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50068<p>London Printed for the Company of Stationers 1824. 1824 miniature book approximately 60 x 36 mm 2¼ x 1½ inches cover size engraved throughout arms of the Stationers on title page view of St Paul's School over 4 pages plus 16 pages of text including A Table of Kings and Queens Reigns Lord Mayors and Sheriffs bound into the original tall narrow wallet style red morocco case with tuck-in flap and tiny pocket inside upper cover all edges gilt bright pink endpapers. Small ink spot on fold-over a touch of rubbing to extremities 2 tiny holes in fold of fold-over small pale red tax stamp on first opening small defect to final page of engraved view due to adhesion probably binding fault see image. A good plus copy. Bondy Miniature Books pages 39-41; Welsh Bibliography of Miniature Books 4628. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> (London), Printed for the Company of Stationers (1824).
52754London: William Pickering M.DCCC.XXVII. 1827 . A very good full leather binding. 16mo. 3.2" x 2.2" x .0.8" 82mm x 55mm x 20mm pp.xix/1p./pp.442. Black polished calf. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title: "Walton's Lives". All page edges gilt. Thin blue silk marker ribbon. Inner gilt dentelles. Original yellow endpapers. Gift dedication to front free-endpaper: "To Lady Lechmere from W.C.E.S. 24 March 1897." Engraved frontispiece by Aug. Fox after T. Stothard. Clean text throughout. VG. Katherine Horsfall Wright 1869 - 1955 married Edmund Arthur Lechmere 1865 - 1937 4th Baronet and lived at Severn End Hamley Worcestershire. The marriage took place on 01/03/1897 when of course she became Lady Lechmere. London: William Pickering, M.DCCC.XXVII. [1827] . hardcover
48652<p>London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1839. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham. Inscribed June 1839 in ink and pencil on front pastedown miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Royal Psalmist vignette on title page and 46 very good full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the first on the list. Bound in the original publisher's dark green fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine just very slightly faded gilt bright a touch of wear to top of spine and a pinhead chip to cloth at top of upper hinge minute chip to lower edge of page 59/60. A very good clean tight copy. Episodes from the Old Testament retold for children. Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh or Osborne. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> hardcover
49870<p>London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1839. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham inscribed February 1839 on front pastedown miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Royal Psalmist vignette on title page and 46 very good full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the first on the list. Bound in the original publisher's brown fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine just very slightly faded gilt bright very slight wear to top of spine with 1 minute nick lower hinge faded a little very light staining to covers front endpapers very lightly soiled contents clean. A very good tight copy. Episodes from the Old Testament retold for children. Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh or Osborne. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839). hardcover
49871<p>London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1839. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham. Inscribed June 1839 in pencil on front pastedown miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Holy Family vignette on title page and 46 full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the 2nd. Bound in the original publisher's maroon fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine faded gilt bright a touch of wear to top of spine tiny damp spot to upper corner of upper cover. A very good clean tight copy. The New Testament abridged and illustrated for the use of children. Osborne I 147; Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839). hardcover
51607<p>London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1840. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham. Circa 1840 miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Kyloe Ox vignette on title page and 46 full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the 4th. Bound in the original publisher's dark blue fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. No inscriptions a very good plus clean copy. Mostly British animals many dogs not quite all quadrupeds: 2 of the last British Quadrupeds described and illustrated are The Bat and The Ichneumon the latter almost worshipped by the Egyptians who 'esteem it so much that they keep it in their houses as we do the cat'. Welsh A Bibliography of Miniature Books No. 4890; Osborne II 830; Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1840). hardcover
