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Sketches of Hull celebrities; or, Memoirs and correspondence of Alderman Thomas Johnson, (who was twice mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull,) and four of his lineal descendents, from the year 1640 to 1858.
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The whole compiled and arranged for publication by Mr. William A. Gunnell, from ancient mss. furnished him by the last surviving member of the Johnson family. To which is added a voluminous glossary ...
"The book "Sketches of Hull Celebrities", purporting to be an edition by William A[nderson] Gunnell of papers written by various Hull dignitaries of former periods including "Alderman Thomas Johnson, (Who was twice Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull,)" (thus on the book's title page), is in fact a forgery. Philip Whitting, in his "Coins, Tokens and Medals of the East Riding of Yorkshire" (1969), reports that this "long, turgid and wilfully misleading forgery" was exposed in 1893. Whitting cites as authority for this fact A. G. Dickens and K. A. MacMahon's "A Guide to Regional Studies on the East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Hull" (1956), p. 48; I haven't seen this source myself, but I can vouch for the fact that the text of "Sketches of Hull Celebrities" contains anachronistic language which makes it extremely unlikely that the "texts" of which it purports to be an "edition" were written at the dates they are said to have been."--email to Bodleian Library from Peter Gilliver, Associate Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, December 2008.
"The book "Sketches of Hull Celebrities", purporting to be an edition by William A[nderson] Gunnell of papers written by various Hull dignitaries of former periods including "Alderman Thomas Johnson, (Who was twice Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull,)" (thus on the book's title page), is in fact a forgery. Philip Whitting, in his "Coins, Tokens and Medals of the East Riding of Yorkshire" (1969), reports that this "long, turgid and wilfully misleading forgery" was exposed in 1893. Whitting cites as authority for this fact A. G. Dickens and K. A. MacMahon's "A Guide to Regional Studies on the East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Hull" (1956), p. 48; I haven't seen this source myself, but I can vouch for the fact that the text of "Sketches of Hull Celebrities" contains anachronistic language which makes it extremely unlikely that the "texts" of which it purports to be an "edition" were written at the dates they are said to have been."--email to Bodleian Library from Peter Gilliver, Associate Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, December 2008.