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Autographs and manuscripts, a collector's manual
xviii, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Section I: Fundamentals. The development of writing / Diana J. Rendell -- Writing instruments and materials / Edmund Berkeley, Jr. -- The historyof autograph collecting / Joseph E. Fields -- Section II: Rudiments of autograph collecting. The language of autograph collecting / Edmund Berkeley, Jr. -- Who collects autographs and manuscripts, and why: the philosophy of collecting / Kenneth W. Rendell -- Acquiring autographs and manuscripts / Herbert E. Klingelhofer -- The detection of forgeries / Kenneth W. Rendell -- Famous forgers: their successes and downfalls / Kenneth W. Rendell -- The autopen and the signa-signer / H. Keith Thompson -- Hidden signatures / Herbert E. Klingelhofer -- Confused identities / Joseph E. Fields -- Changing handwriting / Edmund Berkeley, Jr. -- John Adams -- his handwriting / Gordon T. Banks -- Fair copies and working copies / Robert L. Volz -- Organizing and displaying your collection / David Herr Coblentz -- Nothing is forever: preservation, repairs, and your responsibility / Robert C. Wiest -- Your manuscripts and the scholarly world / Carolyn Hoover Sung -- Legal ramifications of manuscript collecting / Leslie J. Schreyer -- Values / Mary A. Benjamin -- The market for autographs: the European scene / Michel Castaing -- Ethics / John F. Reed
Section III: Some areas in which to collect. Specialized collecting / Richard Maass -- Autographs of American Presidents / Christopher C. Jaeckel -- American literary autographs / Michael Papantonio -- English literary autographs / Roy L. Davids -- French literary autographs / Walter G. Langlois -- European and world literatures / Henry Strutz -- American colonial and revolutionary autographs / John C. Dann -- Autographs of the American Civil War / Charles F. Cooney -- British historical autographs / John Wilson -- European historical autographs / Members of the editorial board -- Musical autographs and manuscripts / Irving Lowens -- Collecting scientific and medical autographs / Rudolf F. Kallir -- Collecting the documents of art / Thomas B. Brumbaugh -- Religious manuscripts / James Kritzeck -- Autographs and manuscripts of radicals and reformers / Walter Goldwater -- British theater and dance / C.A. Kyrle Fletcher -- American theater / Franklyn Lenthall -- Justices of the Supreme Court in the United States / Gerhard A. Gesell.
Edmund Berkeley, Jr., editor ; Herbert E. Klingelhofer and Kenneth W. Rendell, coeditors ; sponsored by the Manuscript Society.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-510) and index.