Les mystifications de Caillot-Duval avec une choix de ses lettres les plus étonnantes Suivies des Réponses de ses victimes Introduction et éclaircissements par Lorédan Larchey Eau-Forte de Faustin Besson
Publisher: Chez René Pincebourde, Éditeur à la Librairie Richelieu Imp. Delâtre
Published: 1864
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 170
Description: <p></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;">8vo. ff. [3], pp. xxiv, 124, f. [1]. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering panel. Marbled boards. Acidic brittle endpapers. ‘Tirage à petit nombre’ on verso of half-title. Full-page eau-forte engraving facing title page, signed "F.B."</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;">Bibliophile account of the hoax by two bored young aristocrats, serving as army officers quartered at Nancy in 1784, who took the pseudonymn of Caillot-Duval. It accompanies the original "Correspondance philosophique de Caillot-Duval" published in 1795 (see Bib# 4656298/Fr# 1248 in this collection).</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_4701432" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>