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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. Most of the rare books featured in the exhibition and the catalogue have been fully digitized by University of Alberta Library or by our colleagues in other libraries. These digital versions of the numbered exhibition items can be viewed by anyone and easily found using the links below.

1. [Miguel de Luna.] Historia verdadera del rey Don Rodrigo en el qual se trata la causa principal de la perdida de España, y la conquista que della hizo Miramamolin Almançor, rey que fue del Africa, y de las Arabias, y vida del rey Jacob Almançor. Falsely claims to be translated from old Arabic. Seventh ed., Madrid, Gabriel de Leon, [1675]. Peel library: DP 106 L96 1675. Link to 1646 edition digitized by the National Library of Naples.

2. An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan: Giving an Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, & c. of the Inhabitants: Together with a Relation of what Happen'd to the Author in his Travels. Falsely claims to be “by George Psalmanazar, a native of said island, now in London.” Printed for Dan Brown et al, 1704. Peel library: DS 799.652 P97 1704. Link to first edition digitized by Duke University Library. 

3. Memoirs of * * * * : Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa. London, Printed for the Executrix, 1764. Peel library: CT 788 P97 A4 1764. Link to 2nd edition digitized by University of Toronto Library. 

4. [James Macpherson]. Temora, An Ancient Epic Poem, in Eight Books: Together with Several Other Poems, Composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal. Falsely claims to be translated from the Gaelic Language by James Macpherson. London, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763. Peel library: PR 3544 A5 1763. Link to an early edition digitized by the National Library of Scotland. 

5. [Horace Walpole.] The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Falsely claims to be “translated by William Marshal, Gent.; from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.” London, Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV. Peel library: PR 3757 W2 C3 1765b. Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library.

6. [Horace Walpole.] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story. Second ed., London, Printed for William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765. Peel library: PR 3757 W2 C3 1765. Link to second edition digitized by University of Alberta Library.

7. [Thomas Chatterton.] Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the Fifteenth Century. An anonymous preface lays out some details, but leaves it to “the unprejudiced and intelligent reader” to decide “whether the poems be really antient [sic], or modern; the compositions of Rowley, or the forgeries of Chatterton” (xii). London, Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777. Peel library: PR 3340 A5 T8 1777. Link to first edition digitized by John Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries.

8. [Thomas Chatterton.] Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the Fifteenth Century. Third edition, with original anonymous preface, but to which is added an appendix, “containing some observations upon the language of these poems; tending to prove that they were written, not by any ancient author, but entirely by Thomas Chatterton.” London, T. Payne and Son, 1778. Peel library: PR 3340 A5 T8 1778. Link to third edition digitized by Getty Research Institute. 

9. Thomas Chatterton. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the Supposed Author of the Poems [Published] Under the Names of Rowley, Canning, &c. Preface signed “J.B.,” London, Fielding and Walker, 1778. Peel library: PR 3340 A5 B8 1778. Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library.

10. Horace Walpole. A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton. Strawberry Hill, Printed by T. Kirgate, 1779. Peel library: PR 3343 W22 1779. Link to edition digitized by John Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries.

11. [William Beckford.] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. [Translated from French by Samuel Henley.] London, J. Johnson, 1786. Peel library: PR 4091 V34 E5 1786. Link to 1786 edition digitized by University of Alberta Library.

12. [William Henry Ireland.] Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare: Including the Tragedy of King Lear and a Small Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original Mss. in the Possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk Street. London, Mr Egerton, Messrs White, Messrs Leigh and Sotheby, Mr Robson, Mr Faulder, and Mr Sael, 1796. Peel library: PR 2950 A2 1796 folio. Link to 1796 edition digitized by Boston Public Library.

