The Historian and Historical Evidence by Johnson, Allen - 1926

New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1926. First edition. Publisher icon on title page.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Minor foxing on early and last pages. Random blemishing. Lower right front bump. Tightly bound.. 1 Green fabric over boards. Off-white spine paste-on, green titles. 5 p. L., 179 p. 21 cm. Bibliographical foot-notes. Author was Professor of American History, Yale University. From Preface, historians "learn not only how to collect evidence but how to measure and weigh it". Themes: sources, historical doubt, technique of historical criticism, evidence assessment, evolution of method, historical proof, use of hypotheses.