A decent account of the Fortsas affair, with a translated version of the catalog. A bit stilted and dated in its language. Includes a bibliography of the catalog. An interesting story, as always. A lovingly exquisite book, with thick paper, deckle-edged, map on the endpapers, nice brown cloth cover, no dust-jacket. ( )

Walter Klinefelter's The Fortsas Bibliohoax was first printed in 1941 for the Carteret Book Club, and revised and expanded in 1986 by the Press of Ward Schori in a lovely edition of 378 copies. It includes a translated, annotated version of the original Fortsas catalogue from 1840, plus introductory and concluding essays by Klinefelter and a bibliographical discussion of the Fortsas publications by Weber DeVore.

This is by far the best examination and discussion of the Fortsas Hoax in English, and is a must-read for any students of this, one of the greatest literary practical jokes of all time.

http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-fortsas-bibliohoax.html ( )