Digital Resource: Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates is an exhibition at University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections (September 2025 through March 2026) with an accompanying book/catalogue.
The rare books featured in the catalogue are numbered 1-85, and many of them are on display as part of the exhibition. After the exhibition closes, these rare books will be available for viewing in one of Peel’s reading rooms by appointment. Most can also be viewed digitally (for free) thanks to our colleagues at University of Alberta Library and at other libraries around the world. The links are available here.
Bruce Peel Special Collections is typical of special collections and rare book libraries in North American universities in the twenty-first century, housing no more or less examples of forgery, fakery, and piracy than others.
If you find a dead link, please feel free to email us at bpsc@ualberta.ca so that we can help you get access to the digital book and correct this list.