Currently on exhibition at the Club Fortsas are hiightlights from the library of John Charteris, on loan from Willoughby Hall with the cooperation of Auberon Morcombe-Bentley, the Willoughby librarian. It is remarkable for containing the books of “the most gifted writers of Bookland.” Shown in the Fortsas’ Exhibition Hall, in elegant cases and vitrines, are :
- The Complete Works of David Copperfield
- Les Oeuvres de Lucien de Rubempré
- The Works of Arthur Pendennis
- The Nunga-Punga Book by G.B. Torpenhow
- The Shovels of Newton French, by R. L. Stevenson
- Milton’s King Arthur
- The Novels and Tales of Mark Ambient
- The Novels of Titus Scrope
- The Collected Essays of Ernest Pontifex
- Collected Poems of Gervase Poore
Current Loan:
Livres Imaginaires, Reid Byers’ collection of Imaginary Books, is back at Club Fortsas after its popular exhibitions at the Grolier Club in New York and the Book Club of California in San Francisco. Beginning on January 27, it will be on exhibition at Glickman Library at the University of Southern Maine, in Portland, Maine, where it will run through April 20.
Mr. Byers, the great-great-grand-nephew of the Comte himself, has determined to go him one better at his own game, for while the Comte collected only books that existed in a single example, Mr. Byers collects only books that have none whatsoever.