Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (1901). 876pp. With 28 line illustrations. A later issue of the first complete miniature Bible, which was originally published in 1896, and issued with various imprints. Between the Old and New Testaments are the Shakespeare Family records, by W. S. Brassington, a rare feature of..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1896. 876pp. First edition of the smallest complete Bible in the world, jointly issued with Henry Frowde of London. With full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. Very fine in full navy leather with spine title in gilt, and with purple ribbon. All edges red. (Garbett, p...... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1896. 876pp. First edition of the smallest complete Bible in the world, jointly issued with Henry Frowde of London. With full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. Inserted here is the rare Burns Family Register before the Book of Matthew. Very fine in full navy pebbled leather..... More
Glasgow: Bryce, David, (c. 1898). 128pp. These snippets of comic wisdom reveal the lighter side of a publisher primarily known for literary and religious works. As the title-page proclaims, "A little nonsense now and then/ Is relished by the wisest men." Cover and spine gilt-stamped with the title. Contemporary ownership..... More
NY: David Bryce & Son / Frederick A. Stokes, (c. 1890). 386pp., printed double size to be read in "landscape" orientation. One of Bryce's earliest miniature books, printed at the Glasgow University Press, and this from its issuance under the American Stokes imprint. Bound in full pale blue cloth with..... More
NY: David Bryce & Son / Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1896). 860pp. Over a million copies are said to have been sold of the various editions, of which this is one of the number published by Bryce for American distribution by Stokes. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Johnson. In a variant..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (1889). 32ff., as double-page spreads. A selection of abridged and adapted excerpts from Thomas à Kempis' seminal devotional text, edited for Bryce by T. M. Lindsay. Text printed in black with border rule in red. Fine in boards covered with tartan silk, protected by original..... More
Glasgow & NY: David Bryce & Son / Frederick A. Stokes, (1904). Forty volumes. Dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry, this complete set of Shakespeare was part of a series of literary sets and individual volumes dedicated to her. Of the Ellen Terry series, Louis Bondy wrote that these volumes..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (1889). Two volumes. 64ff., as double-page spreads, continuously paginated. Each spread bordered in a single red rule, within which are the musical notations and lyrics for twenty-five Scottish songs. The lyrics often use the vernacular, bringing Scots vocabulary with Scottish brogue pronunciations. Both copies bound..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (c. 1900). (768)pp. A pristine copy of Bryce's Book of Common Prayer, printed in a variety of type faces and sizes, and ultimately perhaps the best testament to turn-of-the-century miniature printing. Bound in black limp morocco with gilt stamping. Housed, as issued, in box with..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (1904). 64pp. An unusual oblong-format Bryce with page one containing both the title-page, printed in the plain text of the later issue, and the first page of the preface. Not sewn to create the double-page spreads as found in the first issue. Bound in finely..... More
