August 10 – Fortsas hoax: Bibliophiles gather in Binche, Belgium for an auction of 52 unique, meticulously catalogued books from the collection of the late Comte de Fortsas. The Count, the books and the auction all prove fictitious.[4]
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The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early works in English.[5]
William Martin publishes the first edition of Peter Parley's Annual, a periodical imitating earlier American works by Samuel Griswold Goodrich.[6][7]
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon – What is Property? or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernement)
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^(22: 150-158; repr. in The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1869) (London: Smith, Elder & Co.) 15:386)
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^Lease, Benjamin (1972). That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 205. ISBN 0-226-46969-7.
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^Anton Schindler (1840). Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. Aschendorff.
^Flora Tristan; Doris Beik (1993). Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade. Indiana University Press. p. 53. ISBN 0-253-31163-2.
^Frederick William John Hemmings (1970). Émile Zola. Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198812302.
^Mallikarjun Patil (1997). Thomas Hardy: The Poet : a Critical Study. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 1. ISBN 978-81-7156-701-0.
^Marilyn Wood; Rhoda Broughton (1993). Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920): profile of a novelist. Paul Watkins. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-871615-34-0.
^Margaret Anne Doody (6 April 1989). Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-521-36258-0.
^Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1908. p. 79.
^Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1868. p. 259.
^Isabel T. Lublin (1904). Primer of German Literature. Swan Sonnenschein. p. 213.
^Eliza Fenwick (9 October 1998). Secresy - Second Edition. Broadview Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-77048-232-6.