  1. Samuel Ireland. Mr. Ireland's Vindication of His Conduct, Respecting the Publication of the Supposed Shakspeare MSS. London, Published by Mr Faulder, Mr Robson, Mr Egerton, and Messrs White, 1796. [PR 2950 M253 I665 1796] Link to 1796 edition digitized by Boston Public Library: https://archive.org/details/mrirelandsvindic00irel/page/n7/mode/2up
  2. [William Henry Ireland.] Vortigern, an Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts: Represented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and Henry the Second, an Historical Drama. London, J. Barker, B. White, T. Egerton, and R. Faulder, 1799. [PR 2950 A4 1799] Link to 1799 edition digitized by John Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries: https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_6065896/page/n13/mode/2up
  3. Anonymous. Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare’s Plays from Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632 in the Possession of John Payne Collier, Esq, FSA. Introduction by John Payne Collier, New York, Redfield, 1853. [PR 2753 C692 1853b] Link to this edition digitized by the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/31009186/
  4. J. Payne Collier. Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published from Collier’s handwritten notes, with a list of emendations and a preface by J. Payne Collier. [PR 2899 C95 1856] Link to 1856 edition digitized by University of Michigan Library: https://archive.org/details/acv8819.0001.001.umich.edu/page/n7/mode/2up
  5. H. Buxton Forman. The Shelley Library: An Essay in Bibliography. London, Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. The Shelley Society's Publications, 4th series, Miscellaneous No. 1. [PR 5428 F72] Link to 1886 edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/shelleylibraryes00form
  6. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. 1822. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Reprint ed., London, Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. The Shelley Society’s Publications, 2nd series, No. 2. [PR 5410 A1 1886] Link to 1886 edition digitized by University of California Libraries:  https://archive.org/details/drahellaslyrical00shelrich/page/n7/mode/2up 
  7. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue, with Other Poems. 1819. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. Facsimile ed., London, Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1888. The Shelley Society's Publications, 2nd series, No. 17. [PR 5419 A1 1888] Link to 1888 edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/rosalindhelenmod00shel_0
  8. Thomas Wise, editor. Review of Hogg's Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff by Percy Bysshe Shelley together with an Extract from Some Early Writings of Shelley by Professor E. Dowden. London, Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. The Shelley Society's Publications, 2nd series, No. 2. [PR 4793 H4 M53 S54 1886] Link to the 1813 novel digitized by Google from Oxford University Library: https://archive.org/details/memoirsprinceal00haimgoog/page/n7/mode/2up, or link to 1886 Shelley Society reprint digitized by University of California Libraries: https://archive.org/details/reviewofhoggsmem00shelrich/page/n5/mode/2up
  9. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Two Poems. London, Chapman and Hall, 1854. [PR 4190 T8 1854]  Link to 1854 edition digitized by Harold B Lee Library: https://archive.org/details/twopoems00brow/mode/2up
  10. Robert Browning. “Cleon.” Men and Women. Vol. II. London, Chapman and Hall, 1855. p.171-189. This legitimate publication is the source text for the Forman and Wise forgery. [PR 4214 A1 1855 v.1-2] 
  11. Robert Browning. Cleon. A forgery by Forman and Wise, falsely attributed to publisher E. Moxton and falsely backdated to 1855. [PR 4222 C63 1855] Link to Forman and Wise forgery digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/cleon00brow/page/n1/mode/2up
  12. Charles Dickens. “To Be Read at Dusk.” Story edited by Countess Blessington. The Keepsake, 1852, p.117-131. This legitimate publication is the source text for the Forman and Wise forgery. [AY 13 K26 1852] Link to excerpt from The Keepsake (1852) digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/bp_10095541/mode/2up
  13. Charles Dickens. To Be Read at Dusk. London. A forgery by Forman and Wise, probably created in 1891 and falsely backdated to 1852. [PR 4572 T6 1852] Link to Forman and Wise forgery digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/tobereadatdusk00dick/page/n13/mode/2up
  14. [Mary Ann Evans.] Agatha by George Eliot (Evans’s pseudonym). A forgery by Forman and Wise, falsely attributed to Trübner & Co of London and dated 1869. [PR 4666 A73 1889] Link to the Forman and Wise forgery digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/agatha00elio or to the American forgery digitized by University of California Libraries: https://archive.org/details/agathageorge00eliorich/page/n3/mode/2up 
