True to the Letter

Collection of handwritings and signatures of significant figures in world history; i.a. Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Sand, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, etc. Illustrated with photo's and plates in full colour and black-and-white. With transcriptions and translations, bibliography, acknowledgments and index.