NMLP P-032871 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
A History of New York (Knickerbocker's History)
Washington Irving (as 'Diedrich Knickerbocker') · Inskeep & Bradford (New York) · 1809
US true first, 1809, Irving's first major book, two volumes. The famous Knickerbocker promotional hoax was a series of newspaper notices and advertisements placed before publication to drum up interest in the 'missing' Diedrich Knickerbocker; it was a pre-publication press campaign, not text bound into the book's preliminaries.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032871 for "A History of New York (Knickerbocker's History)" by Washington Irving (as 'Diedrich Knickerbocker') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032871, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).