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1904Pa146London: Henry Frowde 1904. Deluxe MINIATURE EDITION . Hardback. Fine. 128mo. 688pp. Frontis. plate. HALL MARKED SILVER PLAQUE ATTACHED TO THE FRONT COVER. Hall-Marked CBP Charles Penny Brown Birmingham 1908. Black leather with gilt titles to the spine. A scarce item especially in this condition. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS <br/> <br/> Henry Frowde hardcover
BB110284Full leather binding with goldprint 12° without page numbers. Illustrated with frontispiece. TOGETHER WITH: Heidelbergse catechismus en Christelijke gebeden. Together 68 pp. hardcover
1850MINIATUR015272Rock Bros. & Payne London. c 1850. First edition. 64mo measuring 28 x 24 mm. Frontispiece and title-page followed by thirty engraved views. Original decorated full leather gilt all edges gilt.Very good indeed. Rock Bros. & Payne, London. hardcover
1863353721Buffalo NY: Breed Butler & Co 1863. 63pp. 1-1/2 x 1 inches. Original green cloth gilt front cover a.e.g. Fine. 63pp. 1-1/2 x 1 inches. Breed, Butler & Co unknown
188021619Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1880. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo. 2-1/2 by 3 inches. 191pp. Brown cloth with gilt title on spine and vignette on upper board. 48 plates. All edges gilt. Gilt and cloth rubbed else a very good copy.<br /> <p><br /> Marbles cricket dolls blowgun reading peep-shows foot-ball gymnastics and a long list of other sports.<br /> <p><br /> Welsh 1401.<br /> <p>. H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover
202136783Riverside CA: Bo Press Miniature Books 2021. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity humor and delight. She creates both miniature under 3 inches and macro-miniature under 1 inch books. This book is from a limited edition which is signed by the artist.<br /> <br /> Number 24 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then another one hundred and forty-seven one hundred and forty-eight now books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places poetry architecture history flea circuses and books themselves.<br /> <br /> The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I've ever written illustrated designed and published that I can remember since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title author illustrator pages dime."<br /> <br /> Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a box with removable lid covered in tan marbled paper with green dragon skin patterned paper onlay. The box is lined with green and gold marbled paper. Slight bump to one corner of box lid else fine. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Bo Press Miniature Books hardcover
202136780Riverside CA: Bo Press Miniature Books 2021. Fine. Number 21 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box bound in papers to match the box. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity humor and delight. She creates both miniature under 3 inches and macro-miniature under 1 inch books. This book is from a limited edition which is signed by the artist. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then another one hundred and forty-seven one hundred and forty-eight now books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places poetry architecture history flea circuses and books themselves.<br /> The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I've ever written illustrated designed and published that I can remember since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title author illustrator and pages." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a slipcase covered in marbled paper and off-white handmade paper with a metal chain lining the seams of where the papers meet. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Bo Press Miniature Books unknown
003263Avenione Avignon: Typis & cura Francisci Seguin 1785. Hardcover. Very Good. Sextodecimo. viii 288pp. Text in italic type framed by a double black fillet border with fleurons and decorative motifs. Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards. Title vignette head and tail-pieces initials decorative borders. A lovely eighteenth-century miniature book in very good condition. <br/> <br/> Avenione [Avignon]: Typis & cura Francisci Seguin, 1785. hardcover
