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1986Best.-Nr. 34993Charlestown MA: Emporium Publications ca 1986. One of 250 numbered copies. With a drawing accompanying each letter printed on rectos only. 32mo in the original bright red cloth gilt lettered and ruled on the upper cover in gilt in the original glassine jacket. 54. As new both book and jacket are pristine. ONE OF ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES! E. Helene Sherman has a devoted following among collectors of calligraphy and miniature books. She is better described as a calligrapher and illuminator than as a conventional book illustrator. In this work she brings us such recognizable landmarks as The New England Aquarium for the letter A the Customs House Tower for the letter C Haymarket Square for the letter H and the Museum of Science for the letter M. The artist lived and worked in Watertown Massachusetts and her work was associated with Boston’s arts-and-crafts tradition. ABC’s of Boston is especially appealing in that it occupies a niche between a children’s alphabet book and a fine press artist’s book. It is a charming piece of Bostoniana but its real significance lies in the craftsmanship. Emporium Publications hardcover
Best.-Nr. 53399London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1839. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham. Inscribed June 1839 in pencil on front pastedown miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Holy Family vignette on title page and 46 full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the 2nd. Bound in the original publisher's maroon fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine faded gilt bright a touch of wear to top of spine tiny damp spot to upper corner of upper cover. A very good clean tight copy. The New Testament abridged and illustrated for the use of children. Osborne I 147; Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839). hardcover
Best.-Nr. 3230Minor creasing and rubbing some with small edge tears. Overall very good. Frank J. Anderson. Group of Twenty-Two Consecutive Kitemaug Press Calanders. Spartanburg SC: Kitemaug Press 1987 - 2008. First editions. Various sizes approx. 3 x 2 inches - 3 x 3.25 inches. Illustrated in various themes. Publisher's printed card wraps string bound. Some with miniature bookplates of Robert Massmann. With Autograph Letter Signed by noted miniature book publisher/collector Robert Massman to fellow collector Edward Hoyenski dated September. 23rd 2010 with mailing envelope. From the collection of Edward Hoyenski. . unknown
1981Best.-Nr. 10086Lexington KY: Square-Rigger Press 1981. First Edition number 96 of 200 copies. Miniature book 6x5.5cm 32 1pp. Printed in blue with illustrations of sailboats by Carol Charles von Koschembahr throughout. Stitched Japanese style in blue cloth backed patterned paper boards and cream paper slip cover. Some toning to fore edge of boards slip cover smudged. Very good. Nice miniature production from the von Koschembahrs the first book from the Square-Rigger Press imprint. A unique and attractive binding. Square-Rigger Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 53347London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1839. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham. Inscribed June 1839 in ink and pencil on front pastedown miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Royal Psalmist vignette on title page and 46 very good full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the first on the list. Bound in the original publisher's dark green fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine just very slightly faded gilt bright a touch of wear to top of spine and a pinhead chip to cloth at top of upper hinge minute chip to lower edge of page 59/60. A very good clean tight copy. Episodes from the Old Testament retold for children. Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh or Osborne. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839). hardcover
Best.-Nr. 49870London Charles Tilt Fleet Street 1839. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series printed by C. Whittingham ink inscription dated February 1839 on front pastedown miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm 3 x 2½ inches cover size frontispiece of the Royal Psalmist vignette on title page and 46 very good full page illustrations printed 1 side only pages: 191 1 - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series ours being the first on the list. Bound in the original publisher's brown fine grained blind stamped cloth decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title gilt decoration to spine with gilt title all edges gilt pale yellow endpapers. Spine just very slightly faded gilt bright very slight wear to top of spine with 1 minute nick lower hinge faded a little very light staining to covers front endpapers very lightly soiled contents clean. A very good tight copy. Episodes from the Old Testament retold for children. Bondy Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh or Osborne. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839). hardcover
