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100 1 _aHamst, Olphar,
_d1840-1926
245 1 0 _aHandbook of fictitious names
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-18
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: John Russell Smith, 1868
653 _aLiterary forgeries and mystifications
653 _aAnonyms and pseudonyms
653 _aAnonyms and pseudonyms, English
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/cu31924029543901
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77977
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