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Dear Colleagues,

The proliferation of books, articles, and documentaries about forgeries testifies to considerable

interest on the part of the educated public. But most of these materials are produced by journalists

and filmmakers, and thus they do not afford the opportunity to enter the expert mind.

Accordingly, I have decided to edit a book of which each chapter will be a factual first-person

narrative in which an expert relates an encounter with forged art, manuscripts, or books. Each

narrative will be a nose-to-tail account, delineating everything from the expert’s first contact

with the forged item(s) to the ultimate consequences, with emphasis on what goes on the expert’s

Mind.

Necessary background information must of course also be supplied, and everything must be

comprehensible to the intelligent and educated reader with no specific training in connoisseurship.

While I envision chapters of approximately 5,000 to 8,000 words, all lengths will be considered.

I conceive this book as a useful guide for those interested in learning about the detection of forgeries,

but it should also be entertaining – even wildly so.

I have a couple of very promising leads concerning publication, but success will ultimately depend

on quality. All revenues, which will probably be scant at best, will of course be divided among all

Contributors.

Interested individuals should write me at [log in to unmask].

Please pass this information along to colleagues who may want to participate.

Best wishes,

Bill Cole

My background:

I am an art and rare book dealer. I have published dozens of articles, reviews, and notes concerning

connoisseurship in Print Quarterly, The Library, Word & Image, The Burlington Magazine, The Art Journal, Art in Print,

Modern Philology, The Book Collector, and many other journals, both scholarly and semi-scholarly. Among my

books are First and Otherwise Notable Editions of Medieval French Texts Printed from 1742 to 1874 (2005), The Juvenilia of

William Kentridge: An Unauthorized Catalogue Raisonné (2016), and A Jack Greenberg Lexicon (2017).

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