02837cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000060010610000300011224500330014226400510017530000470022633600260027333700260029933800360032550000310036150801850039252016770057753400600225465300420231465300270235665300360238385600490241985600430246877977UtSlPG20260610134816.0mcr n260607r20261868utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aZ1 aHamst, Olphar,d1840-192610aHandbook of fictitious names 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-18  adeaurider, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Handbook of fictitious names" by Olphar Hamst is a bibliographical reference work written in the late 19th century. It catalogs authors who wrote under assumed names—along with forgers, impostors, and imitators—linking pseudonyms to real identities and offering brief, often pointed notes, sources, and cross-references.

The opening of the work presents a transcriber’s note on editorial conventions, followed by notices about an earlier pamphlet on the bibliographer Joseph-Marie Quérard, a dedication to his memory, and epigraphs on literary fraud. A substantial preface explains the book’s novelty in English, its dependence on continental models, its broad scope beyond Britain, and its practical aims; it sets out rules of arrangement (alphabetical by pseudonym), defines “pseudonymous” versus “anonymous,” and introduces a taxonomy of labels (e.g., initialism, titlonym, phrenonym, geonym, demonym), while inviting reader contributions and lamenting the lack of Anglo‑American copyright. A contents list precedes the main entries, which begin immediately—running from A into C—and illustrate the method: each pseudonym is matched to a real name with publication details, asides, and sources, covering figures from Goldsmith, Dickens, and the Brontës to obscure pamphleteers and periodical writers. The sample also includes brief case notes on plagiarism and imposture (e.g., Chatterton, Burke’s Bolingbroke pastiche) and longer illustrative commentary (as in the Robinson Crusoe entry), showing the blend of bibliography, anecdote, and critique that characterizes the compilation’s start. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: John Russell Smith, 1868  aLiterary forgeries and mystifications  aAnonyms and pseudonyms  aAnonyms and pseudonyms, English4 uhttps://archive.org/details/cu3192402954390140uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77977