Milford News | 1936-01-09 | Page 7 | 40 Famous "First Editions" are Found to be Forgeries

40 Famous "First Editions" Are Found to Be Forgeries The European book-collecting world received a shock recently when about 40 famous "first editions," edi-tions," which have been accepted as genuine in all standard bibliographies bibliog-raphies for 50 years, were found to be forgeries. In most of them, either the paper or the type or both did not exist at the time the books were supposed to have been printed. And in some cases the text was taken from revised re-vised editions. Collier's.