Grant william introd (2 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xxxi, [5], 317, [17] pp., with two frontispiece illustrations + three foldout facsimiles; 8vo, original blue-green glazed cloth; paper title label on spine. "The hoaxing career of William Henry Ireland . peaked in the late 1790s. But after the exposure of his Shakespearean fabrications and (physical) forgeries - a deceptive campaign of unparalleled audacity, which took in a shocking number of learned and half-learned witnesses - he went on to generate quasi-fakes . for nearly forty more years" (Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva, p. 43). A very good copy overall, with some wear at spine ends; sides lightly rubbed; printing on title label faded; short closed tear to one facsimile. Freeman 505.…