Fourth Estate, London, 1991. Minor signs of wear at dustjacket extremities of spine, previous owners' names in pen at top of front endpaper x 2.

Edward Perry Warren collected art and young men.Bachelors of Art is the previously untold story of how this wealthy American expatriate came, in the 1890s, to fashion a bizarre brotherhood of aesthetes.

David Sox also explores, in this intriguing and exciting slice of hidden history, a dark side to the world's great collections: illegal archaeological excavations, outright theft, and, most tantalizingly of all, forgeries and fakes.