184065959Paris: Firmin Didot 1840. MINIATURE BOOKS. Paris: Firmin Didot n.d.c.a. 1840.<br> <br> 24 x 20 mm. 1-87 1 blank pp. With engraved title-page and 6 full-page illustrations. Text in French.<br> <br> Blue silk spine over enamel tortoise-shell boards. Blue silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Very good.<br> <br> A charming miniature illustrated book with thirteen fables.<br> <br> HBS 65959.<br> <br> $300. Firmin Didot unknown
1980ST20505-15Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop 1980. EACH ONE OF 125 COPIES. 47 x 38 mm. 2 x 1 1/2". 18 pp. 1 leaf. Two copies of the same work sold separately. <br/> Deep brown half morocco over marbled paper boards flat spine lettered in gilt. WITH A LEAF FROM the Newberry Bible. De Hamel and Silver "Disbound and Dispersed" 168.5. As new; one copy with the inserted leaf a bit browned with a small open tear to the margin not affecting the text but still excellent; the other with a very fine leaf just a bit browned at the edges.<br/> <br/> These two copies of this delightful publication feature a leaf of the famed 1780 Newberry "Thumb Bible" accompanied by an essay written by one of the 20th century's most noted collectors of miniature books. It is a charming tribute on the bicentennial of the publication of one of the world's smallest Bibles. The Newberry Bible fully titled "The Bible in Miniature or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments" was produced by Elizabeth Newberry the niece of John Newbery pioneering children's book publisher and the namesake of the Newberry Medal. Ruth E. Adomeit 1912-96 was a lifelong miniature book enthusiast: along with being known for her personal library she wrote the leading bibliography of thumb bibles was editor of "The Miniature Book Collector" from 1960-62 and was active in the Miniature Book Society. This publication is made especially charming by its size which perfectly fits the tiny leaf it contains. Dawson's Book Shop unknown
198573401Cambridge MA: Runcible Press ca. 1985. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author/printer/illustrator and printed on Kozo paper. 1 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches. With 24 linocuts by Parry with alphabet on the opposing versos. Bound in the Japanese manner; string-tied decorative wrappers. An excellent copy of this scarce miniature Marian Parry is an author poet illustrator and watercolor artist. Her books have been published by Knopf Simon & Schuster Greenwillow Heritage Press and Limited Editions Pharos Verlag Switzerland and Scholastic Books. She has had numerous one-person shows. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the Houghton Library of Harvard University and the Smith College Rare Book Room. The main archive of her work is in the print collection of the Boston Public Library. Founder and senior instructor of the Watercolor Program for the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University she was a fellow in the Bunting Fellowship Program at Radcliffe. Parry has illustrated 17 books. The first “The Space Child’s Mother Goose†published in 1958 by Simon & Schuster is still in print. Runcible Press unknown
185033937New London CT: Wm. Bolles & Co 1850. Hardcover. Miniature 2" X 1.75". Full calf gilt spine lettering. 192pp. Frontispiece woodcut woodcut illustrations. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear; some slightly irregular and closely trimmed pages. Tight lovely copy of this American Tom Thumb Bible a popular category of miniature book in the early 19th century. This is a later printing of the edition that W. & J. Bolles first brought out around 1831. The woodcut illustrations are charmingly primitive. Original leather binding is in exceptionally sharp handsome condition with spine lettering bright. Wm. Bolles & Co hardcover
46046Henry Frowde. London. 1904 - 1906. 55 x 37mm Original publisher's suede gilt spine titles and marble endpapers all in fair condition with insect damage to part of one front and one rear board text in good condition printed on India paper with front page of three of the tiny volumes loose from the spine though all spines are surprisingly sound. The five volumes comprise The Chimes The Cricket On The Hearth The Battle Of Life The Haunted Man all 1904 and A Christmas Carol 1906 and although fragile at over a hundred years old they are an amazing and quant unretouched example of early miniatures all still readable. Henry Frowde. London. 1904 - 1906 unknown
