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• Frauds, Literary
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• Mystifications, Literary
• Literary forgery

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• Le Taensa a-t-il Eté Forgé de Toutes Pièces? Réponse à M. D.G. Brinton (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Lucien Adam (multiple formats at Google)
• Le Taensa n'a pas Été Forgé de Toutes Pièces: Lettre de M. Friedrich Müller à Lucien Adam (in French and German; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (multiple formats at Google)
• An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and Other Bards Who Flourished in the Same Age (Montrose, Scotland: Printed by J. Watt, 1816), by Hugh M'Callum and John M'Callum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed (reprinted from the American Antiquarian, March 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temora: An Epic Poem, by James Macpherson (HTML with commentary at Auburn)
• Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa, Avec Textes Traduits et Commentés (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1882), by J. Parisot, Lucien Adam, and A. Dejouy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930), by Derk Bodde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Cookery, With Reference to Matter Attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare: A Letter Addressed to "The Athenaeum", With a Postscript Containing Some Remarks Upon the Refusal of That Journal to Print It (London: J.R. Smith, 1855), by Andrew Edmund Brae
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Chatterton, The Black death, ([New York?, c1922]), by Charles Reznikoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions de littérature légale. (Paris : Barba, 1812), by Charles Nodier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ältesten denkmäler der böhmischen sprache: (Prag, In commission bei Kronberger und Riwnac, 1840), by Pavel Jozef Safárik, Václav Hanka, Václav Alois Svoboda, and Frantisek Palacký, contrib. by Martin Hattala (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temora: an epic poem. (Perth, Printed by R. Morison, for the author, 1818), by James Macpherson and Thomas Travers Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vindication of Bishop Cleaver's edition of the Decretum Lacedæmoniorum contra Timotheum, from the strictures of R. P. Knight, esq., (London, Printed by J. Nichols and son, [1821]), by Thomas Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of James Macpherson, esq., with the life of the author. (Edinburgh, Printed by J. Pillans & sons, for P. Hill; [etc., etc.], 1802), by James Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian; (Edinburgh, P. Hill; [etc., etc.], 1807), by Patrick Graham and William Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phingaleis, sive Hibernia liberata, epicum Ossianis poema, e celtico sermone conversum, (Edinburgi, J. Moir, 1820), by James Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ossian's Fingal; an ancient epic poem, in six books, rendered into English verse. (London, Cadell and Davies, 1814), by James Macpherson and George Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le truquage : altérations, fraudes et contrefaçons dévoilées / (Paris : E. Rouveyre, [1903]), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The posthumous works of Laurence Sterne ... [The Koran: or, The life, character, and sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno, M.N.A. or Master of No Arts. Vol. 1-2] (London, T. Cadell, 1794), by Richard Griffith, Richard Griffith, and Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals forged in the XVth century ... (London, Diprose & Bateman, 1878), by John Wilson Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and upon the fables of Aesop : also, Epistola ad Joannem Millium / (London : J. Macpherson, 1836), by Richard Bentley and Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• De idololatria literaria liber singularis. (Hanoverae, Haer. B.N. Foerster et Fil., 1738), by Joannes Christophorus Koecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen zu Urkundenfälschungen des Mittelalters, (Freiburg i. B. : Herder, 1919), by Wilhelm Maria Peitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poddi︠e︡lki rukopiseĭ i narodnykh pi︠e︡sen. ([S.-Peterburg, Tip. M. M. Stasi︠u︡levicha], 1898), by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Pypin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and bookmen, (London, New York, [etc] Longmans, Green, and co., 1913), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books and bookmen, (London : Longmans, Greens, and Co., 1892), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peregrinus Proteus : an investigation into certain relations subsisting between De Morte Peregrini, the two epistles of Clement to the Corinthians, the epistle of Diognetus, the bibliotheca of Photius, and other writings / (Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1879), by J. M. Cotterill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manoscritti inediti di Torquato Tasso : ed altri pregevoli documenti per servire alla biografia del medesimo : posseduti ed illustrati dal Conte Mariano Alberti / (Lucca : Dalla Tipografia Giusti, 1837), by