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Holograph   Listen
noun
Holograph  n.  
1.
A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Holograph" Quotes from Famous Books



... as an acquirer of those of others, provided always that they were old enough or rare enough. An item never passed into his possession without at once ipso facto gaining new attributes, almost invariably worded in a holograph memorandum on the fly-leaf. Daniel was in the market at a fortunate and peculiar juncture, just when prices were depressed, about the time of the great Heber sale. His marvellous gleanings came to the hammer precisely when the quarto Shakespeare, the black-letter romance, the unique book of Elizabethan ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... a passage from another letter of Smith in connection with his correspondent's financial studies. This letter—which Archdeacon Sinclair describes as a "holograph letter in six folio pages"—is no longer extant, but it concluded with the following remarks on the taxation of the necessaries and ...
— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae



Words linked to "Holograph" :   pic, leaf-book, palimpsest, photo, autograph, roll, exposure, scroll, codex, hologram



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