1821Best.-Nr. 10661Impensis Gul Pickering. Londini. London. 1821. MINIATURE BOOK. 3.3 x 2.1 inches. Portrait frontis title page 284pp including second title page. A fine copy of this expertly printed little volume in a highly attractive leather binding of beautiful full dark green morocco by Lanscelin. Spine with five raised bands each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Boards with triple gilt ruled borders. Stamped monogram to the front board. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Turn-ins with elaborate gilt roll. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Orange gold and green silk book marker sewn in. A fine copy. A marvellous piece of book production both the text and the binding. Impensis Gul Pickering. Londini. (London). 1821 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 53120London: D. Bogue 86 Fleet Street Tilt And Bogue Harrild Printer 1856 . A very good miniature Almanack in the original crimson morocco wrap-round wallet style binding. 6.3cm x 3.6cm x 0.4cm. All page edges gilt 32pp. VG. "David Bogue started life on 16 October 1808 in East Lothian as the son of Jacob Bogue a farmer and Ann Johnston. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Biography he became the assistant of Thomas Ireland a bookseller in Edinburgh but moved to London in 1836 to work for Charles Tilt. Tilt had his shop at 86 Fleet Street and specialised in illustrated books and lithographic prints. The 1851 census found the Bogue family at 76 Camden Road. The census papers for 86 Fleet Street tell us that �no person sleeps on premises�. David died in November 1856 of heart disease aged just 48.2 His name still appeared in the tax records and in imprints in 1857 and 1858 as the executors tried to keep the place going with the help of Charles Tilt but by 1859 most of Bogue�s copyrights and stock as well as the shop had been taken over by William Kent his name is listed in the Land Tax records for 1860." - See David Bogue bookseller and publisher by Baldwin Hamey 2017. London: D. Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, Tilt And Bogue [Harrild, Printer], 1856 . unknown
Best.-Nr. 53271London Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd 1904. FIRST EDITION 1904 75 x 75 mm 3 x 3 inches buff cloth blue red and black illustration to upper cover top edges green 99 pages. Black and white title illustration and 24 jolly colour plates each facing a page of text all printed on thick card 1 side only. Lovely story about baron's little son's pet blue rabbit. Expertly restitched new front endpaper so lacking list of other titles in the series. Very occasional very slight pale brown spotting child's inscription on blank reverse of first text page. A very good bright copy. No. 4 in The Humpty Dumpty Books for Children series 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, 1904. hardcover
1825Best.-Nr. 91London: Jones & Co 1825. First Edition in Miniature. Leather. Near Fine. Miniature 2.6" x 4.5" rebound in full brown leather with gold stamping and labels 5 hubs engraved frontispiece of Dr Saml Johnson engraved title page 160 pages. Rare Miniature of the larger original published in 1759. Rasselas is Dr. Johnson's version of a morality tale about what constitutes True Happiness that rivals Voltaire's Candide. The volumes' working title was "The Choice of Life." The name "Rasselas" means "The Chief" of a tribe in exotic Abyssinia. The Great Cham & Lexicographer was pro-emancipation and had a black manservant whom he treated very well. This minor classic was supposedly written by the good Doctor to defray expenses expected with his mother's funeral. In fact there are signs of extensive revisions in early editions that suggest greater literary intentions. Rebound in fine brown morocco with gilt stamped title and author on the spine. Foxed engraved frontispiece and title page otherwise pages bright and legible with a tight binding tight. Lower margin of page 7 roughly torn away but not affecting the clear text. Jones & Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2396Minor wear else fine. Artist Unknown. Postcard Depicting Gingerbread Men with the caption "AIDS does not discriminate or does it" Keepsake from the 9th Annual Miniature Book Society Conclave held in Williamsburg VA in 1991. Measuring approx. 4 x 6 inches. Blank to verso. . unknown