  15. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Dead Love. A forgery by Forman and Wise, falsely attributed to John W. Parker & Son of London, 1864. [PR 5510 D27 1864] Link to the Forman and Wise forgery digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/deadlove00swin/page/n1/mode/2up
  16. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Ballad of Bulgarie. A pirated edition published by Wise. London, Printed for private circulation, 1893. [PR 5506 B15 1893]
  17. Rod MacLeod. All True Things: A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008. Bound by Alexander McGuckin, University of Alberta Press, 2008. [LE 3 A57 M225 2008]
  18. Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. Celsi de medicina libri octo. Patavii, printed by Josephus Cominus, 1722. [R 127 C39 1722]
  19. James Northcote. One Hundred Fables. James Northcote’s illustrations were printed from wood engravings made by William Harvey. London, Geo. Lawford, 1828. [PN 982 N85 1828]
  20. [Archie Belaney.] The Men of the Last Frontier by Grey Owl (Belaney’s false Indigenous identity). London, Country Life, 1931. [FC 3205.3 G84 1931]. Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/menoflastfrontie00grey_0/page/n9/mode/2up
  21. [Archie Belaney.] Pilgrims of the Wild by Wa-sha-quon-asin / Grey Owl (Belaney’s false Indigenous identity). London, Lovat Dickson, 1934. [PS 8513 R45 Z6 1934] Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/pilgrimsofwild00grey/page/n7/mode/2up
  22. [Archie Belaney.] The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People by Grey Owl / Wa-sha-quon-asin (Belaney’s false Indigenous identity). Illustrated by Belaney. London, Lovat Dickson and Thompson, 1935. [PR 8513 R45 A24 1935] Link to sixth printing of first British edition, dated 1937, digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/adventuresofsajo00grey/page/n9/mode/2up
  23. [Archie Belaney.] Tales of an Empty Cabin by Wa-sha-quon-asin / Grey Owl (Belaney’s false Indigenous identity). Toronto, Macmillan, 1936. [FC 3367.3 G84 1936b] Link to 1936 edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/talesofemptycabi00grey/page/n7/mode/2up
  24. [Archie Belaney.] The Tree by Wa-sha-quon-asin / Grey Owl (Belaney’s false Indigenous identity). Story reprinted from Tales of an Empty Cabin. Illustrated by Belaney. London, Lovat Dickson, 1937, and Toronto, Macmillan, 1937. [PS 8513 R45 T7 1937] Link to 1937 edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/tree00grey/page/n7/mode/2up
  25. The Day of the Bison Hunt: An American Indian Camp. Westminster, London, Bancroft and Co., c1962. Printed in Czechoslovakia. [E 77.4 D39 1962 folio
  26. [Winnifred Eaton.] Miss Numè: A Japanese-American Romance by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style alias/pseudonym). Chicago and NY, Rand McNally, 1899. [PS 8485 E26 M67 1899] Link to author’s presentation copy digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/missnumofjapanja00wata/page/n7/mode/2up
  27. [Winnifred Eaton.] A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style alias/pseudonym). New York and London, Harper Bros, 1901. [PS 8485 E26 J3] Link to 1904 edition digitized by University of Toronto’s Robarts Library: https://archive.org/details/japanesenighting00watauoft
  28. [Winnifred Eaton.] The Wooing of Wistaria by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style alias/pseudonym). New York and London, Harper and Bros, 1902. [PS 8485 E26 W92] Link to 1902 edition digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/wooingofwistaria00wata/mode/2up
  29. [Winnifred Eaton.] The Heart of Hyacinth by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style alias/pseudonym). New York and London, Harper Bros, 1903. [PS 8485 E26 H4] Link to 1903 edition digitized by University of Toronto’s Robarts Library: https://archive.org/details/heartofhyacinth00watauoft/page/n7/mode/2up
  30. [Winnifred Eaton.] Daughters of Nijo, A Romance of Japan by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style alias/pseudonym). New York and London, Macmillan, 1904. [PS 8485 E26 D2] Link to 1904 edition digitized by York University Libraries: https://archive.org/details/daughtersofnijo00wata
  31. [Winnifred Eaton.] The Love of Azalea by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style alias/pseudonym). New York, Dodd Mead, 1904. [PS 8485 E26 L8] Link to A.L. Burt edition digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/loveofazalea00wata/page/n5/mode/2up
  32. [Winnifred Eaton.] Me: A Book of Remembrance. Published anonymously with an introduction by Jean Webster, New York, The Century Co., 1915. [PS 8485 E26 M4 1915] The copy housed in the Peel library has a handwritten note that incorrectly identifies Jean Webster as the author. Link to first edition digitized by University of California Libraries: https://archive.org/details/mebookofremembra00wataiala/mode/2up
