{"title":"Doll's House Sized Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ugly-duckling-anderson-hans-christian-isbn-10-0906005329-isbn-13-9780906005323-published-by-gleniffer-press-wigtown-1997-used-condition-as-new-hardcover","title":"Anderson, Hans Christian. Ugly Duckling. ISBN 10: 0906005329 \/ ISBN 13: 9780906005323 Published by Gleniffer Press, Wigtown, 1997. Used Condition: As New. Hardcover. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\"\u003eUgly Duckling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\"\u003eGleniffer Press, Wigtown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\"\u003e1997\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\"\u003eAs New\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMicro-Miniature Book. 64mo. 39 printed pages. 18 x 23.5 mm. CrimsonNovalite Leather Boards, Gilt stamped title on cover. As New.  Original packaging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gleniffer Press of Paisley and Wigtown was founded in 1967 by Helen and Ian Macdonald as a hobby private press, producing home and business stationery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy the early 1970s, the press became noted throughout the world for making miniature books and was active in this field until 2007, when it closed after 40 years. By then it had produced 57 different titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"floatright\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"imgcap\"\u003eIn all 13,500 little books were reckoned to have been hand-bound during the life of the press.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"imgcap\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Macdonalds were among the founding members of the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbs.org\/\" title=\"External site link\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.mbs.org\/\"\u003eMiniature Book Society\u003c\/a\u003e, which still thrives to this day. Helen and Ian were elected honorary members of the society on their retirement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42653252485333,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/P3112548.jpg?v=1647023790"},{"product_id":"smallest-english-dictionary-in-the-world-comprising-besides-the-ordinary-and-newest-words-in-the-language-short-explanations-of-a-large-number-of-scientific-philosophical-literary-and-technical-terms-publication-date-1900","title":"Smallest English Dictionary in the World. Comprising: besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary and technical terms. Publication Date: 1900. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSmallest English Dictionary in the World. ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Bryce \u0026amp; sons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1900\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e384 printed pages. India paper. Portrait frontispiece of Dr. Samuel Johnson. One of the Mite Series. All edges yellow. Some leaves slightly bowed at corners. 20 x 27 mm. Original red roan leather (very slightly rubbed and marked with minor bowing towards the corners). Gilt title on front. \"Pears\" in gilt on back, advertising well-known carbolic soap tradename. This is one of a number of minuscule books published by Bryce by the process of photographic reduction. They are all legible with a magnifying glass and the equivalent of 1 1\/2-point. This is number 18 in Ruth Adomeit's List of 32 Basic Books for the Serious Collector. Although \"thousands of these dictionaries were published, they are now becoming distinctly scarce and command steadily rising prices\" [Bondy]. Bondy 106-7. Garbett 25-6. Spielmann 464-5. Welsh 2408. 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Publication Date: 1896 Condition: Good. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSmallest French And English Dictionary In ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Bryce \u0026amp; sons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1896\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003evii,648(1) printed pages. Printed on fine india paper. Photo reduction technique employed to produce text in three columns. Last printed page covers English coins and measurements. Yellow edges (toned). Yellow endpapers (stained with contemporary ownership inscription in ink to the rear). Historic damp stains to first 156 pages, slightly affecting legibility of text. Half title slightly loose. 21 x 28 mm. Original maroon leather, with gilt titles to the front and spine and an advert for Pears' soap to the rear (\"Savon PEARS Soap\"). Discolouration particularly to upper cover. Complete with original metal case (with magnifier and loop at top). Rubbing and discolouration to the outside of the case which inside is brighter silver. Contains more than 5,000 words, sentences and idiomatic phrases. Considering the size of the print, it is unexpectably readable with the magnifier. This famous publishing firm was started in 1832 in Glasgow, Scotland and went into miniature books from 1876 until 1913, when it permanently closed down. Although thousands of these dictionaries were issued, according to Bondy, they are now becoming quite scarce and are much rarer than the Smallest English Dictionary in the World. Bondy, 107. Garbett, 26. Spielmann, 162. Welsh, 2425. Seller Inventory # 5196\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43403239129301,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/IMG_20220730_135521.jpg?v=1659185849"},{"product_id":"quads-for-authors-editors-devils-miniature-tuer-andrew-w-editor-publication-date-1884-condition-very-good","title":"Tuer, Andrew W. (editor). Quads for Authors, Editors, \u0026 Devils. Leadenhalle Presse. 1884. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e146, [18] printed pages, many unopened. Illustrations. Printed in Pearl type on bank note paper of the highest quality. At head of title: Midget folio .The miniature book is embedded in the hollowed out blank leaves at the end of the enlarged edition. The larger book has 94 printed pages- some very occasional spotting, four blank leaves with contemporaneous newspaper cuttings pasted in (Mark Twain with the Typothetae, c. 1886), followed by 2 pages of publisher's adverts. 12 x 15 cm, original vellum, lacking ties; on the upper cover, below the gilt titling is the helpful advice \"In unlocking this Forme see that the QUADS do not drop out\" (priced \"7\/6\"). The miniature book is 27 x 40 mm. Original gilt titled vellum (priced \"2\/6\")with long silk ties (all but one intact). Quads are small metal blanks used by printers to fill up any gaps. The text contains English and American printer's jokes from the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, such as, Figures won't lie! Yes they will if you make em- and then there are four digits printed at 90 degrees from normal along the page. \"One of the most curious items in all printing literature and at the same time a most unusual miniature book\" -Bondy, 149-50. Spielmann, 492. Welsh, 6857. WorldCat locates just 4 UK copies (Universities of Nottingham, Manchester, Oxford \u0026amp; Cambridge). Not only uncommon, particularly so in this condition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411798098133,"sku":"5198","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/P8013343.jpg?v=1659362177"},{"product_id":"schlosss-english-bijou-almanac-for-1841-publication-date-1840-condition-very-good","title":"English Bijou Almanac for 1841. A. Schloss. Publication Date: 1840 Condition: Very Good. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSchloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1841.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA.Schloss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1840\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFour fine portraits of Napoleon, Marie v. Hessen, Caroline Norton (writer of the poems featured here), and I.S.Knowles; one allegorical figure and one view of Caernarvon Castle. Engraved by H.R.Davies in Excelsior, 3-point typeface. Lacks silk place-marker. 14 x 20 mm. Contemporary, elborately gilt-tooled, black, morocco in similarly hand-finished slip case with morocco overlays lettered with title, in hand-made, gilt-tooled fitted box with silk and velvet lining (slightly rubbed, particularly near original metal catch at front; two old labels and one remnant on inside lid and underneath) \u0026amp; tortoiseshell folding miniature magnifying glass (small split near top). The sixth of eight annual issues by Schloss. Caroline Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (1808-77), the grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was a well-known author and a social reformer (and notorious victim of marital injustice). Bondy, 42 (\"They are true miracles of engraving, illustration, binding and presentation. Each of them has six charming plates, almost all of them portraits of famous writers, musicians, painters or stage performers. These portraits are accompanied by poems in praise of the personalities they depict, written by well-known authors of the period. Not infrequently, it is their first appearance in print\"). Joffe, 45. Spielmann, 449 (\"a miracle of fine and delicate engraving, done consistently and beautifully to an almost unbelievably tiny scale\"). Welsh, (though a different year) 6174. Seller Inventory # 5218\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43597459161301,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/IMG_20220912_171710.jpg?v=1662999685"},{"product_id":"small-rain-upon-the-tender-herb-deut-xxxii-2-publication-date-1830-condition-very-good","title":"Small Rain Upon the Tender Herb Deut. xxxii. 2. Publication Date: 1830 Condition: Very Good. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSmall Rain Upon the Tender Herb Deut. xxxii....\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReligious Tract Society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1830\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st edition. 