Autographs and manuscripts, a collector's manual /
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New York :
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©1978.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.