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• Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, by John Mathew Gutch (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)
• Caraboo : a narrative of a singular imposition practised upon the benevolence of a lady residing in the vicinity of the city of Bristol, by a young woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, princess of Javasu ; illustrated with two portraits engraved from drawings by E. Bird, Esq. R.A. and Mr. Branwhite. (Printed by J.M. Gutch ... Bristol, and published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy ... London, 1817), by John Mathew Gutch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of John Hatfield, commonly called the Keswick imposter : with an account of his trial and execution for forgery; also his marriage with Mary of Buttermere ; to which is added, A pastoral dialogue and the celebrated Borrowdale letter, shewing the native dialect of the district ; and also, The Wild dog of Ennerdale. (Mrs. Bailey, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The falacie of the great water-drinker discovered.: Fully representing what are the ingredients that provoke him to so wonderfull a vomit, and by what art one glass seemeth to be of one colour, and another of another; and what he doth when he taketh the rose-water and the angelica-water. / By Mr Thomas Peedle and Mr Thomas Cozbie, who brought him over into England from Tours in France: and after Wednesday next being the 26 of this present June, will be constantly readie every after-noon, if desired, in their own persons to make an experimental proof of what is here declared. Published for the satisfaction of many of the nobilitie and ladies of this nation, and many eminent gentlemen who have offered great sums of money to have the misterie discovered. As also to undeceive many thousands, who having seen the manner of it, have been amazed at the wonder but could not discover the secret. Licenced and entered into the register-book of the Company of Stationers, according to order. ([London] : Printed by B. Alsop for T. Dunster, and are to be sold at the Red Lion in Grubstreet, Anno Domini 1650), by Thomas Peedle and Thomas Cozbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Life and character of Mrs. Mary Moders, alias Mary Stedman, alias Mary Carleton, alias Mary -------, the famous German princess being an historical relation of her birth and fortunes, with the havock and spoil she committed upon the publick in the reign of King Charles the Second : together with her tragical fall at Tyburn, on the 22d of January 1678, added by way of appendix. (London : Printed for J. Cooke ... and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-sellers ..., [1678?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Diego redivivus: or The last will and testament of the pretended Humphrey Wickham, Esq; alias William Morrel, alias Bowyer, &c. With a full relation of his notorious cheats and impostures: who dyed at Mr Cullins house, the third of ths instant January, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, &c. Licensed and entred in the register-book of the Company of Stationers. (London : printed for Abel Roper, at the Mitre near Temple-Bar, 1692), by William Morrell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Notorious impostor. Part 2. (London : printed for Abel Roper at the Mytre near Temple-Bar, 1692), by Elkanah Settle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia: In Qua Maxima Improborum et Indoctorum Turba Sub Dio Enudatur, Quos aut Subdola Pietatis Pelle Velatos, aut Insolenti Scientiae Fumo Seu Fuco Obductos, Vel Irreligio Mera, Vel Rapax Avaritia Omnes Ultra Impudentes ad Medicinae Praxin Egit Praecipites (in Latin; London: Excudebat Aug. Matheus, 1624), by Peter Bowne (page images at NIH)
• A short discouerie of the vnobserued dangers of seuerall sorts of ignorant and vnconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie: by Iohn Cotta of Northampton Doctor in Physicke. (London : Imprinted [by R. Field] for William Iones, and Richard Boyle dwelling in the Blacke-Friers, 1612), by John Cotta (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mrs. Sarah Bradmores prophecy of the wonders that will happen, anno Dom. 1687 Also what will be the effects of the whales comeing up the river of Thames, and continued the 4th. and 5th. of August, anno Dom. 1686. (London : printed by S.J., 1686), by Sarah Bradmore (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The new Magdalen (Belford, Clarke, & Co., 1888), by Wilkie Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Magdalen ; a novel. (Harper, 1902), by Wilkie Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Magdalen (C. Scribner's, 1908), by Wilkie Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prince and the pauper : a tale for young people of all ages (Harper & Brothers, 1881), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Miraculous Conformist: or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures Performed by the Stroking of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick, With a Physicall Discourse Thereupon (Oxford, UK: Printed by H. Hall for Ric: Davis, 1666), by Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed: Written by Himself In a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., Whereunto Are Annexed the Testimonials of Several Eminent and Worthy Persons of the Chief Matters of Fact Therein Related (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1666), by Valentine Greatrakes, contrib. by Robert Boyle
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• A new fairing for the merrily disposed:, or, The comical history of the famous Merry Andrew.: W. Phill---. ; Giving an account of his pleasant humours, various adventures, cheats, frolicks, & cunning designs both in city and country. (London : Printed by J. Wallis, and sold by most book-sellers, 1688), by William Phillips (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Jones of Hatton-Garden, his book of cures this book dated April the eighteenth, 1673. ([London : s.n., 1673]), by of Hatton-Garden Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Jones of Hatton-Garden, two doors from the sign of the New-Hole in the Wall, his book of cures ([London : s.n., 1674?]), by of Hatton-Garden Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A character of a true physician, or, A true chymist compared with a goose-quill pedant with a short view of the frauds and abuses in physick, committed by the confederate prescribing doctoral methodists, with their combinators the apothecaries ... : being a vindication of such physicians as follow not their method but make and administer their own medicines, being the honestest, safest, cheapest, and speediest way of practice, both for physician and patient / by R. Fletcher ... (London : Printed for the author, 1676), by R. Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The fool and the knave uncas'd or A true narrative of the abominable cheats of Vincent & Collins, two Domincan friers [sic] living in London. ([London? : s.n.], Printed in the year 1678) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The life of John Hatfield, commonly called the Keswick imposter : with an account of his trial and execution for forgery; also his marriage with Mary of Buttermere ; to which is added, A pastoral dialogue and the celebrated Borrowdale letter, shewing the native dialect of the district ; and also, The Wild dog of Ennerdale. (Mrs. Bailey, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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
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• The Humbugs of the World (London: J. C. Hotten, 1866), by P. T. Barnum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1841), by Charles Mackay
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (based on the second edition of 1852), by Charles Mackay
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at econlib.org
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852), by Charles Mackay (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1869), by Charles Mackay
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• 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 with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Uilespiegel-verhalen in Indonesië, in het biezonder in de Soendalanden. (C. A. Mees, 1929), by Lina Maria Coster-Wijsman (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)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham (Harper & Brothers, 1900), by H. G. Wells (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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Les imposteurs insignes : ou Histoires de plusieurs hommes de néant, de toutes nations, qui ont usurpé la qualité d'empereur, de roi, & de prince. Des gue'res qu'ils ont causé, leur évenement, leur regne & leur mort: accompagnées de plusieurs circonstances curieuses (Bruxelles : Chez J. van Vlaenderen, 1728., 1728), by Jean-Baptiste de Rocoles (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)

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