52496<p>London Tilt & Bogue Fleet Street 1840. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by Bradbury and Evans. Circa 1840 miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of Queen Victoria on horseback vignette on title page and 46 full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: vi 7-191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 12 titles in this series ours being the last. Bound in the original publisher's green fine grained blind stamped cloth gilt vignette of the Duke of Wellington to upper cover gilt floral decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine faded with 1 tiny water spot gilt bright child's name on front endpaper very little faint brown spotting on plate page 6 plate page 121 and text page 12 tiny touch of pink paint on plate page 21 and plate page 29 pencilled comment mostly erased in upper margin of text page 40. Otherwise a very good copy. Short biographies of the kings and queens of England from William I to Victoria. The readers are advised to procure a medal struck in honour of Queen Victoria's marriage in 1840. Welsh A Bibliography of Miniature Books No. 4453; Osborne I page 169; Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street, (1840). hardcover
3250Worcester Mass. : Achille J. St. Onge 1945. . 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches red cloth both covers heavily gilt gilt spine title. A.e.g. One of 2000 copies copies printed by the Merrymount Press. MINT condition. Contains all four addresses See Bradbury p.252 no. 5 Worcester [Mass.] : Achille J. St. Onge, 1945. hardcover
1911134261Glasgow: Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Glasgow Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son 1911 first thus/ 1896. A thumb Bible 45 × 31 × 27 mm vi 876 pages with 28 full-page illustrations; a tiny magnifying glass is loosely inserted in an endpocket. Full leather extensively decorated in blind with 'Coronation Bible 1911' lettered in blind on the spine; leather a little rubbed at the extremities; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Issued in honour of the Coronation of King George V this is a reprint of the 1896 edition 'the earliest complete miniature Bible . These Bryce Bibles are embellished with 28 full-page line illustrations reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch' Louis W. Bondy: 'Miniature Books' 1981. Spielmann 24 not noting this edition; Bondy pages 108-111. Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son hardcover
51174New York: Oxford University Press American Branch Printed In England / Nimmo Hay & Mitchell Ltd. London nd. - c. 1919 . A Miniature facsimile edition. Judged to be one of the smallest complete bibles ever produced. The title bears the words "Printed by Authority"; and on verso is a copy of the licence granted to Nimmo Hay & Mitchell Ltd. to publish this edition. Printed upon the very thinnest Oxford India Paper. With twenty-eight illustrations by C. B. Birch A.R.A." pp.674. The exact size of the page is 42mm x 28mm. A magnifying glass is supplied in a pocket to the verso of the front cover. Similar to Herbert:2064 / D&M: 1306. This copy is bound in contemporary tan calf with intricate blind-stamped decoration and the gilt title:"Holy Bible" to the spine. Inscription to front endpaper. Separate half-title to New Testament followed by "Shakespeare Family Records". Booksellers label to rear endpaper: "William J. Hay. Antiquarian & Bookseller. Bought At Knox's House In The High Street Edinburgh." Clean pages and text throughout with creased corners. VG. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch (Printed In England) / [Nimmo Hay & Mitchell Ltd. London ] [ nd. - c. 1919 ] unknown
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
53273<p>London Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd. New York H.B. Claflin Co. 1905. Early undated issue circa 1905 miniature book 79 x 79 mm 3 x 3 inches blue cloth red brown black and white illustration to upper cover top edges red 83 pages. 20 coloured plates each facing text both printed on thick card 1 side only. Spine and upper cover slightly rubbed very small pale mark to a couple of pages stitching slightly slack some inner joints cracked but binding sound. A very good copy. Set in Egypt a fairy story about a hippo and Prince Boochus the Pharoah's son. No. 8 in a list of 9 Humpty Dumpty Books for Children inside upper cover 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.</p> London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd., New York, H.B. Claflin Co., (1905). hardcover
1903ST20237New York: The Gorham Manufacturing Co 1903. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES. 102 x 64 mm. 4 x 2 1/2". 4 p.l. 9-148 pp. <br/> CHARMING PUBLISHER'S LIMP SUEDE illustrated covers with a rotund golfer on front and a long-suffering caddy at rear top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. In a later glassine wrapper. Housed in a very sturdy custom-made buckram folding box with inlaid marbled spine label. Color floral and foliate headpieces tailpieces and title page and 16 DELIGHTFUL MOUNTED COLOR PLATES BY JOHN HASSALL. Front endpaper with the ownership inscription "W. P. Rockwell November 1905." Murdoch 888; Donovan & Murdoch 19030. Trivial smudges to the suede but A NEARLY PRISTINE COPY of this delightful little book an item that is simply never found this well preserved.