The old librarian's almanack / by [Philobiblos] a very rare pamphlet first published in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1773 and now reprinted for the first time ...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Librarian's series ; no. 1.
Main Author: Pearson, Edmund Lester, 1880-1937
Language:English
Published: Woodstock, Vt. : Published by the Elm Tree Press, 1909.
Series:Librarian's series ; no. 1.
Subjects:
Librarians > Anecdotes.
Librarians > Humor.
Libraries > Anecdotes.
Libraries > Humor.
Genre:
Anecdotes.
Humor.
Physical Description:35 unnumbered pages, 1 leaf of plates : facsimiles ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Description
Note:A hoax, attributed by Pearson, the actual author, to a fictitious 18th C. librarian named Jared Bean.
Pseud. on title page in Greek.
Preface by Edmund Lester Pearson.
Call Number:Z682.5 .P4
References:
Wiegand, W. The history of a hoax.
NUC pre-1956, 446:563.