Forgers Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship - 1st Edition/1st Printing Tapa dura - 1990

Collins & Brown, 1990T. hardcover. Very Good. 0.5000 8.5000 5.4000.

London: Collins & Brown, 1990. Cloth with dustjacket, 22 cm, 157 pp. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 1855850869. .

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Collins & Brown. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 1855850869 . Binding tight. Pages unmarked and bright. Red cloth cover with little or no wear. Dustjacket has minor wear to edges, but still glossy. ; 8.50 X 5.40 X 0.50 inches; 158 pages .

Collins & Brown, London, 1990. X,157p. Bound wrps. 'Grafton makes clear that the master forger must also be (...) a scholar (...) as knowledgeable as those whom he is trying to fool. (...) This elegant monograph ranges from Porphyry through Isaac Casaubon (...) on to Scaliger, Chatterton and others, though its focus remains the transmission of classical texts. Or, rather, pseudo-classical texts.' (Washington Post). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

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… Leer más