TEXFAKE.
An account of the theft and forgery of early Texas printed documents. With an Introduction by Larry McMurtry. Pp. xx+160(last colophon, blank), 39 plates, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, printed papered boards; W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, Texas, 1991. First edition. *Detailed investigation of the 1988 discovery of forged copies of early Texas documents. Discloses when and how the forgeries were made, by whom, and how they were discovered and proven to be spurious. Also shows the involvement of prominent American dealers in the sale of the documents. The plates display how to distinguish between genuine and forged copies of broadsides. Item #067683
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