Title: Nugae difficiles. Supplément aux Amusements philologiques de G. Peignot; par R. Chalon
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.</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;">There are two copies in this collection. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present has 8 extra pages and is ending on p. 34. It is bound in half dark blue calf over marbled boards, together with:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A. Dinaux, A Monsieur Rénier Chalon, président de la Société des Bibliophiles de Mons. [Valenciennes, 20 September 1844], pp.6 (see Bib# 8921741), a reply to Nugae difficiles.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">R. Chalon, Les opuscula de Jean Despiennes. Lettre à M. le Président de la Société de Hainaut. Pp. 4 [Offprint of the Bulletin du bibliophile belge, XVI (1860), pp. 201-204] (see Bib# 8921724).</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Prospectus. Brussels, Imprimerie de M. Hayez, pp. 3. A prospectus for the Bulletin du bibliophile belge.</span></li></ul><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;">Work by historian and bibliophile Renier Chalon (1802-1889), the mastermind behind the Fortsas Bibliohoax (1840). This selection of notulae on eccentric publications not in Peignot’s Amusements philologiques (3rd ed., Dijon, 1842) – anagrams, chronograms, acrostics, etc. – may bear scrutiny for invented titles. See F. de Cattalaÿ &amp; C. Sorgeloos, Renier Chalon alias Fortsas. Un érudit malicieux au mitan du XIXe siècle. Morlanwelz, 2008, pp. 84-85, citing only the periodical appearances of the Nugae in 1845-1846. Chalon originally intended an extended account of eccentric authors and texts, modelled on Nodier’s Bibliographie des fous, to be called Bedlam littéraire; see de Callataÿ &amp; Sorgeloos, pp. 88-89.</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;"><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_8921722" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>