Mariano Alberti and Romualdo Gentilucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirchliche fälschungen / (Berlin : Schwetschke und Sohn, 1899-1911), by Friedrich von Thudichum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, in zwei Bänden. (Berlin, W. Hertz, 1885-86), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts. (Berlin, W. Hertz, 1873-1874), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les falsifications bolognaises : reliures et livres / (Paris : H. Leclerc, 1903), by Henry Harrisse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Carter-Pollard disclosures. (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934), by Gabriel Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Untersuchungen zu urkundenfälschungen des mittelalters, (Freiburg im Breisgau [etc.] Herder, 1919), by Wilhelm Maria Peitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le truquage; altérations, fraudes et contrefaçons dévoilées. (Paris, Librairie Molière, [190-?]), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous literary impostures; a series of essays. (London, Allen, [1884?]), by Henry Riddell Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance philosophique de Caillot Duval, (A Nancy, Chez les marchands de Nouveautés, 1795), by A. Fortia de Piles and Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The queen's court manuscript with other ancient Bohemian poems. (London, Bell, 1852), by Václav Alois Svoboda, Josef Lind, and Albert Henry Wratislaw, trans. by Albert Henry Wratislaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice sur les manuscrits autographs de Champollion le jeune, perdus en l'année 1832, et retrouvés en 1840. (Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1842), by M. Champollion-Figeac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le truquage; altérations, fraudes et contrefaçons dévoilées. 4 mille. (Paris, Rouveyre, [1903]), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sterne inédit. Le Koran. Oeuvres posthumes complètes. (Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1853), by Richard Griffith, Alfred Hédouin, Richard Griffith, and Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton : with an essay on the Rowley poems by Walter W. Skeat, and a memoir by Edward Bell / (London, Eng. : Bell and Daldy, 1871), by Thomas Chatterton, Edward Bell, and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Koran: or, Essays, sentiments, characters, and callimachies, of Tri juncta in uno, M.N.A. or Master of no arts. (Vienna, Printed for R. Sammer, 1798), by Richard Griffith, Richard Griffith, and Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schrift Origo gentis romanae : mit einer Abhandlung über ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Zitatenfälschungen des griechischen und römischen Altertums und mit Anmerkungen / (Leipzig : B.G. Teubner, 1912), by Hermann Peter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les grandes mystifications littéraires. 2. sér. (Paris, Plon, 1913), by Augustin Thierry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mystifications: littéraires et théatrales. (Paris, Fontemoing, 1913), by Albert Cim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of fictitious names: being a guide to authors, chiefly in the lighter literature of the XIXth century, who have written under assumed names, and to literary forgers, impostors, plagiarists, and imitators, (London, J. R. Smith, 1868), by Ralph Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avventurieri della penna del seicento: Gregorio Leti, Giovanni Gerolamo Arconati Lamberti, Tomaso Tomasi, Bernardo Guasconi. (Firenze, Le Monnier, [1923]), by Luigi Fassò (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The profession of journalism : accuracy in the news ; an address before the Pulitzer School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, delivered at Earl Hall, December 16, 1912. (New York : The World, 1912), by Ralph Pulitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannis Alberti Fabri, Decas decadum; sive, Plagiariorum & pseudonymorum centuria, accessit Exercitatio de lexicis græcis eodem auctore. (Lipsiæ, sumptibus hered. F. Lanckischii, Halis Saxonum literis Salfeldianis, 1689), by Johann Albert Fabricius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and The fables of Æsop. (Berlin, S. Calvary, 1874), by Richard Bentley, Alexander Dyce, and Wilhelm Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vindication of Bishop Cleaver's edition of the Decretum Lacedæmoniorum contra Timotheum, from the strictures of R.P. Knight, esq., (London, Printed by J. Nichols and son, [1821]), by Thomas Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enthüllungen über den Simonides-Dindorfschen Uranios : zu einem Geschichtsabriss über Simonides, den Hermastext und das Leipzig-Berliner Palimpsest erweiterte, sowie mit Berichten und paläographischen Erläuterungen Prof. Tischendorfs u. Anderer vermehrte Auflage / (Leipzig : C. L. Fritzsche, 1856), by Alexandros Lykourgos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natur und kunst, fortsetzung von Kunst und moral; briefwechsel zwischen William Shakespeare und Madame Gâches-Sarraute, docteur en médecine à Paris, nach authentischen quellen (Zürich, Schmidt, 1904), by Herbert