128 printed pages. All edges gilt. Contemporary ink gift inscription on front free endpaper. Printed by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press. 28 x 32 mm. Contemporary green morocco. Spine with three hand-gilded floral devices within horizontal gilt ruled borders. Covers with single fillet gilt borders (very slight wear and bowing of boards). Provenance: \"Martha Downs, the gift of her sister, Jane\". The great religious revival which took place during the 19th century, especially in England, went hand in hand with a flood of devotional books, many of them in miniature format. Some of them were intended both for children and an adult readership. Very popular were the publications issued by the Religious Tract Society in London. As most of them were undated, any dates given here are estimates. A tiny volume, enchantingly entitled Small Rain upon the Tender Herb, belongs to the best-loved miniature books and was obviously much treasured by our Victorian ancestors. The first edition appeared in the early 1830's and many subsequent editions were printed at least up to the 39th edition.The earlier editions were finely printed by C. Whittingham at Chiswick.The type used is 5-point. The contents consist of short Bible extracts for every day of the year and even include the 29th of February (Bondy, 127). Spielmann, 466. Welsh, 6417. 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[SOLID SILVER LOCKET].1893. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSmallest English Dictionary in the World. ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Bryce \u0026amp; sons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1893\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e384 printed pages. Printed on finest India paper. Portrait frontispiece of Dr. Johnson. Mite series. 19 x 28 mm. Original red morocco. Unusual \"Pearson's Miniature Dictionary\" in gilt on upper cover (usually it was Pears -soap manufacturers- that was advertised). Complete with scarce and desirable solid silver locket made by George Unite, Birmingham in 1893 (full set of English hallmarks, Lion rampant, Anchor, date letter \"t\" and maker's initials); built in magnifying glass (scratched) and original silver loop. Bryce offered their dictionaries in a choice of Metal cases (1s.3d.), Tartan (1s.6d.), Yapped leather (2s.0d.), Silver gilt (2s.6d.), Gilt or engraved (3s.6d.) \u0026amp; Silver hallmarked locket (7s.6d.) -this example was the most costly and by far the hardest to find. This is one of a number of minuscule books published by Bryce by the process of photographic reduction. They are all legible with a magnifying glass and the equivalent of 1 1\/2-point. This is number 18 in Ruth Adomeit's List of 32 Basic Books for the Serious Collector. Although \"thousands of these dictionaries were published, they are now becoming distinctly scarce and command steadily rising prices\" [Bondy].Bondy, 106. Garbett, 25. Spielmann, 464. Welsh, 2408. Seller Inventory # 5228\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43648562036949,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/P9243729.jpg?v=1664030775"},{"product_id":"exercice-du-chretien-early-18th-century-miniature-book-publication-date-1737-condition-very-good","title":"Exercice du Chretien [early 18th century miniature book]. Publication Date: 1737 Condition: Very Good. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExercice du Chretien [early 18th century ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarouge, Paris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1737\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e187,[1] printed pages (pages evenly toned; final leaf loose and type close to the gutter offset onto verso of rear free endpaper). Marbled endpapers. 26 x 38 mm. Contemporary brown calf (slightly rubbed and hinges cracked, but firm). Spine with four raised bands (slightly worn at head). Boards blind stamped with corner and centre-pieces and with single fillet borders. Complete with contemporary calf-covered, card slipcase, lined with marbled paper and with blind decoration to match the boards (upper section slightly damaged with tiny corner section of leather rubbed away). Earliest recorded edition of this title in miniature was 45 years earlier, in 1692. Gumuchian, 4077. Houghton, 253. Welsh, 2745. WorldCat locates just three copies world wide (Biliotheque Nationale de Paris, Indiana and Virginia Universities). Delightful and desirable 283 year-old devotional miniature book in contemporary binding and slipcase. 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This housed in an original tartan covered cardboard box with 'Mite Testament' on cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e½\" x 4\". (Though cover's edges overlap somewhat to make this appear minutely larger.) Minute book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSold by a collector in a public auction at Bonhams, 9th November 2022.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e#41\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonhams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43803148714197,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/20221101_120118.jpg?v=1667586939"},{"product_id":"tourists-conversational-guide-in-english-french-german-italian-c1900","title":"Tourists Conversational Guide in English, French, German,  Italian, c1900.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTourists Conversational Guide in English, French, German,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItalian, c1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\"x 3\/4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBound in red leather with title in gilt on front cover, Housed in a white metal (Sterling silver) hinged locket with embossed floral design around inset magnifier and to rear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-this is perhaps the rarest (together English German Dictionary') of this 'Midget Series'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSold by a collector in a public auction at Bonhams, 9th November 2022.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e#66\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonhams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806497865941,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/20221101_120208.jpg?v=1667586406"},{"product_id":"tourists-conversational-guide-in-english-french-german-italian-c1900-1","title":"Tourists Conversational Guide in English, French, German, Italian, c1900.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTourists Conversational Guide in English, French, German, Italian, c1900. 2 copy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 x 3\/4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBound in red leather with title in gilt on front cover. Housed in a white metal hinged locket typical of Bryce with inset magnifier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-this is perhaps the rarest (together English German Dictionary') of this 'Midget Series'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSold by a collector in a public auction at Bonhams, 9th November 2022.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e#83\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonhams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806745788629,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/20221101_115624.jpg?v=1667597145"},{"product_id":"mite-series-in-tartan","title":"Mite Series in Tartan.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMite Series in Tartan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBurns' Poems First Edition 1786; Bryce's English Dictionary, Witty Humorous and Merry Thoughts; Golden Thoughts from Great Authors, English Scotch and trish Songs. Housed in fitted wooden box divided into six compartments. The hinged top consists of a framed piece of glass. Gilt saw-tooth decoration on black paper framing the top, the remainder covered in Bonnie Prince Charlie Tartan paper. The sixth space in the box has a portrait of Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebeneath a magnifying glass Books bound in tartans with silk spines. 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Contains all 12 volumes as follows.... German English Dictionary: French English Dictionary: English Dictionary: Tourist's Conversational Guide in English French German Italian; Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; The Koran: New Testament: Robert Burns: English Scots and Irish Songs: Animals, Birds. [These final two illustrated in hand tinted colour). All in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egood condition with some sign of slight general wear. 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Publication Date: 1919 Condition: Very Good.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-title\"\u003eHoly Bible containing the Old and New Testaments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-publisher\"\u003eOxford University Press. American Branch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-pubdate\"\u003e1919\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-binding\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-bookcondition\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-edition\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e876 printed pages (slightly split inner hinge before title page). 28 full-page line illustrations of testament scenes reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93). It contains notes on the Shakespeare family records and facsimiles of the entries in the parish register, Stratford Upon Avon. Magnifying glass in pocket at front. Licenced to Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell on verso of title-page. All edges red. Original black endpapers. 