Antique Questioned Documents Book Osborn Outline of Methods 1910 Crime Forgery

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Rare Antique Questioned Documents: A Study of Questioned Documents with an Outline of Methods by which the Facts May be Discovered and Shown. Book by Albert S. Osborn, with an Introduction by Professor John H. Wigmore. Includes 200 illustrations. The Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing Co.: Rochester, NY, 1910. 501 pp. Large thick Red Hardcover Cloth; with author's name and title stamped in gold on front cover, and on spine. Extensive text by Osborn an expert on forged document identification - on such topics as hand-writing, ink, print, paper, methods of testing and much more; full-page and vignette photographic illustrations of examples, as well as double-sided "Stereographic Photo-Micrographs" illustration sheets (4" x 7 1/4") inserted into a pocket inside back cover. Also several newspaper clippings from 1925 Boston related to a case of a questioned entry in a Fly-Leaf Bible.  Osborn (1858 - 1946) is known as the father of the examination of questioned documents. He worked on many important criminal cases incl. the Lindbergh kidnapping. Good tight condition; some rubbing to head and tail of spine; corner tips bumped; small red ex-lib. rubber stamp on front free endpaper (only ex-lib.markings found); former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Very Rare and Collectible Book related to tthe History of the Science, Study and Examination of Questioned Documents, and the Crime of Forgery. SEE IMAGES!