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Collection: Fakes, Lies and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection

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Forged excerpt of six lines from Catiline, signed 'Ben Jonson', with attestation (also forged) 'Writt for me by my friende Mr B Jonson when I asked him for his hand-writing. John Marston 1612', and later authentification by Thomas Wharton (also forged), saying 'The lines are from his Catiline, Act. 3'

Forged verses 'No Songe No Supper', signed 'B. J.' and inscribed 'To my speciall goode Friende Sr Wm Davenant'; integral address leaf: 'For Sir William Davenant at the Swanne Taverne by Charinge Crosse'

Germanicarum rerum quatuor celebriores vetustioresque chronographi, descriptionem ab orbe conditio usque ad tempora Henrici IIII Imperatoris

A collection of medieval chronicles, beginning with the editio princeps of De vita Caroli Magni et Rolandi, a C11 life of Charlemagne falsely attributed to Turpin, Archbishop of Reims (died. c. 800).

Gulliver revived; or, The vice of lying properly exposed. 7th ed., considerably enlarged, and ornamented with twenty explanatory engravings, from original designs

Incomplete forged manuscript of John Shakespeare's 'Profession of Faith'

Ireland, William Henry. His 'improved' copy of John Camilton, A Discoverie of the Most Secret and Subtile Practises of the Jesuits

Josippi Judische Historien ... new transferirt, und im teutschen vor nie gelesen

The first German, and first vernacular, edition of the Yosippon or Josippon, an account of Jewish history supposedly written either by Josephus or by the Joseph ben Gorion mentioned by him. The authenticity of the work was first questioned by Joseph…

Le réveil de Chyndonax, prince des Vacies druides celtiques dijonois; avec la saincteté, religion, & diversité des cérémonies observées aux anciennes sepultures

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