36 x 50 mm. Original black morocco (extremely light occasional rubbing). Yapp style binding. Bondy, 110. Garbett, 21. Welsh, 566. First published by David Bryce \u0026amp; Son in 1896. This particular copy is in unusually good condition. Seller Inventory # 5257\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43838253629653,"sku":"","price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/PB184124.jpg?v=1668789020"},{"product_id":"the-holy-bible-containing-the-old-and-new-testaments-translated-out-of-the-original-tongues-by-his-majestys-special-command-miniature-book-publication-date-1896-condition-very-good","title":"Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues.by His majesty's special command. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son. London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner.1896  \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BOOK\u003c\u003c","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\"\u003e1st Edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e876 printed pages (final leaf with closed tear). Printed in two columns with frontispiece \u0026amp; 27 engraved full-page illustrations of biblical scenes from drawings by C. B. Birch, A.R.A. . The title bears the words \"Printed by Authority\"; and on verso is a copy of the licence granted to David Bryce to publish this edition dated 1896, an edition of 25,000 copies. Printed upon the very thinnest Oxford India Paper ever made \u0026amp; with a small magnifying glass in the back cover. 28 x 42 mm. Contemporary yapp-style, black morocco, spine with gilt lettering within gilt circle -Holy Bible - all edges gilt David Bryce (1845-1923) was one of the world's most prolific and successful makers of miniature books, entering the book trade at the age of 17 when he was made a partner in his father's publishing house, later becaming sole proprietor on his father's death in 1870. Shortly after this, he started producing the miniature books that were to make him famous. David Bryce \u0026amp; Sons of Glasgow was took an active interest around the turn of the 19th century in the latest technological advances in photolithography and electroplates to allow larger volumes to be reduced to the smallest possible size. Their miniature publications have been prized for their clarity and legibility. With Glasgow University Press, Bryce issued the earliest complete miniature Bible in 1896, at the time the smallest complete bible ever printed, a reduced facsimile of the Oxford sextodecimo edition. Many of them were presented to serving soldiers throughout the British Empire, easily carried in the Boer War campaigns at that time \u0026amp; later in the First World War. Bondy, 108. Garbett, 20. Spielmann, 24. Welsh, 559. A scarce miniature marvel of book production. WorldCat lists four UK institutional library holders. Seller Inventory # 5262\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43853078921429,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/PB254178.jpg?v=1669392672"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-containing-the-old-and-new-testaments-with-lectern-miniature-bible-with-lectern-publication-date-1919-condition-very-good","title":"Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments [with lectern]. \u003e\u003eMINIATURE BIBLE WITH LECTERN\u003c\u003c Publication Date: 1919 CONDITION: VERY GOOD","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-title\"\u003eHoly Bible containing the Old and New Testaments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-publisher\"\u003eOxford University Press. American Branch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-pubdate\"\u003e1919\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-binding\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"biblio-bookcondition\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e876 printed pages on finest India paper. 28 full-page line illustrations of testament scenes reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93) with permission of Messrs S. Bagster \u0026amp; Son. It contains notes on the Shakespeare family records and facsimiles of the entries in the parish register, Stratford Upon Avon, included between Old \u0026amp; New Testaments. 'Licence' to Nimmo Hay and Mitchell on verso title-page indicates 1919 as publication date. All edges red (very slightly marked). 36 x 50 mm. Original brown calf in the antique style, blind-stamped in imitation of 16th century binding. Holy Bible in gilt on spine. Magnifying glass in front cover pocket. Chained with original metal links to wooden Lectern, 8.5 x 15.4 cm. Paper printed label on shelf above pedestal, describes it as a facsimile of those chained bibles found in some English Cathedrals (slightly worn). This particular example is in unusually good condition, more often found rubbed or defective. It was originally sold in a red cardboard box with a printed label - but this rarely survives and sadly not present here. Bondy, 109. Bromer\/Edison, 77. Spielmann, 25. Welsh, 566.  OCLC, 1013974681. WorldCat locates 1 copy worldwide (Iowa University library). Seller Inventory # 5278\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43995340701909,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/products\/P2094367.jpg?v=1675943987"},{"product_id":"poems-chiefly-in-scottish-dialect-kilmarnock-printed-by-john-wilson-1796-burns-robert-rare-miniature-classic-publication-date-1899-condition-very-good","title":"Burns, Robert. Poems chiefly in Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock, Printed by John Wilson, 1796.  \u003e\u003eRARE MINIATURE CLASSIC\u003c\u003c Publication Date: 1899 CONDITION: VERY GOOD","description":"\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\"\u003ePoems chiefly in Scottish dialect. ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\"\u003eBryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\"\u003e1899\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\"\u003eSoft cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eviii, 240 printed pages on grey paper (some mild age-toning and some marks on text-block). Bryce, Mite Series \u0026amp; Bryce, Midget Books. Facsimile of 1796 Kilmarnock edition. Illustrations. 19 x 28mm. Original printed grey wrappers, reproducing title page of rare 1796 first edition, spine blank (mild age-toning). This printed binding pre-dates the later red or blue hardback bindings. Spielmann categorises this edition as \"rare\". Bondy, 113. Garbett, 27. Houghton, 108. Spielmann, 69. Welsh, 1535. WorldCat locates just two copies that are both in USA and one of those is described with the later hardback binding. 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Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1895\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[519] printed pages (some pages thumbed and foxed). All edges red (some marginal pigmentation seeping onto pages). Printed by Robert Maclehose, Glasgow University Press. Number seven in the \"Midget Library\"series with original inset magnifying glass tin case -that is too big for the size of the book, as usual- with loop, showing a globe resting on books (lacquer worn, some tiny rust patches and three miniscule dents in the back). \"The publishers beg to thank the Oxford University Press for enabling them to produce in this tiny form a facsimile of their Pica 16mo New Testament, printed on the very thinnest Oxford India paper ever made\" printed on verso of half-title. One of the smallest of all Bryce miniature books and the smallest New Testament ever printed. \"Staggeringly small\"-Bondy. 16 x 18 mm. Original blue morocco (a little rubbed with a blue ring mark on the back cover). Bondy, 111. Garbett, 30-1. Pistner, B233:2. Spielmann, 388. Welsh, 787. OCLC, 877427799. WorldCat locates 12 copies worldwide. 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Glasgow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-pubdate\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1914\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-binding\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-bookcondition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"biblio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"biblio-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st Edition thus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15, 876 printed pages. Additional title, \"Four National Anthems [God Save the King, La Marseillaise, La Brabanconne, and Russian National Anthem]. Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling. Evening Prayer of a People, by Neil Munro\". 28 full-page line-illustrations, reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93). A reduced facsimile of the Oxford Nonpareil 16mo edition. All edges red. Original cream endpapers. 30 x 46 mm. Original khaki buckram (some light soiling; spine slightly twisted and gatherings minutely sprung out of perfect alignment; inner hinges cracked but firm). Holy Bible stamped in gilt on spine (faded). Original magnifier in a pocket at the back. Originally retailed for a shilling. This copy has been used and more likely than not, been taken to France or Belgium during the First world War. The hard-wearing dull coloured buckram was deliberately selected for camouflage and to last the length of a campaign - this miniature bible weighs one ounce and was perfectly sized to be carried in a soldier's pocket. The binding was not used on any other Bryce edition, to my knowledge. Bondy described the Allies Bible as much rarer than the other variants. Bondy, 110. Garbett, 22. Welsh, 564. OCLC, 84968988. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (University of Cambridge). Seller Inventory # 5441\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45776123363541,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P2035975.jpg?v=1706977957"},{"product_id":"bijou-history-of-england-rock-and-co-london-complete-in-two-volumes-circa-1845","title":"Bijou History of England. Rock and Co. [London]. Complete in two volumes. Circa 1845.","description":"Bijou History of England. Rock and Co. Publishers of Albums and Games on History, Science,and Destiny. [London]. 1845 Complete in two volumes. Circa 1845. 1-144, (unnumbered title page), 145-288 printed pages which include full-page woodcut portraits of the monarchs. Original pale yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. 