HOYOIS, Emmanuel (ed.) Documents et particularités... Lot 28

HOYOIS, Emmanuel (ed.) Documents et particularités historiques sur le catalog du comte de Fortsas; ouvrage dédié aux bibliophiles de tous les pays. Mons E. Hoyois (1857) Gr. in-8°: [4]-222 pp. (slight foxing on 1st and last ff., soiling and foxing on false-title restored without loss, foxing on bottom of quire without loss, minor foxing passim). Early 20th c. grey bradel percaline with corners, spine gilt filleted, second cover on boards. First edition, the main source for the story of the mystification. Chalon had tried, with relative success, to forbid the republication of the Comte de Fortsas catalog, but he was unable to prevent the publication of the numerous documents in Hoyois' possession (some of which Chalon had shown him and of which Hoyois had taken copies), including correspondence with collectors and offers to buy. Followed by a somewhat romanticized account of Count Fortsas' "Voyage à Binche", extracts from newspapers and magazines of the period, an article on the Agathopèdes "sect", etc. Edition of 200 numbered copies on colored paper, this one on yellow daffodil paper (no. 162). Numerous in-text woodcuts. Ref. Devillers 104:282 ("from the presses of a Brussels printer"). - Court, G. de le] - "Jean-Népomucène-Auguste Pichauld, comte de Fortsas et Renier Chalon", in Le livre & l'estampe. 9, 1957, pp. 8-47. - De Callataÿ & Sorgeloos 25. Bound with: [Chalon, Renier] - Catalogue d'une très-riche mais peu nombreuse collection de livres provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. le comte J.-N.-A. de Fortsas [...]. Second edition. Brux, G.A. Van Trigt; Lyon, L. Perrin, [1863]. (Some browning). Covers and large witnesses cons. Only reprint authorized by the author, printed in an edition of 200 copies, 1/178 on tinted laid paper. Prov. Vandeputte, Bruxelles (signed bookplate Jules Strickaert-Deschamps mounted on tab on front cover, with annotations in red ink). - Extract from "Le Petit Bleu", March 1910 (folded).