[Album of press cuttings and correspondence, principally relating to Alexander Howland Smith’s forgeries of MSS by Robert Burns]

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. Half morocco. With Colvill-Scott’s bookplate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Album of press cuttings and correspondence, principally relating to Alexander Howland ‘Antique’ Smith’s forgeries of MSS by Robert Burns, including an account of his trial in 1892, compiled in 1892-1893 by the collector H.D. Colvill-Scott, with a few notes and letters to him laid in.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/143196" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>