In addition to providing a checklist of 70 treasures from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, this beautifully-illustrated volume includes five essays that explore the phenomenon of forgery as a creative literary form and...
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In addition to providing a checklist of 70 treasures from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, this beautifully-illustrated volume includes five essays that explore the phenomenon of forgery as a creative literary form and provide an interesting and informative sense of the broader collection. With nearly 1,700 individual items, the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of books and manuscripts of forgery in the world. Highlights include editions of Jesus' posthumous "Letter from Heaven," eyewitness accounts of the Fall of Troy, annotated books from Shakespeare's personal library, Alpine inscriptions recording Noah's settlement of Vienna after the Flood, and a first-hand account of the discovery of Homer's tomb. The collection was assembled over a 50-year period and acquired by the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University in 2011. - Exhibition: Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts, Baltimore, USA (05.10.2014 - 01.02.2015)
Geleitwort: Winston Tabb. - Verfasser der Beiträge: Earle Havens, Neil Weijer, Walter Stephens, Janet E. Gomez, John Hoffmann
"Designed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press of South Freeport, Maine" (Rückseite zur Haupttitelseite)
"Designed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press, South Freeport, Maine. Revised, second edition of five hundred copies printed by Penmor Lithographers." (Seite [126])
Literaturangaben in Endnoten
Winston Tabb: Foreword
Earle Havens: Editor's preface
Earle Havens: Catastrophe? : species and genres of literary and historical forgery
Neil Weijer: History reimagined : filling the gaps in England's ancient past
Walter Stephens: Discovering the past : the Renaissance arch-forger and his legacy
Janet E. Gomez: Scandal! : literary fakes as best sellers
John Hoffmann: Forged identities : race and nationhood from the eighteenth to the twentieth century