![]() But one of my favorites, Charles Hardy Meigs’s “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” (1900), printed in its entirety at 10 by 9 millimeters, raises the question, Why go to all this trouble?Ĭredit. ![]() Kennedy’s Inaugural Addresses, 2 3/4 by 1 15/16 inches and 2 3/4 by 1 7/8 inches. ![]() Onge, a printer and designer, created stunning gold-leaf-embossed bindings - near-perfect miniaturizations of larger leather-bound volumes - for Dwight Eisenhower’s and John F. Edison chronicle this legacy of petite functional volumes, including some of the quirkiest - like “Thoughts From the Cork” (1981), with a cover fashioned from a 1 5/8-by-1-inch wine cork. In MINIATURE BOOKS: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures (Abrams/Grolier Club, $40), Anne C. Rather, they are meant to be read and collected. Although some may look like dollhouse props, these miniatures are by no means toys. Bound miniature books were common in medieval and Renaissance times as illuminated manuscripts, and in the 18th and 19th centuries as everything from alphabet primers to novels present-day artists have also used them as a medium. For the creators of an old literary genre, however, the phrase described the machinery on which very, very tiny books were produced. The term “small press” usually refers to independent publishers with limited means and large ambitions. ![]()
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