[Rarebooks] FS: 1887 Fake Washington Portraits book w/Tuxedo Club Tie

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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[Fakes & Frauds] Walter, James.  “Memorials of Washington and of Mary, 
His Mother, and Martha, His Wife, from Letters and Papers of Robert Cary 
and James Sharples”

Published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1887.  John Lovari, 
writing in Karpel, notes- "Apparently an interesting and valuable 
account of Sharples's connection with the Washington family, with 
comments on Robert Fulton and his friendship with Sharples and on the 
two men as artists and scientists. Although this is a seemingly 
plausible and valid description of the book after a first reading of it, 
the work, an abridged version of which had appeared in 1886 under the 
title 'History and Descriptive Details of Middleton's Portraits of Mary, 
the Mother of Washington', ranks with Clifford Irving's recent 
'biography' of Howard Hughes as one of the major hoaxes of the 
publishing world. Walter was attacked on twelve point of plagiarism, 
forgery, and fabrication of evidence by the members of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society". Well, now. Karpel H721.  Hardcover. 6.5"x10", xii + 
362 pages, plus 12 black & white plates; erratum slip; publisher's green 
cloth with black decorations and Washington's coat of arms stamped in 
gilt; slight wear, but overall very nice.

-With the small printed book ticket of the noted American book collector 
Grenville Kane, the bulk of whose Americana and Incunabula collections 
are now at Princeton. In addition to being an important book collector, 
Kane was also a founding member of the Tuxedo Club, a group of wealthy 
New Yorkers who summered together at Tuxedo Park in upstate New York; 
the group was responsible for introducing to American Society the 
new-fangled semi-formal dinner jacket worn at a dinner by the Prince of 
Wales, and naming it the... yes, that's right.  [38584]  $125


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