  33. [Sara Eaton and Winnifred Eaton.] Marion: The Story of An Artist’s Model by Herself and the Author of Me (i.e., the anonymous author positions herself as the central character in this fictional memoir and the author of a mysterious memoir titled Me: A Book of Remembrance). Illustrated by Henry Hutt. New York, W.J. Watt and Co, 1916. [PS 8485 E26 M37 1916] Link to copy digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/marionstoryofart00wata/page/n7/mode/2up
  34. [Winnifred Eaton.] A Japanese Blossom by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style pseudonym/identity). New York, Harper and Brothers, 1906. [PS 8485 E26 J35] Link to copy digitized by University of California Libraries: https://archive.org/details/japaneseblossom00wataiala/mode/2up
  35. [Winnifred Eaton.] The Diary of Delia; Being a Veracious Chronicle of the Kitchen, with some Side-lights on the Parlour by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style pseudonym/identity). London and New York, Doubleday Page, 1907. [PS 8485 E26 D53 1907] Link to copy digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeliabein00wata/mode/2up
  36. [Winnifred Eaton.] Tama by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style pseudonym/identity). New York & London, Harper and Bros, 1910. [PS 8485 E26 T15] Link to copy digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/tama00wata/page/n7/mode/2up
  37. [Winnifred Eaton.] The Honorable Miss Moonlight by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style pseudonym/identity). New York and London, Harper Bros, 1912. [PS 8485 E26 H7] Link to copy digitized by University of Toronto’s Robarts Library: https://archive.org/details/honorablemissmoo00watauoft
  38. [Winnifred Eaton.] Sunny-San by Onoto Watanna (Eaton’s Japanese-style pseudonym/identity). New York, George H. Doran, 1922. [PS 8485 E26 S95] Link to the Canadian edition digitized by University of Toronto’s Robarts Library: https://archive.org/details/sunnysan00watauoft
  39. [Winnifred Eaton.] Cattle by Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna). Toronto, Musson, 1923. [PS 8485 E26 C3] Link to American edition digitized by the Library of Congress: https://archive.org/details/cattle00wata_0/page/n5/mode/2up
  40. [Jane Austen.] Sense and Sensibility: A Novel by a Lady. 3 vols. London, T. Egerton, 1811. Housed in a special box made by Edmonton bookbinder Alex McGuckin. [PR 4034 S47 1811 v.1-3] Link to first edition digitized by Duke University Libraries: https://archive.org/details/sensesensibility131aust/page/n6/mode/2up
  41. [Jane Austen.] Pride and Prejudice: A Novel in Three Volumes by the author of Sense and Sensibility. 3 vols. London, T. Egerton, 1813. [PR 4034 P94 1813 v.1-3] Housed in a special box made by Edmonton bookbinder Alex McGuckin. Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/prideprejudiceno00aust_1/page/n7/mode/2up
  42. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Revised, illustrated, and corrected with a new introduction by the author. London, Colburn and Bentley, 1831. [PR 5397 F82 1831a] Link to first and third editions digitized for the Hathi Trust: https://archive.org/details/maryshelleyfrankenstein1/page/n7/mode/2up and https://archive.org/details/shelleyfrankenstein3ed/page/n5/mode/2up
  43. [Eric Arthur Blair.] Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1933. [PR 6029 R98 D7 1933b]
  44. [Margaret Saunders.] Beautiful Joe, An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders (Margaret Saunders’ pseudonym). Philadelphia, Charles H. Banes, 1894. [PZ 7 S257 B3 1894] Link to copy digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/beautifuljoeauto00saun_0/page/n7/mode/2up
  45. [Daniel Defoe.] Reflections Upon the Late Great Revolution / Written by a Lay-hand in the Country for the Satisfaction of Some Neighbours. London, Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose & Crown, MDCLXXXIX. Peel library copy bound with another anonymous pamphlet entitled Some Considerations Succession and Allegiance. [DA 452 D32 1689] Link to copy digitized by Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_reflections-upon-the-lat_defoe-daniel_1689/page/n1/mode/2up
  46. [Daniel Defoe.] The Succession to the Crown of England, Considered. London, 1701. [DA 463 1701 D314] Link to copy digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/successiontocrow00defo/page/n7/mode/2up
  47. [Daniel Defoe.] Peace without Union: By Way of Reply to Sir H--- M---'s Peace at Home. London, 1703. [DA 370 M173 D32 1703] Link to copy digitized by Lehigh University Libraries: https://archive.org/details/peace-without-union/mode/2up
  48. Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman: A Satire. 1701. New, corrected edition. London, William Lane, 1786. [PR 3404 T7 1786] Link to the 1701 edition digitized from microfilm: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-true-born-englishman_defoe-daniel_1701_1/mode/2up or to the 1786 edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/truebornenglishm00defo_0/page/n1/mode/2up
