On 6 April 1824, the novel Walladmor is fraudulently marketed at the Leipzig book fair as a German translation of Walter Scott; in October, Thomas De Quincey exposes but also perpetuates the hoax. Image: Image of Thomas De Quincey, from Project Gutenberg's Modern English Books of Power, by George Hamlin Fitch.

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