[Collection comprising an autograph letter signed by the forger 'Major Byron', together with three examples of his Byron forgeri
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- [Collection comprising an autograph letter signed by the forger 'Major Byron', together with three examples of his Byron forgeri
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[Collection comprising an autograph letter signed by the forger 'Major Byron', together with three examples of his Byron forgeries]
Author: Byron, George G. (George Gordon) (pseud.) de Gibler, George [‘Mayor Byron’]
Year: 1818
This collection, from the Schimmel sale (2012), lot 17, contains, apart from newspaper clippings: [ALS to a suspicious collector], New York, 1849-10-19, 8vo. pp. 3. A letter of the forger himself to a suspicious collector indignantly insisting upon the genuineness of his Byron forgeries, and assailing the ‘unscrupulous malignity’ of John Murray, John Cam Hobhouse, and the Athenaeum, ‘who [have] slandered me’. [Forged Lord Byron ALS to John Murray], “Ravenna”, 1821-10-03, 4to. p. 1. [Forged Lord Byron ALS to Sir Godfrey Webster], “Genua”, 1822-11-28, 4to. pp. 3. [Forged Lord Byron ALS to Richard Hoppner], “Venice”, 1818-11-25, 4to. pp. 3. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.