  49. [Daniel Defoe.] The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language, by the Author of The True-Born Englishman. London, Benj. Bragg, 1705. [PR 3404 C75 1705] Link to copy digitized by Boston Public Library: https://archive.org/details/consolidatororme00defo/page/n5/mode/2up
  50. [Daniel Defoe.] Jure Divino, A Satyr. In twelve books. By the Author of The True-Born Englishman. [PR 3404 J95 1706 folio] Link to copy digitized by McGill University Library: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_jure-satyr_twelve_books_PR3404J81706-20172/page/n5/mode/2up
  51. [Daniel Defoe.] The Storm: Or, A Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land. London, Printed for G. Sawbridge and sold by J. Nutt, 1704. [DA 669 D314 1704] Link to copy digitized by John Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries: https://archive.org/details/gpl_1799515/page/n7/mode/2up
  52. [Daniel Defoe.] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, and Strange Surprizing Accounts of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe. Falsely claims to be “written by himself.” Second edition. London, Printed for W. Taylor, 1719. [PR 3403 A1 1719] Link to copy of the third edition of first volume digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: https://archive.org/details/lifestrangesurpr01defo/page/n5/mode/2up or to copy of second edition of the second volume digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/fartheradventure00defo_0/page/n9/mode/2up
  53. [Daniel Defoe.] Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager at the Court of England, Towards the Close of the Last Reign. Wherein Some of the Most Secret Transactions of that Time, Relating to the Interest of the Pretender and a Clandestine Separate Peace, Are Detected and Laid Open. Falsely claims to be “Written by Himself [i.e., Mesnager]. Done out of French.” London, Printed for S. Baker, 1717. [DA 490 D33 1717]  Link to copy digitized by University of California Library: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Minutes_of_the_Negotiations_of_Monsr_Mes.html?id=-Bg8MQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
  54. [Charlotte Brontë.] Jane Eyre, An Autobiography. Falsely claims to be edited by Currer Bell. Vol 1-3. London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1847. [PR 4167 J33 1847 v.1-3] Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/janeeyreautobiog00bron_0/page/n5/mode/2up
  55. [Emily Brontë.] Wuthering Heights. Falsely claims to be “by the author of Jane Eyre.” First American edition. New York, Harper and Bros, 1848. [PR 4172 W9 1848] Link to first American edition digitized by Duke University Libraries: https://archive.org/details/wutheringheights04bron/page/n5/mode/2up
  56. [Anne Brontë.] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Acton Bell. Shows excerpts of reviews facing title page under the misleading headline: “On Mr Bell’s First Novel.” London, T.C. Newby, 1848. [PR 4162 T28 1848b v.1-3] Link to three-volume first edition digitized by University of California Library: Vol.1 (https://archive.org/details/tenantofwildfell01bronrich/page/n9/mode/2up), Vol.2 (https://archive.org/details/tenantofwildfell02bronrich/page/n7/mode/2up), Vol.3 (https://archive.org/details/tenantofwildfell03bronrich/page/n7/mode/2up)
  57. Susanna Moodie. Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada. 2 volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1852. [FC 3067.2 M825 1852a v.1-2] Link to two volumes digitized by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Vol.1 (https://archive.org/details/roughingitinbush01mood/mode/2up); Vol. 2 (https://archive.org/details/roughingitinbush02mood/page/n3/mode/2up)
  58. Susanna Moodie. Roughing It in the Bush, or, Life in Canada. 2 volumes. Publisher’s preface. New York, George P. Putnam, 1852. [FC 3067.2 M825 1852 v.1-2] Link to two volumes digitized by Harvard University Library: Vol.1 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnjy8g&view=1up&seq=5) and Vol. 2 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnjy8h&view=1up&seq=5)
  59. Samuel B. Steele. Forty Years in Canada: Reminiscences of the Great North-West: with Some Account of His Service in South Africa. Edited by Mollie Glen Niblett with an introduction by J.G. Colmer. London, Herbert Jenkins with Canadian subedition by McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart of Toronto, 1915. [FC 3216.3 S7 A4 1915] Link to first edition digitized by University of Alberta Library: https://archive.org/details/fortyyearsincana00stee_0/page/n9/mode/2up and to digital exhibition mounted by Bruce Peel Special Collections: https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/forty/intro
  60. [Ann Radcliffe.] A Sicilian Romance. By the Authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. London, T. Hookham, 1790. [PR 5202 S5 1790 v.1-2] Link to the second edition digitized by the New York Public Library, Vol I: https://archive.org/details/asicilianromanc01radcgoog/page/n8/mode/2up and Vol. II: https://archive.org/details/asicilianromanc00radcgoog/page/n10/mode/2up
