1949—1986.
Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association, 1987. [Updates and expands Robert George Reisner's book Fakes and Forgeries in the Fine Arts which covered writings on forgeries in the arts from 1848-1948.]
Lang, Andrew. Books and Bookmen.
New York: George J. Coombes, 1886 . [With chapters on literary forgeries, bookbindings, and six other subjects.
The English edition of this book appeared in 1887 and does not contain two of the chapters and the
dedication is no longer to Brander Matthews.]
Lavay, Jerome B. Disputed Handwriting: An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work
upon One of the Most Important Subjects of To-day.
Chicago: Harvard Book Company, 1909.
(Lucas, Vrain-Denis) Bordier, Henry and Emile Mabille. Une Fabrique de Faux Autographes, Ou Recit de L'Affaire Vran Lucas.
Paris: 1870.
(Lucas, Vrain-Denis) Rosenblum, Joseph, (Translator). Prince of Forgers.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. [The first English translation of, Une Fabrique de Faux Autographes, Ou Recit de L'Affaire Vran Lucas.]
(Macpherson, James). Allen, Paul Marshall. Fingal's Cave, the poems of Ossian, and Celtic Christianity.
New York: Continuum, 1999.
(Macpherson, James). Curley, Thomas M. Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. [Details Johnson's involvement in the Ossian controversy.]
(Macpherson, James). MacDonald, Keith Norman. In defence of Ossian: a summary of the evidence in favour of the authenticity of the poems.
Glasgow: Alex Maclaren & Sons, 1906. ["Reprinted from the Oban Times"]
(Macpherson, James). Ossian. Fingal, An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books. Together with several other Poems composed by ossian the Son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A DeHondt, 1762. [a fabrication by Macpherson who was obsessed with 'primitivism'. He composed the work himself incorporating fagments of genuine ancient Galic poetry.]
(Macpherson, James). Smart, John Semple. James Macpherson: An Episode in Literature.
London: David Nutt, 1905.
Madan, Falconer. Books in Manuscript: A Short Introduction to their Study and Use.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1893. [Includes a long chapter on literary forgeries.]
(Major Byron) Ehrsam, Theodore G. Major Byron: The Incredible Career of a Literary Forger.
New York: Charles S. Boesen; London: John Murray, 1951.
(Major Byron) Soderholm, James. Fantasy, Forgery and the Byron Legend.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Mendelsohn, Oscar Adolf. Suspected Documents and Outrageous Liars.
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1976.
Michener, James A. Collectors, Forgers and A Writer: A Memoir.
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. [250 copies printed and signed.]
Montgomery, Henry Riddell. Famous Literary Impostures: A series of Essays.
London: E. W. Allen, 1884. [Five Essays: "Chatterton and the Rowley Poems", "Macpherson's Poems of Ossian", "The Shakspeare Forgery" [Ireland], "Psalmanazar and the Formosa Imposture" and "Bentley and the Epistles of Phalaris".]
Morrissette, Bruce. The Great Rimbaud Forgery: The Affair of 'La Chasse Spirituelle', with Unpublished Documents and an Anthology of Rimbaldian Pastiches.
Saint Louis: Washington University Studies, 1956.
Myers, Robin. Fakes and Frauds: Varieties of Deception in Print & Manuscript.
Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1989.
Nelson, Randy F. Almanac of American Letters.
Los Altos, CA: William Kaufman, 1981. [Includes a chapter on literary forgery.]
Newnham, Richard. Guinness Book of Fakes, Frauds & Forgeries.
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1991.
Nickell, Joe. Detecting Forgery: Forensic Investigation of Documents..
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
----Pen, Ink, & Evidence : A Study of Writing and Writing Materials for the Penman, Collector, and Document Detective.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Osborn, Albert S. Questioned Documents. A Study of Questioned Documents with an
Outline of Methods by Which the Facts May be Discovered and Shown.
Rochester: The Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1910.
----The Problem of Proof: Especially as Exemplified in Disputed Document Trials.
New York: Matthew Bender , 1922.
----Questioned Document Problems: The Discovery and Proof of the Facts.
Albany: Boyd Printing Company, 1944.
Paton, Alexander. The triumphs of genius.
London: Constable & Co., and Oliver & Boyd, 1822. [Includes remarks on plagiarism and forgery, freedom of the press, Chatterton, etc.]
Paull, H.M. Literary Ethics: A Study in the Growth of the Literary Conscience.
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1928.
----Literary Ethics: A Study in the Growth of the Literary Conscience.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1929.
[First U.S. Edition.]