1950255840N.p. 1950. Text of the Lord's Prayer in English French Spanish German etc. 1 vols. Miniature 3/16 x 3/16 inches. Black morocco binding. As new in lucite case and cloth lined folding white plastic box. Text of the Lord's Prayer in English French Spanish German etc. 1 vols. Miniature 3/16 x 3/16 inches. unknown
192633532New York: The Triptych 2529 Park Row Bldg 1926. #26 of 99 copies on Small Paper. 1 vols. 64mo. Decorated boards some wear. #26 of 99 copies on Small Paper. 1 vols. 64mo. The Triptych, 2529 Park Row Bldg unknown
3529S.l. but Amsterdam: s.n. 1952. . Tiny 7/32 x 7/32 inch 4mm. X 4 mm. full black morocco silver rule on both covers silver bands on spine and silver cross on front cover. In an Acrylic magnifying box with swivel lid. Spielmann 355. The Lord's Prayer in Dutch English French German Spanish and Swedish. S.l. [but Amsterdam]: s.n., 1952. unknown
1882250287London: Rivingtons 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 64mos full brown calf gilt titling and edges in publisher's full calf slipcase <br/><br/>Lear was an active religious writer. Most copies of this work were published in cloth extra and a few on handmade paper bound in parchment. This charming set is slightly larger than the 3-inch standard for miniature books measuring in as they do at 8.5 cm or below 3.5 inches. <br /> <br />l Rivingtons hardcover
1960ABE-1593892305603Los Angeles Muir Dawson 1960 Very Good: Los Angeles CA: Muir Dawson 1960. First Edition thus. Paperback. Very Good. No Limitation Stated. Miniature Book. 3 1/16 x 2 1/4 inches. iv vii pp. Text elegantly printed in black and red inks; text clean unmarked. Printed wrappers; binding square and tight very faint toning along spine. Ink correction on colophon. Very Fine. "Printed by Muir Dawson from 'The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.'. Special Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Los Angeles, Muir Dawson paperback
182591London: Jones & Co 1825. First Edition in Miniature. Leather. Near Fine. Miniature 2.6" x 4.5" rebound in full brown leather with gold stamping and labels 5 hubs engraved frontispiece of Dr Saml Johnson engraved title page 160 pages. Rare Miniature of the larger original published in 1759. Rasselas is Dr. Johnson's version of a morality tale about what constitutes True Happiness that rivals Voltaire's Candide. The volumes' working title was "The Choice of Life." The name "Rasselas" means "The Chief" of a tribe in exotic Abyssinia. The Great Cham & Lexicographer was pro-emancipation and had a black manservant whom he treated very well. This minor classic was supposedly written by the good Doctor to defray expenses expected with his mother's funeral. In fact there are signs of extensive revisions in early editions that suggest greater literary intentions. Rebound in fine brown morocco with gilt stamped title and author on the spine. Foxed engraved frontispiece and title page otherwise pages bright and legible with a tight binding tight. Lower margin of page 7 roughly torn away but not affecting the clear text. Jones & Co hardcover
51478Kingsport Tenn. : Training Division Kingsport Press 1929 . The first of a series of three presidential miniatures from this Press published as an exercise for the Training Division which Bondy calls "marvels of superior miniature book production." It won first prize at the 1928 convention of the Employing Bookbinders of America held in Boston. 22mm x 16mm x 6mm. Bound by hand in full red leather. Gilt title to both front cover and spine.18pp/.pp.139/3pp. . Mottled brown endpapers. Clean text throughout. Very clean. Contains the Gettysburg Address Lincoln�s 2nd Inaugural Address �A House Divided� speech and �Equality in a Republic." VG. Bondy p. 144 . Kingsport, Tenn. : Training Division, Kingsport Press 1929 . hardcover