Best.-Nr. 1359Illustrated backing lightly foxed and wrinkled; minor foxing to book covers. Very good. From the collection of Edward Hoyenski. Travel-Time Kit for Children Mt. Hawley Publishing Co. 1964. Various. Travel-Time Kit for Children: Complete with Games Puzzles Fill-Ins and 10 Story Books. Peoria IL: Mt. Hawley Publishing Co. 1964. With ten soft-cover miniature children's books mounted to illustrated board including: Mother Goose Peter Rabbit The 3 Bears Red Riding Hood The Three Pigs The Gingerbread Man Nitty Ditties Hansel and Gretel 3 Billy Goats Gruff and The Elves and the Shoemaker. Miniature books measure approx. 2 x 2 inches each backing board measures approx. 11 x 14 inches. . unknown
2005Best.-Nr. ST20505-13Santa Cruz California: Peter and Donna Thomas 2005. No. 37 OF 126 COPIES. 75 x 50 mm. 3 x 2". 2 p.l. 23 1 pp. 1 leaf. Tan paper with a paper label over a 17th century printed fragment. WITH THREE LEAVES FROM MINIATURE BOOKS: one leaf from the "thumb Bible" "History of the Bible" New London: W & J Bolles 1831; one from "The Shakespeare Glossary" Glasgow: Bryce Stokes 1904; and one from "Dew-Drops" New York City: American Tract Society ca. 1847. With an additional fragment of a larger leaf tipped in at the front. As new. This delightful entirely handmade production features a list of miniature leaf books and three original leaves from miniature books published between 1831-1904. Since the 1970s our collaborating husband-and-wife book artists Peter and Donna Thomas have been making paper printing with a hand press and hand binding books. The present book was assembled between 1997-2005 and then printed the Thomases humorously tell us "on a cranky old Pearl treadle press" using Joe Halton's linotype and Neuland types. All paper was handmade by Peter Thomas; as an artistic choice by the bookmakers the endpapers include fragments of paper from the 1686 book "Keble's Reports" the same work from which the fragments on the cover and frontispiece originate. The three leaves included here provide an excellent representation of the charming miniature books of the 19th century. They include a leaf from a "Thumb Bible" the miniature volumes containing biblical excerpts that enjoyed considerable popularity during the period; a leaf from an "Ellen Terry" book issued by Glasgow printer David Bryce Jr. who produced these books using the relatively new technology of photographic reduction and named them after the most famous actress of the day; and an American example produced by the non-denominational American Tract Society which published several miniature religious books through the mid-19th century. This publication is made especially charming by its size which of course is entirely appropriate for the volume's contents. Peter and Donna Thomas unknown
Best.-Nr. 53101London : Pub. by A. Schloss 12 Berners Str. Oxford Str. 1838 . One of the famous Schloss's Bijou almanacs illustrated with 6 engraved plates by Letitia E. Landon. 36mo 20 x 14mm. Engraved frontispiece 5 engraved plates. Light water stain to last leaf and light foxing to a couple of leaves. Ornate gilt decorated dark green leather over thin card covers. just light rubbing to the edges and the gilt decoration. G. "A miracle of fine and delicate engraving done consistently and beautifully to an almost unbelievably tiny scale." - See Percy E. Spielmann. London : Pub. by A. Schloss, 12 Berners Str. Oxford Str. [1838] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52752Edinburgh: Andrew Stevenson no date - c.1900 . A very good original leather binding. 64mo. 1.7" x 1.8" 42mm x 45mm 128 pp. . Black calf over thin card. Gilt title to front cover: "Mountain Daisy". All page edges gilt. Original patterned endpapers. Dedication to front endpaper dated 1907. Clean text throughout. VG. Edinburgh: Andrew Stevenson, [ no date - c.1900 ] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52754London: William Pickering M.DCCC.XXVII. 1827 . A very good full leather binding. 16mo. 3.2" x 2.2" x .0.8" 82mm x 55mm x 20mm pp.xix/1p./pp.442. Black polished calf. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title: "Walton's Lives". All page edges gilt. Thin blue silk marker ribbon. Inner gilt dentelles. Original yellow endpapers. Gift dedication to front free-endpaper: "To Lady Lechmere from W.C.E.S. 24 March 1897." Engraved frontispiece by Aug. Fox after T. Stothard. Clean text throughout. VG. Katherine Horsfall Wright 1869 - 1955 married Edmund Arthur Lechmere 1865 - 1937 4th Baronet and lived at Severn End Hamley Worcestershire. The marriage took place on 01/03/1897 when of course she became Lady Lechmere. London: William Pickering, M.DCCC.XXVII. [1827] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52890London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. MDCCCCI 1901 . First edition. A very good miniature book in the original parchment binding now lightly soiled and yellowed. 3.0" x 2.5" x 0.5" 76mm x 65mm x 9mm. Gilt title to both front board and spine. Red ruled border to both covers. All page edges gilt. Clean text and black & white illustrations throughout. No ownership marks or other blemishes. VG. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., MDCCCCI [1901] . unknown
