A HIDDEN LIFE: the enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse.
Pp. [viii]+316, 4 plates, appendices, source notes, index; demy 8vo; mottled light grey boards, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle browned; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed and worn, backstrip creased near foot; edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Macmillan, London, 1976. Second printing. *The subject was a celebrated Chinese scholar and co-author of two standard work on Chinese history. He was also a benefactor of the Bodleian Library. In this biography the author reveals his was also 'one of the most outrageous forgers, confidence tricksters and eccentrics of the twentieth century' [wrapper blurb]. Item #169023
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