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Just as it "takes a thief to catch and thief", so the forger greatly aids the search for historical truth, asserts the author of this exploration of the links between forgery and criticism. Ranging from Dionysus the "Renegade", Erasmus, Thomas Chatterton and James MacPherson (Ossian) to the recent past with Sir Edmund Backhouse, Richard Reitzenstein and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the book evokes a panoply of forgers who produced a triumph of learning and style and scholarly detectives who honed the tools of learning and scholarship to unmask the fakers and reveal the historical interest of two strands in the Western intellectual tradition. The author's other books include "The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe" and he is a frequent reviewer in "The Times Literary Supplement".
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"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
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- PublisherCollins & Brown
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 1855850869
- ISBN 13 9781855850866
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages158
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First U.K. Edition. 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 critics in the pursuit of methods of authenticating documents, and Grafton shows that many techniques normally considered the invention of scholars in early modern Europe were already employed in classical times.". First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. x, 157pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 017233
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