Forgers & fools : the strange career of "Baron" Weisberg and the incredible story of documents destroyed and disburdened from the Philadelphia custom house / by Maxwell Whiteman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiteman, Maxwell, author.

Contributor:

Laws, George, book designer.

Stone House Press (Roslyn, N.Y.), printer.

Typophiles (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Out of Sorts Letter Foundry, typesetter.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Typophiles monograph. New series ; no. 3.

Typophile monograph. New series ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weisberg, Charles Bates.

United States Custom House (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Archives.

United States Custom House (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Antiquarian booksellers.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Forgers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Forgers.

Forgery of manuscripts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Forgery of manuscripts.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Private press books (Publishing) -- Stone House Press (Roslyn, N.Y.)

Archives.

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Janson.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

23, [1] pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Roslyn, N.Y. : Stone House Press

Other Title:

Forgers and fools

Place of Publication:

New York : Typophiles, 1986.

Notes:

Designed by George Laws. Set in Monotype Janson by Out of Sorts Letter Foundery. 480 copies printed at the Stone House Press.

Includes bibliographical references (page 23).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

HSP library copy presented by the Pa. Magazine of History and Biography.

OCLC:

15646490