Accession number:
PML 251974-79
Published:
Glasgow : David Bryce & Son ; New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, [ca. 1890]
Description:
6 volumes : illustrations, music ; 27 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes:
In an ornamental metal box.
Witty Humorous and Merry thoughts and Golden Thoughts from Great Authors are the New York edition published by Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Binding:
Limp red morocco printed in gilt.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Summary:
A collection of six miniature publications by David Bryce of Glasgow housed in a metal hinged box which features images of a Chinese dragon and flying cranes. The books measure only 27 mm tall and are bound in flexible red roan leather with pages of very fine, thin India paper. One of the titles, 'The Tourist's Conversational Guide to English, French, German, Italian' by J.T. Loth, is regarded as perhaps the rarest of all the tiny Bryce miniature books.
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