[DCRM-L] Forgeries and fakes

[Will Evans]

Literary hoaxes?







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Will Evans

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*From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
Behalf Of *Deborah J. Leslie
*Sent:* Friday, April 12, 2013 5:30 PM
*To:* DCRM Users' Group
*Subject:* [DCRM-L] Forgeries and fakes



I'm cataloging the 1855 edition of Shakespeare's works edited by J. Payne
Collier, in which he gives the readings according to a "newly-discovered"
emended copy of the second folio, which later came out that he himself
emended in a forged 17c hand.



I'm looking at the controlled vocabulary for fakery in the printing &
publishing vocabulary. Neither "fakes" nor "forgeries" has a scope note.
http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularies/printing-publishing/tr294.htm



What do I have? The publication isn't itself a forgery--that would be the
copy of the 2nd folio that Collier marked up. Do I have a "fake"?



Information, advice, and musings aloud welcome.



Thanks,

Deborah



Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare
Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003 |
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