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Impostors and imposture

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• Impostors and imposture -- Biography
• Impostors and imposture -- Drama
• Impostors and imposture -- Early works to 1800
• Impostors and imposture -- Encyclopedias
• Impostors and imposture -- England
• Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
• Impostors and imposture -- France
• Impostors and imposture -- Great Britain
• Impostors and imposture -- History
• Impostors and imposture -- Juvenile fiction
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• Impostors and imposture -- New Brunswick
• Impostors and imposture -- New England
• Impostors and imposture -- New York (State)
• Impostors and imposture -- Québec (Province)
• Impostors and imposture -- United States
• Impostors and imposture in literature
• Quacks and quackery
• Trials (Impostors and imposture)

• Charlatans
• Imposters
• Pretenders

• Famous Impostors (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Humbugs of the World (New York: Carleton, 1866), by P. T. Barnum
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at MOA
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, by Charles Mackay
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (HTML at econlib.org)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2-volume edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
• Fanaticism: Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. (New York: the author, 1835), by G. Vale (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Three Impostors, Translated (With Notes and Comments) From a French Manuscript of the Work Written in the Year 1716, With a Dissertation on the Original Treatise, and a Bibliography of the Various Editions (editorship attributed to Briggs; 1904), ed. by Samuel Briggs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino (reprinted from Reformed Church Review, 1910), by Stanley Lefevre Krebs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical guide for troubled people. (Greenberg, 1952), by Lee Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Claimants to royalty. (D. Bogue, 1882), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prince and the pauper : a tale for young people of all ages (Boston : James R. Osgood and Co., 1882., 1882), by Mark Twain, John J. Harley, Frank T. Merrill, Edith Wetherill, Avery & Co Rand, Mass.) Franklin Press (Boston, and James R. Osgood and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham (Harper & Brothers, 1900), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The humbugs of the world. An account of humbugs, delusions,impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, in all ages. (Carleton, 1866), by P. T. Barnum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foibles and fallacies of science; : an account of celebrated scientific vagaries, (D. Van Nostrand company, 1924), by D. W. Hering (page images at HathiTrust)
• False prophets discovered. : Being a true story of the lives and deaths of two weavers (late of Colchester) viz. Richard Farnham and Iohn Bull; who affirmed themselves the two great prophets which should come in the end of the world, mentioned Revel. II ... Here also is laid down their strange prophecies, and the Scriptures which they most blasphemously wrested ... (Reprinted at C. Clark's private press, 1844), by Antisadducismaticus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of imposture, deception and credulity. (Thomas Tegg and son, 1837), by R. A. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern Proteus; A list of books published under more than one title. (F. Leypoldt, 1884), by James Lyman Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politicheskie dvizhenii︠a︡ russkogo naroda (Izd. S.V. Zvonareva, 1871), by D. L. Mordovt︠s︡ev (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of fraud (Chapman and Hall, ltd., 1914), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Noted French trials. Impostors and adventurers. (Soule & Bugbee, 1882), by Horace Williams Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (L. C. Page & company, 1932), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious impostors. (Jones and co., 1823), by M. Aikin and David Hughson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humbugs of the world. An account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, in all ages. (Carleton, 1866), by P. T. Barnum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. (Office of National illustrated library, 1852), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les imposteurs démasqués : et les usurpateurs punis, ou histoire de plusieurs aventuriers qui, ayant pris la qualité d'empereur, de roi, de prince, d'ambassadeur, de tribun, de messie, de prophete, etc., ont fini leur vie dans l'obscurité, ou par une mort violente (Chez Nyon, 1776), by Esprit Joseph Chaudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions (R. Bentley, 1841), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of religious imposters from the seventh to the nineteenth century : to which is added an introductory essay, on the difference between the true spirit of prophecy, and the wild effusions propagated too often to impose and embarrass the susceptive passions of the human mind (Printed for Jones and Co., 1821), by M. Aikin and David Hughson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Isabella (G. Vale, 1835), by G. Vale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the great astronomical discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope. (Effingham Wilson, 1836), by Richard Adams Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humbugs of the world (John Camden Hotten, 1866), by P. T. Barnum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir John Herschel's höchst merkwürdige astronomische Entdeckungen den Mond und seine Bewohner betreffend (J. P. Erie, 1836), by Richard Adams Locke and John F. W. Herschel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions (Lindsay and Blakiston, 1850), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les blagues de l'univers (Achille Faure, 1866), by P. T. Barnum, Alexandre Vattemare, Jules Bobin, Charles de Mandre, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of religious impostors from the seventh to the nineteenth century ... To which is added, An introductory essay ... (Jones and Co., 1821), by M. Aikin and David Hughson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. (G. Routledge and Sons, 1856), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. (L. C. Page, 1932), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der geistliche Abentheurer; oder der als Ueberwinder im Glauben und als Virtuose im Predigen herumfahrende Ritter des H. Stephan-Ordens Freiherr von Mortczinni [pseud]. (Karl Gottlob Dengel, 1784), by Christian Jacob Kraus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les mystères des bandes noires. (The author, 1866), by Josse Sacré (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of fraud (B. Tauchnitz, 1914), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds, with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch. (Noonday Press, 1962), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of rogues and impostors : a historical and critical summary of legends, swindles, hoaxes and rackets (Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1948), by Hereward Carrington and Haldeman-Julius Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grandes descubrimientos astronómicos hechos recientemente por Sir John Herschel en el Cabo de Buena-Esperanza / traducido del inglés por Francisco de Carrión (Imprenta de Ignacio Estivill, 1836), by Francisco de Carrión (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (L.C. Page, 1956), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (London ; New York : G. Routledge, 1869., 1869), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity, by R. A. Davenport (Gutenberg ebook)
• Claimants to Royalty, by John Henry Ingram (Gutenberg ebook)
• Imposteurs insignes. English (London : Printed for William Cademan ..., 1683), by Jean-Baptiste de Rocoles (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Celebrated Claimants, From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) (Gutenberg text)
• Les Imposteurs fameux; ou, Histoires extraordinaires et singulières (Chez Eymery, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Look out for paint: A farce comedy in three acts, by Cornelius Shea (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lääkäri vastoin tahtoansa: Kolminäytöksinen komedia (in Finnish), by Molière, trans. by Oskari Vilho (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy in Five Acts, by Hannah Cowley, contrib. by Mrs. Inchbald (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ensimmäinen rakkaus: Komedia yhdessä näytöksessä (in Finnish), by Eugène Scribe, trans. by Kaarlo Slöör (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le médecin malgré lui (in French), by Molière (Gutenberg ebook)

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