Shakespeare, William. Midsummer Night's Dream. Bryce, David & Son. Glasgow. 1904. 285 printed pages. Thin India paper. Frontispiece. Rounded corners. Original marbled endpapers. Contemporary ink ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper. Original glossy blue retailer's label on front free endpaper "From The Tudor House" Stratford-upon-Avon". 35 x 50 mm. Original tan suede; black leather label with gilt lettering on spine; covers with single ruled blind-embossed border. One of a series of miniature books dedicated by the publisher David Bryce to the actress Miss Ellen Terry. The eighth of forty volumes that made up the Ellen Terry Complete Works of Shakespeare. "Carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J. Talfourd Blair". Bryce achieved this tiny print with the relatively recent technology of the time , Photographic Reduction: regular sized printed content was photographed using high-resolution cameras. The negative of the photograph was then reduced in size multiple times until the desired miniature size using photomechanical processes; combining advanced photographic techniques with traditional electroplating and printing methods could create tiny, highly detailed books. He also maintained strong connections with the printing houses associated with the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, which helped account for the clarity and legibility of the texts. His association with Oxford University Press was especially fortunate, as from 1875 they owned the process to make the ultra-thin opaque sheets called 'India paper', which enabled the production of extremely small textblocks. OCLC, 270900821. Garbett, 42. Welsh, 6300.