Fakes & Frauds: Varieties of deception in print and manuscript, by Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (Editors)
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Fakes & Frauds: Varieties of deception in print and manuscript, by Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (Editors). Oak Knoll Press: New Castle, Delaware, 2006. Edition: Reprint. ISBN: 090679577X. Hardcover, 8vo, 8.5 by 6 inches, 144 pages. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations, footnoted references, and index.

Condition: Fine. No jacket, as issued.

Contents: Publisher's Note:

The essays collected here throw light on some of the more shadowy areas of book trade history, revealing the trickserts, villians -- even murders -- who have practices deception in the written andprinted word, from the 12th century to very recent times.

The contributors all combine scholarship and literary detective work, and no student of book trade history could fail to be enthralled by the evidence that they present.

The contributors and their essays:

• Lotte Hellinga: Less than the Whole Truth: False Statements in 15th-Century Colophons
• Michael Treadwell: On False and Misleading Imprints in the London Book Trade 1660-1750
• Michael Harris: Paper pirates: the alternative book trade in mid-18th Century London
• Joseph M. Levine: 'Et Tu Brute?' History and Forgery in 18th-Century England
• Nigel Ramsay: Forgery and the rise of the London Scrivener's Company
• Nicolas Barker: The Forgery of Printed Documents
• Tom Davis: Forged Handwriting