Psalmanaazaar [also Psalmanazar], George [pseud.]. AN Historical and Geographical DESCRIPTION OF FORMOSA, AN Island subject to the Emperor of Japan. GIVING An Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants. Together with a Relation of what happen'd to the Author in his Travels; particularly his Conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several Parts of Europe. Also the History and Reasons of his Conversion to Christianity, with his Objections against it (in defence of Paganism) and their Answers. To which is prefix'd, A PREFACE in Vindication of himself from the Reflections of a Jesuit lately come from China, with an Account of what passed between them. By George Psalmanaazaar, a Native of the said Island, now in London. Illustrated with several Cuts.
London: Printed for Dan. Brown, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; G. Strahan, and W. Davis, in Cornhill; and Fran. Coggan, in the Inner-Temple-Lane. 1704.
----MEMOIRS of ****. Commonly known by the name of GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A Reputed Native of FORMOSA. Written by himself, In order to be published after his Death: CONTAINING An Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England.
London: Printed for the executrix: Sold by R. Davis ... J. Newbery ... L. Davis ... and C. Reymers ... , 1764.
(Psalmanazar) Foley, Frederic J. The Great Formosan Impostor.
[St. Louis]: Jesuit Historical Institute, St. Louis University, 1968.
(Psalmanazar) Keevak, Michael. The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’s Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.
(Psalmanazar) Swiderski, Richard M. The False Formosan: George Psalmanazar and the Eighteenth-Century Experiment of Identity.
San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1991.
(Prokosch, Frederic) Barker, Nicolas. The Butterfly Books: An Inquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets.
London: Bertram Rota, 1987.
Reisner, Robert George. Fakes and Forgeries in the Fine Arts: A Bibliography.
New York: Special Libraries Association, 1950. [see also: Koobatian, James.]
Rendell, Kenneth W. Forging History: The Detection of Fake Letters and Documents.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
----History Comes to Life: Collecting Historical Letters & Documents.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995 . [Includes information on forgery.]
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Books and Bidders: The Adventures of A Bibliophile.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. [Includes the chapter "Some Literary Forgeries".]
Rosenblum, Joseph. Practice to Decieve: The Amazing stories of Literary Forgery's Most Notorious Practitioners .
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000.
Ruthven, K.K. Faking Literature.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Starrett, Vincent. Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor.
New York: Random House, 1940
Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
Smith, Robert Metcalf. The Shelley Legend.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. [Includes chapters on Major Byron and T.J. Wise and Buxton Forman.]
(Spectra Hoax) Bynner, Witter and Arthur Davison Ficke (writing as Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish). Spectra: New Poems.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. [A literary spoof.]
(Spectra Hoax) Smith, William Jay. The Spectra Hoax.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
(Tickell, Richard) The Green Box of Monsieur de Sartine, found at Mademoiselle Du The's lodgings.
London: 1779. [Contains a number of spurious letters of Benjamin Franklin.]
Tout, Thomas Frederick. Mediæval forgers and forgeries.
Manchester: The University Press; London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and company, 1920.
(Weisberg, Charles) Whiteman, Maxwell. Forgers & Fools: The Strange Career of "Baron" Weisberg and the Incredible Story of Documents Destroyed and Disburdened from the Philadelphia Custom House.
New York: The Typophiles, 1986. [Typophile Monograph New Series No. 3. 480 Copies.]
Wheless, Joseph. Forgery in Christianity: A Documented Record of Jewish-Christian Forgeries, Frauds, and Fakeries.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1930.
Whitehead, John. This Solemn Mockery: The Art of Literary Forgery.
London: Arlington Books, 1973.
Wise, Thomas J. The Ashley Library: A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Collected by T. J. Wise.
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1922-1936. [11 Volumes.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Barker, Nicolas. A Note on Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (1854).
London: The Scolar Press, 1983.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Barker, Nicolas and John Collins. A sequel to An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard : the forgeries of H. Buxton Forman & T.J. Wise re-examined.
London: The Scolar Press, 1983.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Baughman, Roland Orvil. Some Victorian Forged Rarities.
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1936. [Rpt. from the Huntington Library Bulletin No. 9 (1936). On the copies of Wise forgeries in the Huntington Library.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Bloomfield, Arthur L. (Arthur Leonard). Sir Edmund Gosse and the Wise forgeries: bibliography for an address before the members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco.
San Francisco: Aucune Press, 1953.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Bratcher, James T. and Lyle H. Kendall, Jr. A Suppressed Critique of Wise's Swinburne Transactions. Addendum to An Enquiry.
Austin: University of Texas, Humanities Research Center, 1970.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Burnett, T.A.J. Catalogue of the Ashley Manuscripts in the British Library.
London: British Library, 1999. [Two Volumes. Covers the manuscript portions of the Ashley library of T.J. Wise.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard. An Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Ninetenth Century Pamphlets.
London: Constable & Co., 1934.
