When you hold a miniature book in your hand, it is like holding a jewel. A miniature book is usually no bigger than three inches (76 millimeters) tall, and although some need magnification to be viewed properly, most can be read with the naked eye. Dating as far back as 2500 BCE, Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform writing are considered the prototype for miniature books ...
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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
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
New York: David Bryce & Son / Frederick A. Stokes, 1896. 876pp. First edition, American issue, of the smallest complete Bible in the world, first published by Bryce in 1896, and later under various imprints. With full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. Light rubbing and toning to spine, else a near..... More
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
NY: David Bryce / Frederick A. Stokes Company, (c. 1885). (228)pp. Seventeen engravings of Scottish landmarks and cityscapes, among them Inverness, Ballaculish, and Glencoe, punctuate this book of reflective prompts. The volume is divided into sixteen sets of "confessions," each section printed on differently colored paper and labeled by the..... 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
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
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (1904). v, 59pp., as double-page spreads. The first edition of Bryce's Rubaiyat, here with the orientalist title page and sewn through the center of the text. Bound in finely gilt-stamped green calf, also in an orientalist style. Expected edgewear, fading to the binding, else near..... 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: 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. 1905). xiv, 1472pp. Each section is opened with a black & white illustration. Bryce published in 1905 a four-volume edition of Tennyson, which was followed by, or published simultaneously with, this one-volume edition. Bondy refers to this edition as "rare." Extremities of spine faintly..... More
