American Autographs: Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War Leaders, Presidents — 1983

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Full title: American Autographs: Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War Leaders, Presidents by Charles Hamilton. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1983. In two volumes.

This comprehensive work, the first of its type ever published, contains more than 2,000 facsimile letters, documents, and signatures in two volumes and will profoundly influence the course of American scholarship. For many years there has been an acute need for a reliable reference work designed to guide the scholar in identifying the script and signatures of prominent men and women. This reference set is such a work. Instead of spending weeks or even months in a search for vital facsimiles, the scholar or philographer can turn to American Autographs.

Special features include:

• multiple examples of the writing of all the important personalities;
• voluminous sections on the recent Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan;
• letters and documents of the Signers dated 1776;
• the development of the signatures of scores of famous Americans showing changes from youth to old age;
• dozens of forgeries and other spurious writing for purposes of comparison;
• many franked covers and envelopes, checks, early currency and lottery tickets signed by famous patriots;
• signatures or letters of First Ladies from Martha Washington to Nancy Reagan;
• many special sections, among them all the presidents of the Continental Congress, British leaders in the Revolutionary War, leading Watergate figures, and assassins or would-be assassins from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr.
  

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