THE MISSING GUTENBERG WOOD BLOCKS
1940. · New York
by [Press of the Woolly Whale]
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940.. Small quarto. Gilt cloth and boards. Illustrations. Boards faintly rubbed, else near fine. First edition. An elaborate spoof perpetrated by Melbert B. Cary, Jr., recording the alleged discovery of a sequence of woodblocks depicting the life of Gutenberg from nativity to the advent of his printing shop. (Inventory #: WRCLIT80690)