35 x 45 mm. Original green leather; gilt decorsated spines; back and front covers with lozenge centre motifs within elaborate gilt borders and gilt titling on the front covers. Extremely minor rubbing. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. Welsh, 1274. Welsh 1274 locates one copy only, in an early Bondy catalogue. A rare and charming set in good condition. OCLC, 7969605. WorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide (Iowa, Virginia and two examples in Indiana Libraries).  #OABA4 5454\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45851711799509,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P2126046.jpg?v=1707750891"},{"product_id":"miniature-quran-or-koran-david-bryce-son-1896","title":"Koran or Qu'ran. David Bryce \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1896.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eKoran or Qu'ran. David Bryce \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1896. Circa 800 printed pages. Fine India paper, supplied by Henry Frowde. Lithographed text and marginal decoration, printed in Arabic within ruled borders (minuscule marginal tear in gutter of title page) . Original marbled endpapers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e1906 date suggested by D.V. Welsh. But Myrvold and Parmenter state that the Korans were first published in 1896, with reprints in 1899 and 1907. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e19 x 26 mm.  Original red and elaborately stamped gilt morocco, with lotus motifs and scrolling curlicue decoration. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginal pressed brass locket shaped and embossed to resemble a miniature book (straight-grained with ruled corner-pieces and a spine with raised bands and star motif decorations) with a loop at the top, magnifier on the front and Registration number at the bottom (528948). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBryce's miniature Qu'rans are photolithographic reductions of 19th-century Ottoman editions of famous calligrapher Hafiz Osman's Qur'ans: they were based on the 1871 edition, complete with the signatures and seal impressions of the ten Islamic scholars at back and an 1884 edition from Istanbul that provided the Imperial press colophon reproduced here in full. The Sultan and scholar-backed certificate was a legal assertion of the accuracy of the text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eUsually offered by the publisher in oblong tin, brass or silver lockets with hinged door and inset magnifier. Occasionally issued as one of a twelve-volume set in a metal shelved glass case with the heading \"Midget Library,\" accompanied by separate miniature magnifying glass; case then fits into an angled wooden stand. Many copies with lockets were supplied to Indian and other Muslim soldiers fighting for the British in the Second Boer War and later World War I, where they were worn as pendants and objects of fascination that carried talismanic properties, as well as serving as functional Qur'ans for reading with the help of the magnifying glass . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Indian Soldiers' Fund (in 1914, the British Indian Army was as much as one third of the entire British fighting force, and over half  - more than 150,000 - were Muslims) were instrumental in obtaining and distributing miniature Qu'rans at hospitals (but not packed in boxes with signs for the Red Cross) and the front lines. At least 3,000 copies of this Koran were also bought and distributed by Jewish benefactor, Alfred Ezra, who wrote to Bryce \"On receiving one. the man will stand up, put the book over his head and touch each eye with it, and then kiss the book with reverence. They nearly all wear them round their necks, and say that this protects them from all harm\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThis book shaped brass container is highly unusual and very scarce. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAn \"almost legendary title published by Bryce … The bindings vary from richly gilt-stamped red or black morocco with gilt edges to plain stiff wrappers and yellow edges . . .[and] increasingly difficult to find copies\" (Bondy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eMiniature Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e [1981] 111–2). In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Seven Pillars of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e (Book 4, Chapter 53) T. E. Lawrence wrote: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"[Auda] told me later, in strict confidence, that thirteen years before he had bought an amulet Koran for one hundred and twenty pounds and had not since been wounded. . . . The book was a Glasgow reproduction, costing eighteen pence; but Auda’s deadliness did not let people laugh at his superstition.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA similar edition is in the Queen Mary's Dolls' House in Windsor Castle. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBondy, 111-2. Garbett, 29. Pistner, B233:6. Spielmann, 28. Welsh, 4174. OCLC,  1053056481. WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Washington and North Texas University Libraries). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e7 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46020200235221,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P2296470.jpg?v=1710586017"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-containing-old-and-new-testaments-bryce-david-son-glasgow-1912-memento-of-ulster-day-28-september-1912","title":"Ulster Day Holy Bible containing Old and New testaments. Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1912. Memento of Ulster Day 28 September 1912.","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoly Bible containing Old and New testaments. Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1912. Memento of Ulster Day 28 September 1912. Printed on front endpapers is 'Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant' with a Red Hand in Shield, to top left. Complete with magnifier in back pocket and complete with rare printed dust-jacket (unrepaired and in good condition with slight edge-wear). All edges yellow. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e32 x 45 mm. Original dark blue embossed calf (I believe this is the only edition of this particular bible that Bryce had bound in this blue). Spine has two horizontal ruled lines embossed with Holy Bible above and 1912 below. Between is written 'A Memento of Ulster day 28 September. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Covenant was signed by Sir Edward Carson \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e(leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e) - his facsimile signature is printed here on the front free endpaper - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eand more than half a million other Protestants, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e introduced by Asquith's British Government that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e Out of the Covenant, the Ulster Volunteer Force was born and, after Ireland's post World War One partition, sectarian attacks grew more widespread. The UVF lasted several years before being  absorbed into the Ulster Special Constabulary in the 1920s. This edition was not mentioned by Garbett and nor has it been documented elswhere, to  my knowledge. I have only ever seen this and two other examples for sale, both without the exceptionally rare dust-jacket. WorldCat locates zero copies of this edition worldwide. 28 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46148982702293,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3116898.jpg?v=1710161284"},{"product_id":"new-testament-of-the-lord-and-saviour-jesus-christ-bryce-david-son-glasgow-1895","title":"New Testament of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1895.","description":"New Testament of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1895. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 unnumbered pages, 4-220 printed pages. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePrinter's statement:  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"The publishers beg to thank the Oxford University Press for enabling them to produce in this tiny form a facsimile of their Pica 16mo New Testament, printed on the very thinnest Oxford India paper ever made\" - printed on the verso of half-title. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn original mauchline tartanware wooden McFarlane clan tartan case with magnifier built in. One of the smallest of all Bryce miniature books and the smallest New Testament ever printed. \"Staggeringly small\"-Bondy. Facsimile of Oxford Pica 16mo and printed on the \"very thinnest Oxford Paper ever made\". 16 x 18 mm. Original blue morocco (somewhat rubbed from insertion into and removal from the case).  Also is\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esued by publisher as one of a twelve-volume set in a metal shelved glass case with the heading \"Midget Library,\" accompanied by miniature magnifying glass; case then fits into an angled wooden stand. \u003c\/span\u003eBondy, 111. Pistner, B233:2. Spielmann, 388. Welsh, 787. OCLC, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e256915722\u003c\/span\u003e. WorldCat locates 5 copies worldwide.  32 firsts2024","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46188517327061,"sku":"","price":595.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3146973.jpg?v=1710440127"},{"product_id":"new-testament-of-the-lord-and-saviour-jesus-christ-bryce-david-son-glasgow-1896","title":"New Testament of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1895.","description":"New Testament of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1895. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 unnumbered pages, 4-220 printed pages. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePrinter's statement:  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"The publishers beg to thank the Oxford University Press for enabling them to produce in this tiny form a facsimile of their Pica 16mo New Testament, printed on the very thinnest Oxford India paper ever made\" - printed on the verso of half-title. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn floral engraved silver-plated solid case with magnifier \u0026amp; with loop. One of the smallest of all Bryce miniature books and the smallest New Testament ever printed. \"Staggeringly small\"-Bondy. Facsimile of Oxford Pica 16mo and printed on the \"very thinnest Oxford Paper ever made\". 16 x 18 mm. Original blue morocco (somewhat rubbed from insertion into and removal from the case).  Also is\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esued by publisher as one of a twelve-volume set in a metal shelved glass case with the heading \"Midget Library,\" accompanied by miniature magnifying glass; case then fits into an angled wooden stand. \u003c\/span\u003eBondy, 111. Pistner, B233:2. Spielmann, 388. Welsh, 787. OCLC, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e256915722\u003c\/span\u003e. WorldCat locates 5 copies worldwide.  33 firsts2024","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46188894945493,"sku":"","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3146974.jpg?v=1710440202"},{"product_id":"new-testament-of-the-lord-and-saviour-jesus-christ-bryce-david-son-glasgow-1897","title":"New Testament of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1895.","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Testament of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1895. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 unnumbered pages, 4-220 printed pages. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePrinter's statement:  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"The publishers beg to thank the Oxford University Press for enabling them to produce in this tiny form a facsimile of their Pica 16mo New Testament, printed on the very thinnest Oxford India paper ever made\" - printed on the verso of half-title. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eOriginal black endpapers. All edges red. One or two gatherings slightly sprung. Some leaves with corners creased and some marginal bleeding from red page edges. In original pressed tin locket\/ case with magnifier \u0026amp; with loop. One of the smallest of all Bryce miniature books and the smallest New Testament ever printed. \"Staggeringly small\"-Bondy. Facsimile of Oxford Pica 16mo and printed on the \"very thinnest Oxford Paper ever made\". 16 x 18 mm. Original blue morocco, gilt titling to spine (somewhat rubbed from insertion into and removal from the case).  Also is\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esued by publisher as one of a twelve-volume set in a metal shelved glass case with the heading \"Midget Library,\" accompanied by miniature magnifying glass; case then fits into an angled wooden stand. \u003c\/span\u003eBondy, 111. Pistner, B233:2. Spielmann, 388. Welsh, 787. OCLC, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e256915722\u003c\/span\u003e. WorldCat locates 5 copies worldwide.  34 firsts2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46203205157077,"sku":"","price":240.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3156984.jpg?v=1710585755"},{"product_id":"bijou-pictures-of-paris-rock-co-london-1850-miniature-book","title":"Bijou Picture of Paris. Rock \u0026 Co. London. 1850.","description":"Bijou Pictures of Paris. Rock \u0026amp; Co. London. 1850. Circa 1850. Frontispiece and 30 engraved plates of landmarks on 32 leaves. Engraved throughout. Some light spotting. Inner hinges cracked but holding firmly. Old sewn repair to spine. Spielmann describes it as \"rare\". Extremely mild age-toning. Original primrose endpapers. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of \"Sibermann\", dated 1892, on front free endpaper. 25 x 30 mm. Original publisher's dark red leather. Stab bound. Front cover with \"Bijou Picture of Paris\" in gilt within diamond gilt frame and scrolling floreate corner-pieces. Spine a little rubbed. Bondy, 152. Spielmann, 59. Welsh, 1283. OCLC, 270993155. WorldCat locates 11 copies worldwide, including only one UK library (University of Oxford).  41 firsts2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46245545869525,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3187126.jpg?v=1710782494"},{"product_id":"english-bijou-almanac-for-1839-poetically-illustrated-by-l-e-l-i-e-letitia-elizabeth-landon-schloss-a-london-1839","title":"English Bijou Almanac for 1839. Poetically illustrated by L.E.L. [i.e. Letitia Elizabeth Landon]. Schloss, A. [London]. 1838","description":"English Bijou Almanac for 1839. Poetically illustrated by L.E.L. [i.e. Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon]. Schloss, Albert. [London]. 1838. [53] printed pages. Portraits of Duke of Wellington, Lady Blessington, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Beethoven \u0026amp; Giuditta Pasta, soprano. Contains dedicated laudatory poems by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a historical calendar and information on royal and noble families. All edges gilt. Original dark green endpapers. With matching leather slipcase and tortoiseshell miniature magnifying glass, with oval blue onlay, gilt date and hand-tooled floral decoration (slightly chipped). Complete with original straight-grained burgundy velvet covered presentation case, lined with cream satin (slightly worn). 13 x 20 mm. Original burgundy morocco, with gilt spine titling,  blue oval central onlays within elaborate gilt scrolling borders on the covers. Engraved entirely with the burin (but not signed) by Benjamin Rees Davies on a single steel plate measuring about 223 x 147 mm; Davies engraved all the vertical parallel strokes throughout a line before turning the plate to complete the horizontal and joining curves of the letters. Each steel plate took at least 13 weeks of unremitting labour. The type is less than 3-point and the sheets were probably printed by McQueen.   Joffe, 43. Spielmann, 447. Welsh, 2658. OCLC, 34961632. WorldCat locates 13 copies worldwide. 69 firsts2024","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46270868750549,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3207194.jpg?v=1710935049"},{"product_id":"english-bijou-almanac-for-1839-poetically-illustrated-by-l-e-l-schloss-a-london-1838","title":"English Bijou Almanac for 1839. Poetically illustrated by L.E.L. Schloss, A. [London]. 1838.","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnglish Bijou Almanac for 1839. Poetically illustrated by L.E.L. Schloss, A. [London]. 1838. [53] printed pages. Portraits of Duke of Wellington, Lady Blessington, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Beethoven \u0026amp; Giuditta Pasta, soprano. Contains dedicated laudatory poems by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a historical calendar and information on royal and noble families. Engraved entirely with the burin (but not signed) by Benjamin Rees Davies on a single steel plate measuring about 223 x 147 mm; Davies engraved all the vertical parallel strokes throughout a line before turning the plate to complete the horizontal and joining curves of the letters. The type is less than 3-point and probably printed by McQueen. Each steel plate took at least 13 weeks of unremitting labour. All edges gilt. Original salmon endpapers. 13 x 20 mm. Original red morocco with black diamond onlays within elaborate gilt decorative borders. Slightly rubbed.  Joffe, 43. 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Contains dedicated laudatory poems, a historical calendar and information on royal and noble families. Matching slipcase. In original velvet covered, hinged octagonal case with brass latch at the front and gilt paper border on top and complete with miniature tortoise shell reading glass. Velvet worn in places, 5 mm. of gilt strip missing. Remains of old paper label on bottom. All edges gilt. Original light green with gilt starred endpapers. 13 x 20 mm. Original cream card covers with green onlay stamped in gilt with Prince of Wales feathers emblem. Front cover overlay minutely chipped and very slightly worn. Slipcase missing bottom section, slightly worn and faded. Bondy, 43. Bromer\/Edison, 94-97. Grolier, 112. Gumuchian, 4050. Joffe, 45. Spielmann, 449. Welsh, 2661. OCLC, 45447132. WorldCat locates 5 copies worldwide. 1054 2200 70 firsts2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46272732889301,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3207165.jpg?v=1711018829"},{"product_id":"burns-robert-poems-chiefly-in-scottish-dialect-bryce-david-amp-son-glasgow-1899","title":"Burns, Robert. Poems chiefly in Scottish dialect. Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1899.","description":"Burns, Robert. Poems chiefly in Scottish dialect. Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1899. Original metal locket with magnifier and loop at the top. Mite Series . Facsimile of 1796 kilmarnock edition. Illustrations. 19 x 28 mm. Original red morocco with 'Burns' Poems First Edition 1786' in gilt on front cover and 'Burns' Poems' within circle on spine (slightly rubbed on the spine). Bondy, 113. Garbett, 27. Houghton, 108. Pistner, B233:5.  Spielmann, 69. Welsh, 1535. OCLC, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1027220796\u003c\/span\u003e. WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Indiana and Iowa University Libraries).  45 firsts2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46308481401045,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3227271.jpg?v=1711119891"},{"product_id":"poems-chiefly-in-scottish-dialect-kilmarnock-printed-by-john-wilson-1796-burns-robert-rare-miniature-classic-publication-date-1899-condition-very-good-1","title":"Burns, Robert. Poems chiefly in Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock, Printed by John Wilson, 1796. 1899.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBurns, Robert. Poems chiefly in Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock, Printed by John Wilson, 1796. 1899.viii, 240 printed pages on grey paper (some mild age-toning and some marks on text-block). Bryce, Mite Series \u0026amp; Bryce, Midget Books. Facsimile of 1796 Kilmarnock edition. Illustrations. Original metal locket with magnifier and loop at the top. 19 x 28mm. Original printed grey wrappers, reproducing title page of rare 1796 first edition, spine blank (mild age-toning). This printed binding pre-dates the later red or blue hardback bindings. Spielmann categorises this edition as \"rare\". Bondy, 113. Garbett, 27. Houghton, 108. Spielmann, 69. Welsh, 1535. WorldCat locates just two copies that are both in USA and one of those is described with the later hardback binding. Seller Inventory 46 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46309379047637,"sku":"","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3227257.jpg?v=1711120259"},{"product_id":"smallest-english-dictionary-in-the-world-comprising-besides-the-ordinary-and-newest-words-in-the-language-short-explanations-of-a-large-number-of-scientific-philosophical-literary-and-technical-terms-solid-silver-locket-1893-miniature-book","title":"Smallest English Dictionary in the World. Comprising: besides the ordinary \u0026 newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary \u0026 technical terms. Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1893. 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Original red morocco.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"English Dictionary\" front cover and blank rear cover.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComplete with scarce and desirable solid silver locket \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, fully hallmarked in two places for Sampson Mordan \u0026amp; Co,1893\/4 London. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebuilt in magnifying glass (scratched) and original silver loop. Bryce offered their dictionaries in a choice of Metal cases (1s.3d.), Tartan (1s.6d.), Yapped leather (2s.0d.), Silver gilt (2s.6d.), Gilt or engraved (3s.6d.) \u0026amp; Silver hallmarked locket (7s.6d.) -this example was the most costly and by far the hardest to find. This is one of a number of minuscule books published by Bryce by the process of photographic reduction. They are all legible with a magnifying glass and the equivalent of 1 1\/2-point. This is number 18 in Ruth Adomeit's List of 32 Basic Books for the Serious Collector. Although \"thousands of these dictionaries were published, they are now becoming distinctly scarce and command steadily rising prices\" [Bondy]. Bondy, 106. Garbett, 25. Spielmann, 464. Welsh, 2408. Seller Inventory 64 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46421408514261,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3277551.jpg?v=1711622179"},{"product_id":"koran-quran-quran-steinbrener-hans-vimperk-or-winterberg-czech-republic-circa-1918","title":"Koran or Qu'ran. Steinbrener, Hans. Vimperk, or Winterberg, Czech Republic. Circa 1918.","description":"\u003cp\u003eKoran, Qur'an Qur'an Steinbrener, Hans. Vimperk (or Winterberg), Czech Republic. Circa 1900. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout 800 printed pages in Arabic. Fine India paper. Lithographed text and marginal decoration, printed in Arabic within ruled borders. \u003c\/span\u003eOriginal patterned endpapers; flower and leaf pattern in gilt on black ground. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAn early Steinbrener edition, following on from the success of Bryce's 1896 edition that was reprinted in 1899 and 1907. Hans Steinbrener was established in 1855, and held a Royal warrant to publish almanacs and religious texts in different European languages. Taking advantage of the new technique of photo-reduction Steinbrenner printed these qu'rans from the late 1890s-1960s in Vimperk, or Winterberg, Czech Republic. The text, endpapers and bindings differ from the equivalent Bryce Koran. They became widely distributed across America and Europe but the early examples are far less common. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e22 x 34 mm.  Original red and elaborately stamped gilt morocco with lotus motifs, and scrolling curlicue decoration.  Larger than the Bryce Koran (20 x 28 mm.) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginal engine turned, un-hallmarked silver metal locket incorporating magnifying glass on the front and loop at the top (in base metal); tarnished inside. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e82 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46448377430229,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3297634.jpg?v=1711710315"},{"product_id":"koran-quran-bryce-david-amp-son-glasgow-nbsp-circa-1907","title":"Koran or Qu'ran. David Bryce \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1907.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eKoran, Qur'an. Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. Circa 1907. Circa 800 printed pages in Arabic (a couple of leaves minutely frayed at the edges). Fine India paper, supplied by Henry Frowde. Lithographed text and marginal decoration, printed in Arabic within ruled borders (minuscule marginal tear in gutter of title page) . Lacks endpapers. Marked 'Koran' in ink on text block. Near contemporary ink inscription on final blank page \"Koran in Arabic, E.L.A.R. 1920\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e1906 date suggested by D.V. Welsh. But Myrvold and Parmenter state that the Korans were first published in 1896, with reprints in 1899 and 1907. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e19 x 26 mm.  Original plain blue stiff wrappers (the outer wrappers have some historic small marks from the tarnishing of the inside of the locket). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginal pressed silvered metal locket with a loop at the top, and a magnifier on the front. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe plain stiff wrappers are less commonly found binding than the red leather examples -they were deemed more disposable and less of a treasured item over the last hundred years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBryce's miniature Qu'rans are photolithographic reductions of 19th-century Ottoman editions of famous calligrapher Hafiz Osman's Qur'ans: they were based on the 1871 edition, complete with the signatures and seal impressions of the ten Islamic scholars at back and an 1884 edition from Istanbul that provided the Imperial press colophon reproduced here in full. The Sultan and scholar-backed certificate was a legal assertion of the accuracy of the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsually offered by the publisher in oblong tin, brass or silver lockets with hinged door and inset magnifier. Occasionally issued as one of a twelve-volume set in a metal shelved glass case with the heading \"Midget Library,\" accompanied by separate miniature magnifying glass; case then fits into an angled wooden stand. Many copies with lockets were supplied to Indian and other Muslim soldiers fighting for the British in the Second Boer War and later World War I, where they were worn as pendants and objects of fascination that carried talismanic properties, as well as serving as functional Qur'ans for reading with the help of the magnifying glass .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Indian Soldiers' Fund (in 1914, the British Indian Army was as much as one third of the entire British fighting force, and over half  - more than 150,000 - were Muslims) were instrumental in obtaining and distributing miniature Qu'rans at hospitals (but not packed in boxes with signs for the Red Cross) and the front lines. At least 3,000 copies of this Koran were also bought and distributed by Jewish benefactor, Alfred Ezra, who wrote to Bryce \"On receiving one. the man will stand up, put the book over his head and touch each eye with it, and then kiss the book with reverence. They nearly all wear them round their necks, and say that this protects them from all harm\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn \"almost legendary title published by Bryce … The bindings vary from richly gilt-stamped red or black morocco with gilt edges to plain stiff wrappers and yellow edges . . .[and] increasingly difficult to find copies\" (Bondy, \u003cem\u003eMiniature Books\u003c\/em\u003e [1981] 111–2). In \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Pillars of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 4, Chapter 53) T. E. Lawrence wrote:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Auda] told me later, in strict confidence, that thirteen years before he had bought an amulet Koran for one hundred and twenty pounds and had not since been wounded. . . . The book was a Glasgow reproduction, costing eighteen pence; but Auda’s deadliness did not let people laugh at his superstition.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA similar edition in  different binding is in the Queen Mary's Dolls' House in Windsor Castle. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGarbett, 29. Pistner, B233:6. Welsh, 4174. OCLC, 1053056481. WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Washington and North Texas University Libraries).  81 firsts2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46450117574869,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3297617.jpg?v=1711713052"},{"product_id":"miniature-quran-or-koran-david-bryce-son-1897","title":"Koran or Qu'ran. David Bryce \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1896.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eKoran or Qu'ran. David Bryce \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1896. Circa 800 printed pages. Fine India paper, supplied by Henry Frowde. Lithographed text and marginal decoration, printed in Arabic within ruled borders (minuscule marginal closed tear to one corner of title page) . Original marbled endpapers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e1906 date suggested by D.V. Welsh. But Myrvold and Parmenter state that the Korans were first published in 1896, with reprints in 1899 and 1907.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e19 x 26 mm.  Original red and elaborately stamped gilt morocco with lotus motifs, and scrolling curlicue decoration. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginal pressed gilded metal locket with a loop at the top, and a magnifier on the front (tin very slightly rubbed and tarnished).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBryce's miniature Qu'rans are photolithographic reductions of 19th-century Ottoman editions of famous calligrapher Hafiz Osman's Qur'ans: they were based on the 1871 edition, complete with the signatures and seal impressions of the ten Islamic scholars at back and an 1884 edition from Istanbul that provided the Imperial press colophon reproduced here in full. The Sultan and scholar-backed certificate was a legal assertion of the accuracy of the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUsually offered by the publisher in oblong tin, brass or silver lockets with hinged door and inset magnifier. Occasionally issued as one of a twelve-volume set in a metal shelved glass case with the heading \"Midget Library,\" accompanied by separate miniature magnifying glass; case then fits into an angled wooden stand. Many copies with lockets were supplied to Indian and other Muslim soldiers fighting for the British in the Second Boer War and later World War I, where they were worn as pendants and objects of fascination that carried talismanic properties, as well as serving as functional Qur'ans for reading with the help of the magnifying glass .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Indian Soldiers' Fund (in 1914, the British Indian Army was as much as one third of the entire British fighting force, and over half  - more than 150,000 - were Muslims) were instrumental in obtaining and distributing miniature Qu'rans at hospitals (but not packed in boxes with signs for the Red Cross) and the front lines. At least 3,000 copies of this Koran were also bought and distributed by Jewish benefactor, Alfred Ezra, who wrote to Bryce \"On receiving one. the man will stand up, put the book over his head and touch each eye with it, and then kiss the book with reverence. They nearly all wear them round their necks, and say that this protects them from all harm\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn \"almost legendary title published by Bryce … The bindings vary from richly gilt-stamped red or black morocco with gilt edges to plain stiff wrappers and yellow edges . . .[and] increasingly difficult to find copies\" (Bondy, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMiniature Books\u003c\/em\u003e [1981] 111–2). In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Seven Pillars of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 4, Chapter 53) T. E. Lawrence wrote:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"[Auda] told me later, in strict confidence, that thirteen years before he had bought an amulet Koran for one hundred and twenty pounds and had not since been wounded. . . . The book was a Glasgow reproduction, costing eighteen pence; but Auda’s deadliness did not let people laugh at his superstition.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA similar edition is in the Queen Mary's Dolls' House in Windsor Castle. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBondy, 111-2. Garbett, 29. Pistner, B233:6. Spielmann, 28. Welsh, 4174. OCLC,  1053056481. WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Washington and North Texas University Libraries). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e151 firsts2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46450288984277,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P3297604.jpg?v=1711713088"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-containing-the-old-and-new-testaments-oxford-university-press-american-branch-new-york-1919","title":"Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments; translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Oxford University Press. American Branch. New York. 1919.","description":"\u003cp\u003eBible and Lectern in original Sampson Low box. \u003cspan id=\"biblio-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHoly Bible containing the Old and New Testaments.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan id=\"biblio-publisher\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOxford University Press. American Branch. New York.\u003c\/span\u003e 1919.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[2], \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e876 printed pages on finest India paper. 28 full-page line illustrations of testament scenes reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93) with permission of Messrs S. Bagster \u0026amp; Son. 'Printed in England' on verso of title-page. But on colophon, 'Glasgow : printed at the University Press'. It contains notes on the Shakespeare family records and facsimiles of the entries in the parish register, Stratford Upon Avon, included between Old \u0026amp; New Testaments. 'Licence' to Nimmo Hay and Mitchell, 18 Clyde Street, Edinburgh on verso title-page indicates 1919 as publication date; ; also gives permission to print 20,000 copies. Signed J.A. Clyde. All edges red (very slightly marked). 36 x 50 mm. Original brown calf in the antique style, blind-stamped in imitation of 16th century binding (a few mild scuffs). Holy Bible in gilt on spine. Magnifying glass in front cover pocket. Chained with original metal links to wooden Lectern, 8.5 x 15.4 cm. Paper printed label on shelf above pedestal, describes it as a facsimile of those chained bibles found in some English Cathedrals (\"Miniature Chained Bible and Lecturn: Bibles were so rare in olden times, it was necessary to chain them to Lecterns and other places. The chain is a facsimile of what may be seen in Hereford and other Cathedralss and Parish Churches all over the country. The Bible can easily be read with a magnifying glass which is supplied\"). This particular example is in unusually good condition, more often found rubbed or defective. Presented here as it was originally sold, in a red cardboard box with a printed label - this  original packaging rarely survives but fortunately is present here (edge worn; lid slightly faded and one edge of lid partly torn away). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBondy, 109. Bromer\/Edison, 77. Spielmann, 25. Welsh, 566. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOCLC, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e1013974681\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e. WorldCat locates 1 copy worldwide (Iowa University library). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e Seller Inventory \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e166 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46561721024725,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P4038057.jpg?v=1712134464"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-containing-the-old-and-new-testaments-translated-out-of-the-original-tongues-compared-and-revised-david-bryce-son-glasgow-henry-frowde-oxford-university-press-warehouse-amen-corner-london-1901","title":"Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments; translated out of the original tongues... compared and revised. David Bryce \u0026 son Glasgow. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, London. 1901.","description":"\u003cp\u003eBible and Lectern in original Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son box. Glasgow. 1901. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[2], \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e876 printed pages on finest India paper (final leaf marginally torn at bottom with loss of 'The End' and 'Glasgow : printed at the University Press'). 28 full-page line illustrations of testament scenes reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93) with permission of Messrs S. Bagster \u0026amp; Son. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginal chain attaching it to the lectern. Complete with original miniature magnifying glass in the back pocket. Lectern Height 13.63cm Width 8.12cm. Paper printed label on bottom in very good condition ('Chaining of single books in churches. The chaining of single books in churches doubtless originated in the Injunctions given by Edward vi to \"the Clergie and the Laetie\" in 1547 and printed by Grafton, in which they are ordered \"to provide within three moneths next after visitacion one boke of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English, and within one twelve moneth after the saied visitacion, the Paraphrasis of Erasmus the same to be sette uppe in some convenient place within the churche.\" This Injunction was repeated by Queen Elizabeth in 1599, and, although nothing was mentioned about chains, it seems very probable that the Churchwardens would, for their own sake, adopt that plan of protecting their property. -Blades \"Books in Chains\".' Complete with original box (rubbed at edges, and slightly mishaped through mild historic damp that has also slightly discoloured and spotted the printed label). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e30 x 46 mm.  Original brown \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ecalf in the antique style, blind-stamped in imitation of 16th century binding (a few mild scuffs). 'Holy Bible' and 'D. Bryce \u0026amp; Son' in gilt on spine. This particular example is in good condition; more often they can be found rubbed or defective. Presented here as it was originally sold, in a red cardboard box with a printed label - this  original packaging rarely survives but fortunately is present here. The Bryce version predated the Nimmo Hay and Mitchell edition by 18 years and the boxed Bryce version is now the less common survivor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBondy, 109. Spielmann, 25. Welsh, 562. OCLC, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e1112838621\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eWorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide. 172 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46562116600021,"sku":"","price":800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P4027993.jpg?v=1712136301"},{"product_id":"smallest-english-dictionary-in-the-world-bryce-david-son-glasgow-circa-1894-mauchline-edition-in-original-tartan-box","title":"Smallest English Dictionary in the World. Comprising besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary \u0026 technical terms. David Bryce \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1894. Boxed mauchline.