<br/> <br/> This is a diminutive golf manual with immense charm and offered in the most immaculate condition possible. In a small-pocket format the book provides the golfer with the game's rules etiquette technical terms names of golf clubs and their various uses a list of American champions since the organization of the United States Golf Association and a roster of the "leading players in the United States." Accompanying the text are a group of quite charming colored plates done by John Hassall 1868-1948 an active and celebrated watercolorist poster designer and illustrator from 1895 onwards. Houfe calls him "an original and versatile designer." As can be seen in the present volume Hassall seems to have been influenced by "the flat colors and two-dimensional decorative quality of Japanese prints which he adapts to his own work with thick outline and careful patterning." Whatever the influence one can't help but smile when looking at his work. Hassall depicts golf costume through the ages here including golfers in kilts trousers cloaks knickers and other attire; he also shows us a pair of disarmingly shabby young caddies two women and a boy incongruously dressed in Napoleonic greatcoat and tricorn hat. The most memorable thing about this item is its condition: as a book intended to be put in one's pocket and as a volume that was never sturdy to begin with there is absolutely no explanation for how our copy has survived to the present day in its remarkable state of preservation. When this copy without its box was sold in 2004 at PBA Galleries the most prominent auction purveyor of golf books and equipment the catalogue called it "the finest copy we have ever offered of this exceedingly scarce and fragile book.". The Gorham Manufacturing Co unknown
1979ABE-1594062113305Opuscula Press New York 1979 Miniature book 2" x 2 5/8". Blue cloth in lightly soiled dust jacket with a small hole bottom rear edge. 54pp. Illustrated with examples of bookplates tipped in. #83/300 copies handbound & signed by Robert Hanson publisher. From the inventory of Former bookstore in Tokyo known as the Lilliput Oval Saloon. When the shop opened in 1979 founded by Kazushige Onuma it was the world s first all-miniature bookstore. Dealer's label fixed to rear paste down. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Opuscula Press, New York hardcover
200418945AB2004. Scotland 2004 27 : 185 cm. 47 püages with many coloured illustrations. Original cloth. Shows hundreds of different miniature books. - Together with: BHUTAN. 2004. 71 pages with 181 illustrations in colour. - Same annotations in English but mostly in Corean. hardcover
53271<p>London Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd 1904. FIRST EDITION 1904 75 x 75 mm 3 x 3 inches buff cloth blue red and black illustration to upper cover top edges green 99 pages. Black and white title illustration and 24 jolly colour plates each facing a page of text all printed on thick card 1 side only. Lovely story about baron's little son's pet blue rabbit. Expertly restitched new front endpaper so lacking list of other titles in the series. Very occasional very slight pale brown spotting child's inscription on blank reverse of first text page. A very good bright copy. No. 4 in The Humpty Dumpty Books for Children series 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.</p> London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, 1904. hardcover
45866Oxford: Printed at the University Press. / London: Henry Frowde. no date - C.1900. Diam. 96mo - Cum Privilego. 9cm x 3cm x 1cm. Half title followed by printed title. Prayer book; p.77-p.342. "Psalms Of David."; p.413-p.599. Please note pagination is as stated and there are no pages missing. AEG. Full red leather with gilt title:"Common Prayer" to both front cover and spine. VG. See L. W. Bondy: Miniature Books p.132 . Oxford: Printed at the University Press. / London: Henry Frowde. (no date - C.1900). hardcover
51281London:Hamilton Adams And Co. Paternoster Row MDCCCXXXII. 1832 . A very good 19th century miniature book. Original full leather wrap-round wallet style binding. 64mo. 67mm x 54mm x 10mm. pp.124. Dark maroon calf. Leather flap with small repair. Rubbed gilt title to flap. Ink inscription to front-endpaper. Colophon to verso of the title-page and bottom of last leaf: "Sedding And Turtle Arundle Street Strand." Clean text throughout just light soiling commensurate with age. Calendar arrangement with a Bible quotation for each day of the year including February 29th. Date of publication from COPAC British Library. London:Hamilton, Adams And Co., Paternoster Row, MDCCCXXXII. [ 1832 ] . hardcover
53101London : Pub. by A. Schloss 12 Berners Str. Oxford Str. 1838 . One of the famous Schloss's Bijou almanacs illustrated with 6 engraved plates by Letitia E. Landon. 36mo 20 x 14mm. Engraved frontispiece 5 engraved plates. Light water stain to last leaf and light foxing to a couple of leaves. Ornate gilt decorated dark green leather over thin card covers. just light rubbing to the edges and the gilt decoration. G. "A miracle of fine and delicate engraving done consistently and beautifully to an almost unbelievably tiny scale." - See Percy E. Spielmann. London : Pub. by A. Schloss, 12 Berners Str. Oxford Str. [1838] . hardcover