----An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, Second Edition, with an Epilogue.
London and Berkeley: Scolar Press, 1983.
[Edited by Nicolas Barker and John Collins.]
----The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co.: Footnote to an Enquiry.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948.
[Eratta laid in.]
----Working Paper No. 1: Precis of Praden or the sources of The new Timon.
Oxford: Blackwell's, 1967.
[Issued in an edition of 140 copies (105 for sale).]
----Working Paper No. 2: The forgeries of Tennyson's plays.
Oxford: Blackwell's, 1967.
[Issued in an edition of 140 copies (105 for sale).]
----Working Paper No. 3: The mystery of the "Death of Balder".
Oxford: Blackwell's, 1969.
[Issued in an edition of 200 copies (? for sale).]
----Working Paper No. 4: Gorfin's Stock.
Oxford: Blackwell's, 1970.
[Issued in an edition of 400 copies (? for sale).]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Collins, John. The Two Forgers: A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James Wise.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1992.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Drinkwater, John. A Book for Bookmen: Being Edited Manuscripts & Marginalia with Essays on Several Occasions. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. [Dedicated to Thomas J. Wise and includes as a chapter "Mr. Wise's 'Ashley Catalogue' Volume IV".]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Facsimiles & Forgeries: A Guide to a Timely Exhibition in the William L. Clements Library.
Ann Arbor: [Ann Arbor Press], 1934. [Exhibition mounted in conjuction with release of Carter & Pollard's Enquiry. 1,000 copies.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Foxon, D.F. Thomas J. Wise and the Pre-Restoration Drama: A Study in Theft and Sophistication..
London: The Bbiliographical Society, 1959.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Haslam, G.E. (editor) Wise After the Event. A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts and
Letters Relating to Thomas James Wise Displayed in an Exhibition in Manchester Central Library September 1964.
N.p.: Manchester Libraries Committee, 1964.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Introductions by Richard Curle, Augustine Birrell, Edmund Gosse, John Drinkwater, E.V. Lucas, A. Edward Newton, R.W. Chapman, David Nichol Smith, Alfred W. Pollard, J.C. Squire to the catalogue of the Ashley Library (1922-1930) collected by Thomas James Wise. New York: William H. Smith, Jr., 1934. [500 Copies.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) A Jekyll-and-Hyde Exhibition.
Waterville, ME: Colby College Library, 1938. [Exhibition of books by and about Thomas James Wise.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Lewis, Roger C. Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Nineteenth Century Pamphlets: with an Appendix of Wiseiana.
New York: The Scribner Book Store, 1945. [Catalogue Number 131.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Partington, Wilfred. Forging Ahead.
New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1939.
----Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946.
[with new material and considerably enlarged since the original publication of Forging Ahead in 1939.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Peabody Institute Library. Crime & the literati : fraud & forgery in literature / Exhibition at the Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, May & June 1962.
Baltimore: The Library, 1962. [Exhibition that included a substantial section on Thomas J. Wise (items 130-39 are Wise forgeries, 140-68 are Wise-related, a number of them loaned by John Carter.]
(Wise, Thomas J.) Pedley, Katharine Greenleaf. Moriarty in the Stacks: The Nefarious Adventures of Thomas J. Wise.
Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1966.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Ratchford, Fannie E. Certain Nineteenth Century Forgeries. An Exhibition of Books and Letters at the University of Texas, June 1-September 30, 1946. Austin: University of Texas, 1946.
----Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: A Further Inquiry Into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944.
----A Review of Reviews. Part I: An Inquiry, Part II: Wise's Letters.
(Austin: University of Texas, 1946)
(Wise, Thomas J.) Shady Practices and Warm Regards. An Exhibit of Wise Forgeries for the Itnernational Associations of Bibliophiles. 1 October - 16 December 1985.
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1985.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Todd, William B. The Forgeries of William Morris: An Exhibit.
[Austin]: Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, [1973].
----Suppressed Commentaries on the Wiseian Forgeries: Addendum to an Enquiry.
Austin: University of Texas, Humanities Research Center, 1970.
----Thomas J. Wise: Centenary Studies.
Austin: University of Texas, Humanities Research Center, 1959.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Wells, Gabriel. The Carter-Pollard Disclosures.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934.
(Wise, Thomas J.) Wren, Harold B. Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Henry Wrenn.
Austin: The University of Texas, 1920. [Includes descriptions of approx. 60 of Thomas Wise's forged pamphlets along with an impressive array of important literary legitimates.]
Zinnel, George H. Forgeries, Handwriting: Something for Nothing.
Minneapolis: Bureau of Engraving, 1931. [examines forgery in its most basic manifestations: forged handwriting, spurious checks, typewriter comparisons, and even forged college examinations]
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