Her first miniature book was about an inch and a half tall. It was a prayer book bound in ivory with a velveteen spine and satin endpapers. Caroline Brandt puts the year of publication at around 1850.
Tommy Wixon of Pascagoula does not know exactly where his penchant for collecting ends and his love of history and genealogy begins, but he is certain he has a gene that draws him toward a world of ...
“I’ve never seen anything like this before and I’ve been working here for 26 years,” said a senior director at the Montreal Jewish Public Library. MONTREAL (JTA) — In her 96 years on earth, Lilly Toth ...
The photographs in Alex Vadukul's New York Times story about Neale Albert, a 75-year-old collector of miniature books, are as squee-inducing as anything you might see on Cute Overload—except, of ...
In 1976, the title of World’s Smallest Book (printed with moveable metal type) went to an A-Z printing of the text type Gill Titling, with each letter, inked in 3-point-type, appearing on a single ...
Penguin Random House has not revealed which books will be added to the Penguin Minis lineup after Green's four novels, but "[a]dditional titles will follow in 2019," according to the press release.
How does one define a book? Most commonly, a book (or “codex”) is defined as a written or printed work that consists of pages sewn or glued together along one side that has some kind of cover, or a ...
A book no bigger than a grain of rice is going on display in an exhibition celebrating a fascination with miniature books. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...
Every once in a while, a book comes across my desk that I cannot stop looking at, and such is the case with “Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures” by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison ...