Four months among the gold-finders in Alta California
Subtitle: being the diary of an expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts. By J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, M.D.
Publisher: David Bogue Vizetelly Brothers and Co., Printers and Engravers
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xviii, 207. Signatures: [A]9 B-I12 J6 K2. Half calf by Morell. Includes frontispiece map of the Gold Districts of Alta California.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of a wholly fictitious account by the stay-at-home London publisher Vizetelly that became a bestseller in England and America, with translations into French, German, Swedish, and Dutch. The work was largely accepted as true until Vizetelly confessed to the hoax in his autobiography, Glances Back through Seventy Years (London, 1893, pp. 343-347).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103501" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>