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmallest English Dictionary in the World Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. Circa 1894. 384 pages. Engraved portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Set in 1-1\/2 point type. Printed by Robert Maclehose, Glasgow. \"\"Dedicated by the publishers to Mrs Kendal in appreciation of kindly encouragement given to the production of tiny articles, of which she, has a unique- collection.\" \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAll edges yellow. 19 x 28 mm. Original red leather (very minor edge rubbing). \"Bryces English Dictionary\" printed in gilt on front cover and  \"Pears\" in gilt on rear cover. The books were sold in different types of locket, priced to suit different pockets. There was the tin, brass and sterling silver versions. The brass locket was squarer, with a motif of a bird engraved on it and was also hinged, while the more expensive silver case actually had a front plate that swivelled round horizontally to reveal the book. This copy, however, is housed in the original metal case with magnifier and loop at top. Complete with original tartan paper covered cardboard box, with printed label on removable lid, showing an image of the metal case or locket and 'The Smallest Dictionary in the World with Magnifying Glass'. Very good condition and rare as such. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBondy, 106. Garbett, 25. Pistner, B233:7. Spielmann, 464. Welsh, 2406. OCLC, . WorldCat locates copies worldwide.  173 firsts2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46582393012437,"sku":"","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P4038112.jpg?v=1712225628"},{"product_id":"mite-robinson-ernest-a-grimsby-grimsby-1896","title":"Mite, The. Robinson, E[rnest] A., Grimsby. Grimsby. 1896.","description":"Mite Robinson, E[rnest] A., Grimsby. Grimsby. 1896. 28 printed pages (slightly thumbed). 5 illustrations (including Gutenberg, Fust and Schoeffer) and coat of arms opposite leaf that states \"Copy accepted by Her Majesty\" - a similar copy is in Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library (E.V. Lucas, 381). In 1981 Louis Bondy said\" for many years the smallest English book printed from moveable type and may in fact still deserve that distinction\". It covers the invention of printing, the Eiffel Tower, the annual consumption of steel for pins, and various significant dates. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginally published in 1891, \"This book is issued as a curiosity and is the smallest ever printed from type in the world. The type used is Brilliant, 20 lines to the inch\"-Preface. \u003c\/span\u003e18 x 21mm.  Original sewn, blue-green, printed paper wrappers; 'The Mite' printed on front cover with elaborate border ((some of the letterpress has been rubbed; some small brown patches on both covers). Bondy, 99. Spielmann, 376. Welsh, 5069. OCLC, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e53403802\u003c\/span\u003e. WorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide (Iowa, Indiana, and Virginia Universitity Libraries and the Library of Congress). 174 firsts2024","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46584679727317,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P4048134.jpg?v=1712236124"},{"product_id":"my-tiny-alphabet-book-bryce-david-amp-son-glasgow-1896-2volumes-in-one","title":"My Tiny Alphabet Book Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. 1896. 2volumes in one.","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy Tiny Alphabet Book Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1896. Undated (but 1896). 2 volumes in one. 64 and 62 unnumbered chromolithographed pages. Tiny alphabet of animals and Tiny alphabet of birds. Midget Series. The only book published by Bryce in colour and the smallest colour printed book in 1900. Usually bound in pictorial paper covers. Listed at number nine in Ruth Adomeit's '32 BASIC BOOKS FOR THE Serious Collector'. Original brown endpapers. All edges gilt. 22 x 29 mm. Original red morocco; front cover with gilt 'My Tiny Alphabet book' and image of young boy and girl. Bondy, 72. Bromer, 131. Garbett, 46. Pistner, B233:9-10. Spielmann, 489. Welsh, 5200. OCLC, . WorldCat locates copies worldwide. 169 firsts2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46624402964693,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P4068278.jpg?v=1712404989"},{"product_id":"petit-chansonnier-de-lenfance-1830-marcilly-rue-st-jacques-no-21-paris-1829","title":"Petit Chansonnier de l'Enfance. 1830. Marcilly. Rue St Jacques, No. 21. 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Not in Spielmann. Welsh, 5572. OCLC, 949697604. WorldCat locates 3 copies worldwide (University of Virginia, Pierpont Morgan and Bibliothèque Nationale).177 firsts2024","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46626607399125,"sku":"","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P4068339.jpg?v=1712410979"},{"product_id":"bijou-picture-of-london-or-the-gems-of-the-metropolis-rock-brothers-amp-payne-london-no-date-but-1850-nbsp","title":"Bijou Picture of London, or the Gems of the Metropolis. Rock, Brothers \u0026 Payne. London. No date (but 1850).","description":"Bijou Picture of London, or the Gems of the Metropolis. Rock, Brothers \u0026amp; Payne. London. No date (but 1850).  Engraved frontispiece, title and 30 plates. 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Comprising: besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary and technical terms. Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son. Glasgow. 1893.  384 pages.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrinted on finest India paper. Portrait frontispiece of Dr. Johnson. Mite series. Set in 1-1\/2 point type. Printed by Robert Maclehose, Glasgow. \"\"Dedicated by the publishers to Mrs Kendal in appreciation of kindly encouragement given to the production of tiny articles, of which she, has a unique- collection.\"All edges yellow. Contemporary in ownership singature on front free endpaper, dated 1909. 19 x 28 mm. Original red morocco.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"English Dictionary\" front cover and 'Pears' on back cover\u003c\/span\u003e. Fully hallmarked silver locket, hallmarks in 2 places Sampson Mordan \u0026amp; Co,1894 . Magnifying Glass and original silver loop (some mild scratches and a little tarnished). 19 x 28 mm. Original red morocco (slightly thumbed). \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBryce offered their dictionaries in a choice of Metal cases (1s.3d.), Tartan (1s.6d.), Yapped leather (2s.0d.), Silver gilt (2s.6d.), Gilt or engraved (3s.6d.) \u0026amp; Silver hallmarked locket (7s.6d.) -this example was the most costly and by far the hardest to find. This is one of a number of minuscule books published by Bryce by the process of photographic reduction. They are all legible with a magnifying glass and the equivalent of 1 1\/2-point. This is number 18 in Ruth Adomeit's List of 32 Basic Books for the Serious Collector. Although \"thousands of these dictionaries were published, they are now becoming distinctly scarce and command steadily rising prices\" [Bondy]. \u003c\/span\u003eBondy, 106. Garbett, 25. Pistner, B233:7. Spielmann, 464. 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Spielmann declared this publication as 'Perhaps the rarest of all the tiny Bryce miniature books' and number nine of the 'Midget Series'. Complete with original tarnished metal locket engraved with 'Midget Book with Magnifying Glass'. Brown spots on first nine pages and sporadically after that. Original pale yellow endpapers. All edges pale yellow. Contemporary owners ink inscription on front free endpaper. 19 x 28 mm. Original red roan. Gilt lettering on spine in circle and on front cover.  Bondy, 107. Not in Garbett.  Spielmann, 355-A. Welsh, 4722. OCLC,  220675362. WorldCat locates 7 copies worldwide. An early example of the photolithographic reduction technology.    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54880441434491,"sku":"#OABA25","price":550.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/PC070407.jpg?v=1733591975"},{"product_id":"mite-series-in-tartan-bryce-david-son-glasgow-circa-1900-five-volumes-in-fitted-wooden-box","title":"Mite Series in Tartan. Bryce, David \u0026 Son. Glasgow. Circa 1900. Five volumes in fitted wooden box.","description":"\u003cp\u003eMite Series in Tartan. Bryce, David \u0026amp; Son.  Glasgow. Circa 1900. Five volumes in fitted wooden box.  Hinged glazed lid with gilt saw tooth decoration  along framed edges. Sides covered in Prince Charlie tartan glossy paper. Issued in wooden box, 82 x 76 mm., with each volume in separate compartment, arranged in two rows divided into 6 compartments; centre compartment in top row contains title page for set with picture of Robert Burns covered by a magnifying glass, 'Mite Series in Tartan. Glasgow; David Bryce \u0026amp; Son.' Glasgow: Printed at the University Press. Five books: Smallest English Dictionary; Burns' Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; Old English, Scotch and Irish Songs with Music; Witty Humorous and Merry Thoughts, Selected by T.M. Original printed label on bottom. Provenance: from the Librairies of Doris Varner Welsh and Kathryn I. Rickard (compiler and editor of the 'Bibliography of Miniature Books 1470-1965'). Original publisher's red roan. With gilt titling on spines and front covers.  Gentle handling. Bondy, 113. Garbett, 30. Welsh, 2408; 1535; 2086; 5113; 4860. OCLC, \u003cspan\u003e297117336\u003c\/span\u003e. 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