52292<p>London Wells Gardner Darton 1899. FIRST EDITION IN THIS SMALL FORMAT 1899 85 x 64 mm 3¼ x 2½ inches buff paper wraps yapp edges orange and green illustration to covers and spine 148 pages. Frontispiece title illustration 5 black and white plates and 14 text illustrations all by Richard Doyle. Not really a doll story: a wooden doll maker is punished for his laziness and his envy of his neighbour a silversmith by a black fairy called Malice and her alter ego an enchanted black doll which grows in size as the doll maker becomes more discontented. Slightly worn at head and tail of spine with 3 mm 1/8" splits very slight small stain on upper and lower covers spine slightly darkened small margin tear repaired on 1 text page. A very good copy. This popular story was first published with these illustrations as an 8vo in 1849 Osborne I366 reprinted by Alexander Moring in 1903 with 13 plates but only 6 text illustrations. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, Wells Gardner, Darton, 1899. paperback
51592<p>London Humphrey Milford 1919. SECOND EDITION circa 1919 first published by Henry Frowde circa 1910 miniature book approximately 64 x 55 mm 2½ x 2¼ inches pink boards string binding as issued pretty mounted colour plate of dolly green and red holly patterned endpapers 63 pages. Coloured frontispiece showing dolly in a different outfit title illustration and tailpiece in line unsigned. Mabel May whose nursery is packed with dolls of all kinds whom she severely ill-treats is taught a lesson by a new arrival. Spine a touch faded no inscriptions contents bright and clean. A Fine crisp copy in Fine slipcase with repeat colour plate. Books in this little series are often found lacking frontispiece as with use the string cuts through its inner margin. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, Humphrey Milford, (1919). hardcover
197072121Worchester: Achille St. Onge 1970. One of 1000 copies printed by the Stamperia Valdonega. 64mo. 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches. Publisher's full blue morocco gilt spine and cover lettering gray endpapers all edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription else and excellent copy. Achille St. Onge unknown
1976216907Worcester Mass.: Achille J. St. Onge 1976. One of 1000 printed from Bembo type on Magnani paper at Stampria Valdonega. 52 2 pp. 1 vols. 2-1/2 by 1-7/8; 65x48mm. Blue morocco t.e.g. Fine. One of 1000 printed from Bembo type on Magnani paper at Stampria Valdonega. 52 2 pp. 1 vols. 2-1/2 by 1-7/8; 65x48mm. <br/><br/> Achille J. St. Onge unknown
51468London: Chapman & Hall Limited 1904 . Miniature book. 58mm x 40mm x 9mm. pp.390. Tan suede yapp binding over limp overs. Gilt title to spine. All page edges gilt. Green marbled endpapers creased and rubbed. Clean text and illustrations throughout just a few creased corners. VG London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1904 . unknown
1930ST20235London: Harrods Ltd 1930s. FIRST EDITION. 76 x 51 mm. 3 x 2". 100 pp. <br/> Original green or orange paper wrappers side stitched titling on front cover and imprint on spine. In a custom-made folding buckram box with book wells for the three books and gilt-stamped marbled paper label inset on spine of the box. Consisting of three bound sets of 50 sequential photographs that when flipped either from back to front or front to back generate a stop motion animation of Bobby Jones demonstrating the proper form for executing a shot with various golf clubs see below. Advertisements on inside wrappers. Donovan & Murdoch 22610. One volume with portions of spine gone at either end with partial loss of imprint wrappers inevitably somewhat soiled corners a bit rounded as expected but still remarkably well preserved especially considering its inevitable hard use being entirely sound and with the photographs in excellent condition.<br/> <br/> This is a scarce grouping of some of the most charming sports as well as miniature books we've ever offered for sale. In the 1930s the famous London department store Harrods published a series of so-called sports "flicker" books of which these three are perhaps the most famous other sports books involved cricket tennis lacrosse soccer badminton swimming and greyhound racing. Our three "flicker" books when the pages are riffled with one's thumb or fingers show the famous smooth-swinging American golfer Bobby Jones executing shots with various clubs. The first book #11a in the Harrods series features the driver and the mashie. The modern equivalent for this latter piece of equipment is slightly elusive but the "mashie" is an iron club with considerable loft meant to hit a golf ball a relatively short distance with a high trajectory Jones' "driver" has the same meaning today as it did 90 years ago. The second book features shots with a "brassie" roughly equivalent to today's 3- or 4-wood and an "iron" also called a "driving iron" which is like today's 1- or 2-iron. The third book shows Jones putting and escaping from heavy rough with a high-lofted club like today's sand wedge. It is great fun--not to mention still instructive--to riffle through these photographs watching one of the world's most celebrated golf swings come to life complete with Jones' knickers white shirt and flapping tie. It is also a fact of some interest that this English series would feature an American player at a time when British dominance in golf was beginning to erode. Given the physical use to which these items have been subjected it is difficult to believe that they are still intact let alone that they are solid enough to be handled without worry. Harrods Ltd unknown
