False book-backs ordered by Charles Dickens in 1851 to fill blank spaces in his study at Tavistock House:

• Five Minutes in China (3 volumes)
• Forty Winks at the Pyramids (2 volumes)
• History of the Middling Ages (6 volumes)
• Jonah’s Account of the Whale
• Captain Parry’s Virtues of Cold Tar
• Kant’s Ancient Humbugs (10 volumes)
• Bowwowdom: A Poem
• The Quarrelly Review
• The Art of Cutting the Teeth
• Drowsy’s Recollections of Nothing (3 volumes)
• Heavysides Conversations With Nobody (3 volumes)
• Growler’s Gruffiology, With Appendix (4 volumes)
• Miss Biffin on Deportment
• Lady Godiva on the Horse
• Munchausen’s Modern Miracles
• On the Use of Mercury by the Ancient Poets

And Hansard’s Guide to Refreshing Sleep, “as many volumes as are required to fill up.”