"This fully revised and enlarged edition of Bibliotheca Fictiva--the descriptive inventory of a collection of books and manuscripts relating to literary forgery in the Western world over the last twenty-four centuries, now housed in the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University--adds more than six hundred new entries that introduce some sixty entirely new impostors or subjects of imposture. Individual descriptions have been substantially corrected and updated, and the original 'Overview' correspondingly amplified."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliotheca Fictiva: a collection of books and manuscripts relating to literary forgery 400 BC-AD 2000
Literary forgeries and mystifications--History
Faux et supercheries littéraires--Histoire
Faux et supercheries littéraires--Bibliographie
Literary forgeries and mystifications--Bibliography
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliotheca Fictiva: An Overview -- Handlist of the Collection -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Works Cited -- Classical Greek, Hellenistic, and Latin Forgeries, to the Fall of Rome -- Jewish, Judeo-Christian, and Early Christian Forgeries, to the Fall of Rome -- Medieval Forgeries, Religious and Secular -- Renaissance Forgeries, to 1600 -- Seventeenth-Century Forgeries -- Eighteenth-Century British and American Forgers -- Nineteenth-Century British and American Forgers apart from John Payne Collier -- John Payne Collier -- French, Belgian, and Swiss Forgers after 1700 -- German, Austrian, and Dutch Forgers after 1700 -- Italian and Spanish Forgers after 1700 -- Central European, Russian, Greek, and Near Eastern Forgers after 1700 -- British and American Forgers after 1900 -- General Works on Literary Forgery -- Index.