The Detection of Forgery / A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents

The handbook provides practical methods for detecting forged documents and signatures, explaining core principles of handwriting analysis and measurement, and defining technical terminology. It guides readers through classifying hands, step-by-step comparison techniques, and detailed study of letter forms, capitals, punctuation, paper and watermarks, inks, erasures, pencils and fountain pens. Later chapters discuss disguised and anonymous writings, forged autographs and signatures, and the duties of an expert witness, and close with considerations of handwriting as expression and a concise bibliography. Emphasis is placed on hands-on practice, observational tests, and simple photographic and chemical aids.