The Fortsas bibliohoax / by Walter Klinefelter ; including a reprint of the Fortsas catalogue.

Accession number: 
PML 251353
Author: 
Klinefelter, Walter, 1899-1987.
Published: 
Evanston, Illinois : Press of Ward Schori, 1992.
Description: 
147 pages : illustrations ; 57 x 67 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes: 

" ... This new Fortsas was printed and published by The Press of Ward Schori in a limited edition of about 400 copies. After printing, the type for the notes was discarded. The type for the text, saved for five years, was re-worked into smaller pages and reproduction proofs made. These were photographically reduced and printed ... for this miniature book - limited to 249 copies"--Colophon.
The "reprint" of the Fortsas catalog is actually a translation of the text (the t.p. and preliminaries are not included)--of Renier Hubert Ghislain Chalon's anonymously written Catalogue d'une très-riche mais peu nombreuse collection de livres provenant de la bibliothèque de feu Mr le comte J.N.A. de Fortsas. A catalog of the imaginary collection of the fictitious count was published in 1840.
Housed in box labelled Schori Press [Box I].

Binding: 
Dark grey cloth boards stamped in gilt; map endpapers.
Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
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