Autographs: a key to collecting

Autographs: a key to collecting

Foreward: "...to introduce them to those points which are of immediate and essential importance as well as to the problems their newly acquired knowledge should help them to solve...". (New York - R.R. Bowker Co. - 1946)

Table of contents:

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  • Title Pageiii
  • Forewordvii
  • Contentsxi
  • Illustrationsxiii
  • Introductionxv
  • Part One. Autographs: A Key to Collecting1
  • Chapter I - A Historical Summary3
  • Chapter II - The A. B. C.'s of Terminology16
  • Chapter III - Evaluation34
  • Chapter IV - What to Collect55
  • Chapter V - Where to Buy72
  • Chapter VI - The Forger and His Work87
  • Chapter VII - Facsimiles, Reproductions and Manuscript Copies111
  • Chapter VIII - Detection142
  • Chapter IX - The Hidden Signature164
  • Chapter X - The Strange Case of Button Gwinnett184
  • Chapter XI - Confused Identities193
  • Chapter XII - The Importance of the Collector222
  • Part Two. Autographs: A Key to Collecting239
  • Chapter XIII - Care and Preservation241
  • Table of Approximate Dates273
  • Index283
  • Illustrations311