Title: Works of H.R. and M.S.H. The Prince of Mantua and Montferrat, Prince of Ferrara, Nevers, Réthel, and Alençon. With an introduction by the late Charles Reade, Esq., and M. Victor Hugo […]
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Full title:</b> Works of H.R. and M.S.H. The Prince of Mantua and Montferrat, Prince of Ferrara, Nevers, Réthel, and Alençon. With an introduction by the late Charles Reade, Esq., and M. Victor Hugo; Founded on the Writings of above one hundred Eminent Men, in Review of these Works; and a preface by the late Lord Brougham and Vaux. Illustrated. Third edition.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. lxiv, [iii]-vi, [2], 479, 8, [5], 304, [2], 174, ff. [10] (plates, 2 folded). Signatures: [A]9 B-C8 D11 B-Z8 AA-HH8 II6 B-F8 G4 H4 H9 I-U8 X5 a-b8 c4 d-h8 i4 k-l8 m7. Original green cloth. Containing illustrations, some colored. Bookplate of George Oakley Fisher. Penciled notations on front endpaper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allegedly the third but in fact the first and only edition of an elaborate literary hoax, in which Groom-Napier, having assumed the fictional title of Prince of Mantua and Montferrat, republished his own pseudo-scientific works with sixty-four pages of faked testimonials supposedly written by Victor Hugo, Charles Darwin, and Charles Reade, among many others. See R. Landon, Literary Forgeries and Mystifications. An Exhibition. Toronto, 2003, pp. 61-63; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; and Eric Korn, Remainders from the Times literary supplement, 1980-1989. Manchester, 1989, pp. 7-12, 14.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103456" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>