Byron, Lord

The letter from Lord Byron to the publisher Galignani, dated Venice, 27 April 1819, in which he denies his authorship of a work entitled 'The Vampire', is one of the most common and notorious facsimiles. It is of three pages 4to (ca 10 x 8 inches) and our example is watermarked 1828, i.e. four years after the poet's death. It is one of the easiest facsimiles to detect, as the ink is pure black and lies very flat on the page, quite unlike real writing of the time. The illustration shows the first page of the letter

reference:
John Wilson
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