The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Paul Baines and Paul Baines

Published in 1999, this work offers a balanced interdisciplinary account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practised, constructed and theorized in the 18th century as a corollary of the new documents of the financial revolution: banknotes, bills of exchange and promissory notes. The book surveys the crime and its mythology, placing well-known cases such as that of Dr. William Dodd within the pattern of 400 prosecutions from the period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367195461
• ISBN13: 9780367195465
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"