The Fortsas bibliohoax / by Walter Klinefelter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinefelter, Walter, 1899-1987, author.

Contributor:

Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978, type designer.

Schori Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chalon, Renier, 1802-1889. Catalogue d'une trés riche mais peu nombreuse collection des livres provenant de la bibliothèque de feu Mr le comte J.N.A. de Fortsas.

Chalon, Renier.

Imaginary books and libraries.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Fairfield.

Brockway Text (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[6], 87, [3] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Revised and newly annotated / by the author, with bibliographical notes and comments, including a reprint of the Fortsas catalogue.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Press of Ward Schori, 1986.

Notes:

"A revised and annotated printing of one done at the Press of the Woolly Whale in 1941 in an edition of 128 copies for members of the Carteret Book Club of Newark, and then in 1942 to the number of 200 copies under the imprint of the same press"--Colophon.

Limited edition of 378 copies.

The map is on the lining papers.

Set in Rudolph Ruzicka's Fairfield. Printed on Brockway Text.

The "reprint" of the Fortsas catalog is actually a translation of the text (the title page 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, which catalog of the imaginary collection of a fictitious count was published in 1840.

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.

Contains:

Chalon, Renier, 1802-1889. 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. English

ISBN:

091169417X

9780911694178

OCLC:

15503910