  61. [Ann Radcliffe.] The Romance of the Forest; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. By the Authoress of A Sicilian Romance, etc. T. Hookham and J. Carpenter, 1791. [PR 5202 R7 1791 v.1-3] Link to the first volume of the third edition digitized by University of California: https://archive.org/details/romanceofforesti01radciala/page/n5/mode/2up
  62. Anonymous. “The Southern Tower; or, Conjugal Sacrifice, and Retribution.” The Marvelous Magazine and Compendium of Prodigies II, 1 Nov. 1802, p. 3-72. [PR 5202 S5 1802]
  63. Anonymous. The Midnight Assassin: or, Confession of the Monk Rinaldi. Containing a Complete History of His Diabolical Machinations and Unparellelled [sic] Ferocity. Together with a Circumstantial Account of that Scourge of Mankind, the Inquisition, with their Manner of Bringing to Trial those Unfortunate Beings Who are Under their Clutches. London, W. Gilbert, n.d. [PR 5202 M62 1802]
  64. Pauline Johnson. Legends of Vancouver. Vancouver, Privately published, 1911. [PS 8469 O38 L52 1911b]. Link to first edition digitized by University of Toronto Library: https://archive.org/details/legendsofvancouv00johnuoft/page/n7/mode/2up 
  65. Pauline Johnson with Chief Joe Capilano (Sahp-luk) & Mary Agnes Capilano (Lixwelut). Legends of the Capilano. Edited by Alix Shield. University of Manitoba Press, 2023. [Private collection]
  66. The original Book of Kells, an ornate ninth-century devotional manuscript, is housed at Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland, where hundreds of thousands of people annually view it in its display case. The Peel library houses a special limited edition fine art facsimile created in 1990 by Faksimile Verlag Luzern (Switzerland), number 550 of 1480 copies [ND 3359 B7 1990 folio].
  67. The mysterious fifteenth-century manuscript known today as the Voynitch manuscript–written in an unknown script by an unknown author, encrypted from an unknown source language and filled with mysterious “other worldly” scientific illustrations–is housed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Theories abound, but this manuscript has defied all scholarly attempts to crack its code over the centuries, including by the University of Alberta team of computer scientists who attempted to use AI to identify the source language in 2018. The Peel library houses a special limited edition facsimile created in 2017 by Siloé Arte y Bibliofilia (Spain), number 154 of 898 copies [Z 105.5 V65 V69 2017].
  68. Actively used by children from the sixteenth to the early-eighteenth century, a “horn-book” consists of a single printed sheet (showing numbers, the alphabet, etc.) mounted on to a small wooden paddle and covered by a protective translucent sheet made from animal horn. These books were so well used, as John Carter and Nicolas Barker report, that “authentic examples” are “rarer than First Folio Shakespeares,” while fakes abound (126). Andrew White Tuer’s History of the Horn-book (Leadenhall Press, 1896) is accompanied by several horn-books made especially for “those who prefer the thing itself to its pictures” (14). [Z 1033 H8 T9 1896 v.1-2]
  69. A sixteenth-century manuscript record of the ancient sacred teachings of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala, the Popul Vuh survives today in the form of transcriptions, such as the copy made by Dominican priest Francisco Ximénez early in the eighteenth century, now housed at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Book artist Delia Goetz offers us a glimpse of the format of early Mayan manuscripts with the traditional accordion style book she created (in 2003) in which text from the Popul Vuh in the Quiché language is printed on paper made from the bark of the fig tree in the Mayan traditional manner. This is not technically a facsimile edition in that it is not a precise imitation of a surviving original, but it is made to serve a similar function. [F 1465 P8 C74 2003 folio]
  70. The Joshua Roll, a tenth-century scroll with a continuous frieze picturing events from the Book of Joshua, is housed in the Vatican Library. The unique characteristics of the Joshua Roll have inspired extensive scholarship and debate supported in part by a lavish facsimile edition–complete with a modern box designed for both storage and display–created in 1983-1984 by Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (Austria). [ND 3358 J8 J655 1983 folio]. 
  71. Typographia: An Ode on Printing. Reissued in Photographic Facsimile from the Williamsburg Edition of 1730. Roanoke, 1926. [Z232 P25 M37 1926].
  72. Charles Dickens. Mrs Gamp: A Facsimile of the Author’s Prompt Copy. Foreword by Monica Dickens. Introduction by John D. Gordan. New York Public Library, 1956. [PR 4563 A37 1956].
  73. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. [PS 3511 I91 G7 1925]. Link to copy digitized by the library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: https://archive.org/details/greatgatsby00fitz_1/page/n5/mode/2up.
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