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 Fabricated newspapers, forged newspapers, reprints of newspapers for unknown or for evident reasons have not given the historian serious concern, however much they may have deceived the uncritical.

A still further variant of the forged newspaper is the alleged 'reprint'. This is illustrated in the volume called Reprints of The Times and other early English Newspapers. It is found somewhat frequently in England and in America, and the various parts are also believed to have been sold separately. It comprises eighteen articles, ten of them documents such as the "Declaration of American Independence, "and eight purporting to be reprints of various numbers of The Times, ranging from 1793 to 1821. A careful examination that has been made of these documents shows that they are neither reprints nor facsimiles, but altered copies of original documents, papers purporting to be copies of original newspapers that never existed, and compilations from genuine newspapers but in no sense reprints.