A fine copy and as new in a lightly soiled plain dust jacket. First edition. Cloth. Sm. 4to. xxxv, 427 pp. Illus. with 98 color & b/w plates. One hundred essays about The Rosenwald Collection which "constitutes the largest single gathering of rare books at the Library of Congress, and ... represents one of the finest collections of books formed by any individual." Essays cover Manuscripts, Early Printing, Typography & Writing Books, Illustrated Books, Eighteenth-Century French Illustrated Books, William Blake, Modern Illustrated Books, Architecture, Bindings, Geography, Herbals, and Science.

Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress

Politics & Social Sciences

W. Thomas Taylor

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division

Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Social Sciences

Library of Congress

Texfake is the result of three years of investigation into the scandal surrounding the 1988 discovery of forged copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The New Yorker all carried articles on the affair, but this is the definitive account of the history and impact of the Texas forger and his wares. Austin rare book dealer Taylor lays out the facts concerning the forgeries: who made them; when and how they were made; how they were discovered; and whether or not the dealers involved know what they were selling. He also reveals for the first time the devastating impact of the looting of Texas libraries by thieves in the 1960s. Taylor discusses in detail all of the printed Texas documents known to have been forged or fabricated and includes a census of every known copy, genuine or fake. The thirty-nine illustrations demonstrate how to distinguish between genuine and forged copies. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Larry McMurtry's introduction delivers on his promise to "slap on a little of the color that Tom Taylor has had to leave off." McMurtry offers an amusing but clear-eyed account of the principal dealers in the affair, Dorman David and John Jenkins, and their "top-speed stampede through the trade" from the perspective of a former employee of David's bookshop and later a dealer who knew both men.

Texfake: An Account of the Theft and Forgery of Early Texas Printed Documents

History

Americas

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