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Forgers and Critics : Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

Forgers and Critics : Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

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Forgers and Critics : Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

by Grafton, Anthony

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London: Collins & Brown Limited, 1990. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NOT price clipped (£18.00 net). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. First U.K. Edition. Published in 1990, same as the Princeton University Press edition. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original red boards, stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "Just as it takes 'a thief to catch and thief' so the forger greatly aids the search for historical truth, maintains Anthony Grafton in this wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship… This accessible work discusses forgers as different from each other as Dionysus the 'Renegade,' Erasmus, Carlo Sigonio, James MacPherson (Ossian), Thomas Chatterton… Edmund Backhouse, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion… Whatever their goals, forgers… have often been well ahead of the critics in the pursuit of methods of authenticating documents, and Grafton shows that many techniques normally considered the invention of scholars in early modern Europe were already employed in classical times.". First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. x, 157pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Title
Forgers and Critics : Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship
Author
Grafton, Anthony
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New
Jacket Condition
New
Edition
First U.K. Edition
ISBN 10
1855850869
ISBN 13
9781855850866
Publisher
Collins & Brown Limited
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1990
Size
8vo. x, 157pp

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