Buenos Aires, 1935: Jorge Luis Borges published a collection of short stories of some infamous criminals of the world (Billy the Kidd etc.), under the title  "A Universal History of Infamy." Borges has inaugurated his style of presenting some fictional, counterfeited data as authentic; of course, he was a great artist playing game even with history. He was a writer, not a historian and I like his game so much. 
Many years later, in 1993, "Larousse" and "Officina Nova" published an encyclopaedia for children (Encyclopédie Découvertes junior) where you can see a photograph (in the article about the Great Depression) with the text that gangster Al Capone had sponsored the kitchens for jobless people in Chicago during the Great Depression. Nothing else about Al Capone! I think those publishers surpassed Borges in style, definitely