17570Both on her letterhead 'WALTERS ANSON R.M.S.' 48 Parkstone Avenue Parkstone Dorset. 6 and 11 February 1950. Both letters 2pp. 12mo. Both in good condition lightly-aged the second with the first page lightly crossed through in pencil. The letters relate to work done for the firm of her brother-in-law Marcus Adams described in his Times obituary as 'the outstanding child photographer of his day and photographer to the Royal Family for more than 30 years' at 43 Dover Street Mayfair. She begins the first letter by explaining that she has 'endeavoured to make the Woodall miniature like the snapshot but unless they are really satisfied I had better do another. It is very difficult when something different from the photo is wanted but I don't mind how long it takes if only I can get what they want as they have lost the boy If I have to do another please return this with another piece of ivory I have no more so that I shall be sure of getting colour of hair right.' She continues with more business talk before concluding with a discussion of politics attacking the Labour government as an 'extravagant incompetent horde'. In the second letter she discusses 'the Hillmans group' and her willingness to do 'a specimen of Tuckwell' 'such a bright very much alive & happy child'. The letter concludes with a discussion of colour in her work and the importance of pleasing the mother of the subject. Both on her letterhead ('WALTERS ANSON, R.M.S.'), 48 Parkstone Avenue, Parkstone, Dorset. 6 and 11 February 1950. unknown
41305London. G. Pickering. 1824. Minature. 48mo 8cm tall 192 & 613646922pp. ads. with 2 engraved frontis plates 2 printed title-pages with vignettes head and tail decoration in contemporary full maroon calf raised decorated bands gilt decorations and borders in the panels gilt block titles gilt roll and rule borders on the boards all edges gilt appropriately sized owner's signature on the title tapes dat 1853. some slight edge wear otherwise a fine copy ~ Text in Latin.hoL. ~ Two volumes from Pickering's "Miniature Latin and Italian Classics " series "the smallest edition ever published" advertisement. A finely bound miniature copy of Roman poems odes epistles printed by Corral in "Diamond Type" . Although the title page date reads 1824 the frontis engraving is dated 1828. ~ Bondy. P86. London. G. Pickering. 1824 unknown
17260ABN.p. n.y. 33 : 25 cm. Embossed silver binding unknown
2005ST20505-13Santa Cruz California: Peter and Donna Thomas 2005. No. 37 OF 126 COPIES. 75 x 50 mm. 3 x 2". 2 p.l. 23 1 pp. 1 leaf. <br/> Tan paper with a paper label over a 17th century printed fragment. WITH THREE LEAVES FROM MINIATURE BOOKS: one leaf from the "thumb Bible" "History of the Bible" New London: W & J Bolles 1831; one from "The Shakespeare Glossary" Glasgow: Bryce Stokes 1904; and one from "Dew-Drops" New York City: American Tract Society ca. 1847. With an additional fragment of a larger leaf tipped in at the front. As new.<br/> <br/> This delightful entirely handmade production features a list of miniature leaf books and three original leaves from miniature books published between 1831-1904. Since the 1970s our collaborating husband-and-wife book artists Peter and Donna Thomas have been making paper printing with a hand press and hand binding books. The present book was assembled between 1997-2005 and then printed the Thomases humorously tell us "on a cranky old Pearl treadle press" using Joe Halton's linotype and Neuland types. All paper was handmade by Peter Thomas; as an artistic choice by the bookmakers the endpapers include fragments of paper from the 1686 book "Keble's Reports" the same work from which the fragments on the cover and frontispiece originate. The three leaves included here provide an excellent representation of the charming miniature books of the 19th century. They include a leaf from a "Thumb Bible" the miniature volumes containing biblical excerpts that enjoyed considerable popularity during the period; a leaf from an "Ellen Terry" book issued by Glasgow printer David Bryce Jr. who produced these books using the relatively new technology of photographic reduction and named them after the most famous actress of the day; and an American example produced by the non-denominational American Tract Society which published several miniature religious books through the mid-19th century. This publication is made especially charming by its size which of course is entirely appropriate for the volume's contents. Peter and Donna Thomas unknown
1838BOOKS318508London UK: Charles Tilt Fleet Street. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1838. LeatherBound. 48 pretty plates with prose and verse. Original covers and spine bound in the rear. All edges guilt. 2 1/2 by 2 7/8 inches or 7.2 X 5.7 cm. Bookplate of Dorothy Sturges. Full leather binding by "Wood London". References Welsh 4699; Osborne pp. 186 . Miniature less than 3 inches high 191 pp Front cover loose. . Charles Tilt, Fleet Street hardcover