Best.-Nr. 52889London: Chapman & Hall Limited 1905 . Miniature book. 58mm x 40mm x 9mm. pp.350. Tan suede yapp binding over limp overs. Gilt title to spine. All page edges gilt. Green marbled endpapers creased and rubbed. Clean text and illustrations throughout just a few creased corners. VG London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1905 . unknown
Best.-Nr. 52933Goldaming Surrey: Privately Printed For Charterhouse School 1881 . A very good full leather miniature book. 8.5cm x 6.2cm x 2.0cm. Polished balck calf. Gilt school crest to front board. Gilt title to spine: "School Lists 1879-81." All page edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's details to front free-endpaper: "J. H. Merryweather Charterhouse 1882." A collection of school and house lists for the Charterhouse a public school in Godalming Surrey. Originally founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square London the school is one of the original nine English public schools reported upon by the Clarendon Commission in 1864. With lists of governors masters students and house members lists for the September January and May 1879-1881. [ Goldaming, Surrey: Privately Printed For Charterhouse School, 1881 ] hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52942London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner E.C. 1895 . A very good miniature leather binding matching slip-case. 5.4cm x 4.5cm x 0.9cm . 32mo. Black morocco over thin boards with gilt titles to spine and front cover. All page edges gilt. Of The Imitation Of Christ. pp.576. Frontis: Black & white illustration of Christ. Printed title. Colophon to verso of title-page:"Oxford: Horace Hart. Printer To The University". Dedication to front free endpaper. VG. See L. W. Bondy: Miniature Books - pp.117-118 London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C., 1895 . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 53014Glasgow: David Bryce and Son c. 1893 . A clean copy of this famous miniature dictionary in limp red roan gilt. In original hinged metal container with carrying loop and magnifying lens in top lid. Outer surface very rubbed. 34mm x 28mm x 10mm. The actual book measures 27mm x 19mm x 8mm. 5pp./pp.6 - 384 . Bound in publisher's red leather with "English Dictionary" on front cover and "Pears" printed vertically on the rear cover. Original yellow endpapers. Engraved portrait of Johnson as frontispiece. Printed on india paper a few creased corners and small chips. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, [ c. 1893 ] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52601Glasgow: David Bryce & Son no date - c.1893 . A very good original leather binding contained in the original leather wallet with a magnifying glass. 64mo. 28mm x 20mm x 7mm. pp.127/1p. - Colophon 24 full-page illustrations and musical notation. Original crimson goatskin binding with bright gilt titles to the front board and spine. Original yellow endpapers lightly soiled with frontis title-page and contents leaf. Colophon to verso of the last leaf : "Glasgow: Printed At The University Press." Clean text illustrations and text throughout. The little brown leather wallet has yapp edges a magnifying glass to the front cover and a central press-stud in working order to secure it. Scarce! Glasgow: David Bryce & Son [ no date - c.1893 ] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52219London : Henry Frowde Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner E.C. c. 1900 . 2.25" x 1.75" x 0.5". pp.xiv./pp.15 -pp. 583/1p. Polished crimson straight-grained morocco over thin boards. Gilt title to front board. Spine carefully repaired. All page edges gilt. Original black endpapers. Portrait frontis. Clean text throughout. "Oxford: Horace Hart Printer to the University." -- colophon base of last leaf. London : Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C. [c. 1900] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52218London : Henry Frowde Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner E.C. c. 1896 . 2.25" x 1.75" x 0.4". pp. 480 . Crimson straight-grained morocco over thin boards. Top & tail of spine carefully strengthened. Gilt title to front board. All page edges gilt. Original black endpapers. Picture frontis. Clean text throughout. Colophon to verso of the title-page: "Oxford: Horace Hart Printer To The University". London : Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C. [c. 1896 ] . hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52217London: Henry Frowde Amen Corner 1896 . A very good miniature full leather binding. 2.25" x 2.0" x 0.75". 5.5cm x 4.7cm x 1.8cm. pp.418. 32mo. Black morocco over thin boards with gilt title to front cover. All page edges gilt. Black endpapers. Inked name and date to front free-endpaper: "Flo 1908". Half-title frontis and title-page present. Clear English text on India paper. VG. London: Henry Frowde, Amen Corner, 1896 . hardcover