Barbaros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ältesten denkmäler der böhmischen sprache: Libuša's gericht, Evangelium Johannis, der Leitmeritzer stiftungsbrief, Glossen der Mater verborum, (Prag, In commission bei Kronberger und Riwnac, 1840), by Václav Hanka, Václav Alois Svoboda, and František Palacký, ed. by Pavel Jozef Šafárik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes mystifications littéraires ... (Paris, Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1911), by Augustin Thierry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Temora: an epic poem of Ossian, in eight cantos, (Perth, Printed by R. Morison, for the author, 1818), by James Macpherson and Thomas Travers Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamburg-Bremen und Nordost-Europa vom 9. bis 11. Jahrhundert; kritische Untersuchungen zur hamburgischen Kirchengeschichte des Adam von Bremen, zu Hamburger Urkunden und zur nordischen und wendischen Geschichte, mit 2 Lichtdrucktafeln, (Leipzig, Dieterich, 1918), by Bernhard Schmeidler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunst und moral; briefwechsel zwischen William Shakespeare und Madame Gâches-Sarraute ... (Zurich, Schmidt, 1903), by Herbert Barbaros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts / (Berlin : Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1858), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The claims of Ossian examined and appreciated: an essay on the Scottish and Irish poems published under that name; in which the question of their genuineness and historical credit is freely discussed: together with some curious particulars relative to the structure and state of poetry in the Celtic dialects of Scotland and Ireland. (Swansea, Printed for the author, 1825), by Edward Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca hispana vetus, sive, Hispani scriptores qui ab Octaviani Augusti æevo ad annum Christi M.D. floruerunt. (Matriti, apud viduam et heredes D.J. Ibarræ, 1788), by Nicolás Antonio, Bishop of Cremona Liudprand, Bishop of Saragossa Maximus, Jeronimo Roman de la Higuera, and Francisco Peres Rayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on literary impostures / (London : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 1858), by H. W. Freeland and H. W. Freeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannis Trithemii ... Primae partis opera historica, qvotqvot hactenu s reperiri potuerunt, omnia: partim e vetvstis fvgientibusque editioni bus reuocata, & ad fidem archetyporum castigata; partim ex manuscriptis nunc primùm edita ... (Francofvrti, typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marninum & heredes Ioan nis Aubrij, 1601), by Johannes Trithemius, Marquard Freher, and Hunibaldus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy; the story of a strange life 1752-1770, (New York, Moffat, Yard & company, 1908), by Charles Edward Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literarische Fälschungen, (Leipzig, T. Thomas, 1907), by James Anson Farrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mystificateurs et mystifiés : histoires comiques / (Paris : E. Dentu, [1875?]), by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ältesten Denkmäler der böhmischen Sprache : Libusǎ's Gericht, Evangelium Johannis, der Leitmeritzer Stiftungsbrief, Glossen der Mater verborum, kritisch beleuchtet / (Prag : In Commission bei Kronberger und Riwnać, 1840), by Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Václav Hanka, Václav Alois Svoboda, and František Palacký (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poems of Ossian, (New York, E. Kearny, [1846?]), by James Macpherson and Hugh Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jonson and Drummond, their Conversations, a few remarks on an 18th century forgery, (Oxford, B. Blackwell, 1925), by Charles Lewis Stainer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les mystifications de Caillot-Duval; avec un choix de ses lettres les plus étonnantes, suivies des résponses de ses victimes. (Paris, Chez R. Pincebourde, 1864), by A. Fortia de Piles, Lorédan Larchey, and Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa / (Paris : J. Maisonneuve, 1882), by Jean Parisot, Lucien Adam, and A. Dejouy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts / (Berlin : W. Hertz, 1893-1894), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books and bookmen [essays] (London, New York : Longmans, Green, 1892), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Reichenauer urkundenfälschungen ... (Heidelberg, Winter, 1890), by Karl Brandi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le taensa n'a pas été forgé de toutes pièces; (Paris, Maisonneuve frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue taensa avec textes traduits et commentés, (Paris, Maisonneuve et cie, 1882), by J. Parisot, Lucien Adam, and A. Dejouy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réplique à Mr. D.G. Brinton au sujet de son article "Linguistique Américaine" / (Paris : [s.n.], 1888), by Albert S. Gatschet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and motives of literary forgeries, (Oxford : Blackwell ; London, Simpkin, Marshall, 1891), by E. K. