The detection of forgery : a practical handbook for the use of bankers, solicitors, magistrates' clerks, and all handling suspected documents /

The detection of forgery : a practical handbook for the use of bankers, solicitors, magistrates' clerks, and all handling suspected documents /

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Author / Creator:Blackburn, Douglas, 1857-1929
Imprint:London : C. & E. Layton, 1909.
Description:77, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Forgery -- Great Britain.
Writing -- Identification.
Forgery.
Writing.
Great Britain.
Field guides.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2931496
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Other authors / contributors:Caddell, W. Walthman.
Notes:Errata slip bound in facing p. 15.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [78]).
Also issued online.
committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The principles of handwriting analysis
  • Measurement and its appliances
  • Terminology
  • Classes of handwriting
  • How to examine a writing
  • The alphabet in detail
  • The capitals
  • Punctuation
  • Paper and watermarks
  • Inks
  • Erasures
  • Pencils and stylographs
  • Anonymous letters and disguised hands
  • Forged literary autographs
  • Forged signatures
  • The expert in the witness-box
  • Handwriting and expression.

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