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Recent forgeries of early modern printed material have taken the rare book world by surprise. Generally considered all but impossible, the accurate replication of paper, binding, ink and impression, in fact, has a long, continuous and complex history. It is a history that, perhaps, originates in the development of mechanical reproduction itself.
Discover the technologies of print forgery and techniques of de-authentication with Historian Nick Wilding, while exploring the problematic outlines of this history.
Nick Wilding is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Oxford University; his master’s degree in Renaissance studies at the University of Warwick; and his doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is currently working on a history of print forgery.