Forgers and Critics : Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship [first edition]

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.