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Chats on Autographs

Chapter 1: CHATS ON AUTOGRAPHS
By Alexander Meyrick Broadley
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This work presents a series of practical essays on collecting autographs, defining autographs as letters or documents written or signed by their creators and distinguishing serious collectors from casual signature gatherers. It emphasizes the superiority and value of intact manuscripts over clipped signatures, warns against destructive practices, and explains special categories such as postal franks. Chapters offer guidance on authentication, cataloguing, preservation, and the commercial market, illustrated by the author's personal experience and illustrative anecdotes. The text stresses the research and biographical value of original correspondence while surveying common frauds and providing collecting strategies useful to both novices and experienced collectors.

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Title: Chats on Autographs

Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley

Release date: May 20, 2016 [eBook #52112]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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CHATS ON
AUTOGRAPHS

BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS

With Coloured Frontispieces and many Illustrations.
Large Crown 8vo, cloth.

CHATS ON ENGLISH CHINA.
By Arthur Hayden.

CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE.
By Arthur Hayden.

CHATS ON OLD PRINTS.
By Arthur Hayden.

CHATS ON OLD SILVER.
By E. L. Lowes.

CHATS ON COSTUME.
By G. Woolliscroft Rhead.

CHATS ON OLD LACE AND NEEDLEWORK.
By E. L. Lowes.

CHATS ON ORIENTAL CHINA.
By J. F. Blacker.

CHATS ON MINIATURES.
By J. J. Foster.

CHATS ON ENGLISH EARTHENWARE.
By Arthur Hayden.
(Companion Volume to "Chats on English China.")

CHATS ON AUTOGRAPHS.
By A. M. Broadley.

Chats on Autographs

BY

A. M. BROADLEY

AUTHOR OF "DR. JOHNSON AND MRS. THRALE," JOINT AUTHOR OF "NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND," "NELSON'S HARDY," "DUMOURIEZ AND THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND AGAINST NAPOLEON," ETC., ETC.

WITH ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

"An Autograph Collection may be made an admirable adjunct to the study of History and Biography."

L. J. Cist
[Preface to Tefft Catalogue, 1866]

LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
ADELPHI TERRACE
MCMX

To
SIR ISAMBARD OWEN,
 D.C.L., M.D., F.R.C.P.

HON. FELLOW OF DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
FIRST DEPUTY CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES,
AND VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL,
A ROYAL AND FREE CITY, RENOWNED FOR THE
RICHNESS OF ITS ARCHIVES, AND ITS CLOSE
ASSOCIATION WITH MEN OF LETTERS,
THIS VOLUME IS, WITH HIS PERMISSION, INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR.

The Knapp, Bradpole, May 6, 1910.

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