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Forgers and Critics, New Edition

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Forgers and Critics, New Edition

By Anthony Grafton

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About the book

Just as it "takes a thief to catch a 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. Labeling forgery the "criminal sibling" of criticism, he describes a panorama of remarkable individuals--forgers, from classical Greece through the recent past, who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, and scholarly detectives, who honed the tools of scholarship ...Show more

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9780691191836

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Princeton University Press

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2019

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