Blake and the Banknote Crises of 1797, 1800, and 1818.
On 5 April 1797, Blake signed a certificate attesting to the efficacy of Alexander Tilloch's method for producing forge-proof banknotes. Tilloch's scheme was designed to obviate the human cost of forgery, which was a capital offence. Predicated on a stereotype printing process, Tilloch's method was...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 815 - 837 |
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University of Toronto Press
Fall2011
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