Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Sheridan Libraries.

Publication

• Baltimore : Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2014.
• ©2014

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Havens, Earle, 1971-
• Tabb, Winston.
• Weijer, Neil.
• Stephens, Walter, 1949-
• Gomez, Janet E.
• Hoffmann, John, 1984-
• Vile, Scott
• Ascensius Press.
• Bibliotheca Fictiva: The Arthur & Janet Freeman Collection of Literary & Historical Forgery.

Description

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

Alternative Title

Fakes, lies, & forgeries

Subject

• Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection > Catalogs
• Sheridan Libraries > Catalogs
• Literary forgeries and mystifications > Catalogs
• Forgery > Catalogs
• Academic libraries > Baltimore > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Library catalogs – Maryland – Baltimore – 20th century.

Note

• "Designed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press ... Printed in an edition of five hundred copies"--Page [126].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Winston Tabb -- Editor's preface / Earle Havens -- Catastrophe? : 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

• 9780983808664
• 098380866X

OCLC

• ocn897212768
• 897212768
• SCSB-9571247

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries