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Author:

Sheridan Libraries, creator. creator.

Title:

Fakes, lies, and forgeries : rare books and manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection / edited by Earle Havens.

Edition:

Second, revised edition.

Publisher:

Sheridan LibrariesJohns Hopkins University,

Copyright Date:

MMXVI 2016

Description:

vii, 124 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Subject:

Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection--Catalogs.
Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection--Exhibitions.
Literary forgeries and mystifications--Catalogs.
Literary forgeries and mystifications--Exhibitions.
Forgery--Catalogs.
Sheridan Libraries--Catalogs.
Academic libraries--Baltimore--Baltimore--Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.

Other Authors:

Havens, Earle, 1971- writer of supplementary textual content. writer of supplementary textual content.
Tabb, Winston, writer of foreword.
Weijer, Neil, writer of supplementary textual content.
Stephens, Walter, 1949- writer of supplementary textual content.
Gomez, Janet E., writer of supplementary textual content.
Hoffmann, John, 1984- writer of supplementary textual content.
Vile, Scott, book designer.
Ascensius Press, book designer.
Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection.

Notes:

"Designed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press, South Freeport, Maine. Revised second edition of five hundred copies by Penmor Lithographers"--Unnumbered page 126. A detailed catalog of the Sheridan Libraries' Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, complete with selected color photographs, descriptions of forgeries in the collection, and context from scholarly research. Perfect-bound in an illustrated paper wrapper. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Lies, fakes, and forgeries : a checklist of the exhibition. John Hoffmann -- Editor's preface / Earle Havens -- Species and genres of literary and historical forgery / Earle Havens -- History reimagined : filling the gaps in England's ancient past / Neil Weijer -- Discovering the past : the Renaissance arch-forger and his legacy / Walter Stephens -- Scandal! : literary fakes as best sellers / Janet E. Gomez -- Forged identities : race and nationhood from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / John Hoffmann -- Lies, fakes, and forgeries : a checklist of the exhibition.

ISBN:

098380866X
9780983808664

OCLC:

(OCoLC)962028141

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)