The art of forgery : an account of divers aspects of this antient craft and of its most celebrated masters.

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Printed wrappers, 4to, 27 cm, 25 leaves, reproduced from typescript, text on rectos only. Contents: Philatelic Forgery, by Ian Bayley; Forgery in Painting, by Charles Sprawson; Forgery and Medieval Society, by Claude Lester; Counterfeit Money, by Anthony Rance; Thomas J. Wise, by Noel Bolingbroke-Kent; Classical Forgeries, by Tim Webb. In his article on Wise, Bolingbroke-Kent notes that it is sometimes thought Wise made only small profits from his forgeries,continuing "They were not; they were very large. Wise himself in a burst of self-confidence to Herbert Gorfin announced that John A. Wrenn was worth a thousand pounds a year to him". Wrappers darkened and worn with some edgeloss. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-57722

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