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• La langue taensa. ([Paris, 1886]), by Julien Vinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• "La guzla" de Prosper Mérimée, étude dh̕istoire romantique; (Paris, Hachette et cie, 1911), by Vojislav Mate Jovanović (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures and miscellanies / (London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857), by Humphry William Freeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latin pseudepigrapha, a study in literary attributions, (Baltimore, 1945), by Evelyn Holst Clift (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and The fables of Æsop. (London, G. Bell & sons, 1883), by Richard Bentley and Alexander Dyce, ed. by Wilhelm Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supercheries littéraires, pastiches, suppositions d'auteur, dans les lettres et dans les arts. (London, N. Trübner & cie., 1872), by Octave Delepierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes mystifications littéraires. Deuxième série. (Paris, Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1913), by Gilbert Augustin Thierry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and bookmen, (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1887, 1899 printing), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• "La guzla" de Prosper Mérimée : les origines du livre, ses sources, sa fortune; étude d'histoire romantique. (Grenoble : Allier fréres, 1910), by Vojislav Mate Jovanović (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Une fabrique de faux autographes : ou récit de l'affaire Vrain Lucas / (Paris : L. Techener, 1870), by Henri Léonard Bordier and Emile Mabille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ossian in Germany : bibliography, general survey, Ossian's influence upon Klopstock and the Bards (New York : AMS Press, 1966 [©1901]), by Rudolf Tombo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books and bookmen, (New York, G. J. Coombes, 1886), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le truquage : les contrefaçons dévoilées. (Paris : E. Dentu, 1887), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bvreardi Gotthelffii Strvvii Introdvctio in notitiam rei litterariæ et vsvm bibliothecarvm. (Francofvrti et Lipsiæ, apud Ernestum Clavdivm Bailliar, 1729), by Burkhard Gotthelf Struve, Michael Lilienthal, and Johann Christoph Colerus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Rimbaud forgery; the affair of La chasse spirituelle, with unpublished documents and an anthology of Rimbaldian pastiches. (Saint Louis [Committee on Publications, Washington University], 1956), by Bruce Morrissette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facsimiles & forgeries : a guide to a timely exhibition in the William L. Clements Library. (Ann Arbor : [s.n.], 1950), by William L. Clements Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ossian's Fingal : Episches Gedicht in sechs Gesängen / (Leipzig : P. Reclam, [1900-1908?]), by James Macpherson and Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Några "Scripta supposititia" i deras betydelse för värdesättningen av kvinnan / (Helsingfors : Helsingfors Centraltryckeri o. Bokbinderi, 1915), by Hjalmar Crohns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and bookmen ... (London, Longmans, Green, 1899), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Questions de littérature légale. Du plagiat, de la supposition d'auteurs, des supercheries qui ont rapport aux livres. (Paris, Impr. de Crapelet, 1828), by Charles Nodier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facsimiles & forgeries : a guide to a timely exhibition in the William L. Clements library. (Ann Arbor : [The Ann Arbor press], 1934), by William L. Clements Library and Howard Mumford Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary forgeries, (London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, Longmans, Green, and co., 1907), by James Anson Farrer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poddi͡elki rukopiseĭ i narodnykh pi͡esen. (S. Peterburg, [Ann Arbor, Mich., 1898, 1963]), by A. N. Pypin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libǔsin soud domnělá nejstarší památka řeči české jest podvržen též zlomek Evangelium Sv. Jana. (Ve Vídni. Nákladem spisovalelovým, 1879), by Alois Vojtěch Šembera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supercheries littéraires: pastiches, suppositions d'auteurs dans les lettres et dans les arts (in French), by Octave Delepierre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, Erster Band (von 2) (in German), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les mystifications de Caillot-Duval: Choix de ses lettres les plus amusantes avec les réponses de ses victimes (in French), by Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu and A. Fortia de Piles, ed. by Lorédan Larchey (Gutenberg ebook)
• "La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée (in French), by Vojislav Mate Jovanović (Gutenberg ebook)
• The church history clear'd from the Roman forgeries and corruptions found in the councils and Baronius in four parts : from the beginning of Christianity, to the end of the fifth general council, 553 / by Thomas Comber ... (London : Printed for Samuel Roycroft, for Robert Clavell ..., 1695), by Thomas Comber (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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