The gentle art of faking: a history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day / by Riccardo Nobili ... with 31 illustrations

by Nobili, Riccardo (1859-1939)

€125 · Offered by MW Books

1922, 1st edition. London: Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd. Provenance: Samuel Gurney. Very good cloth copy in a poor edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3 preliminary leaves, 11-318 pages: frontispiece, plates; 22 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Art Forgeries.....

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