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Private Press, Books & Art
5:00 AM PT - Nov 6th, 2008

 

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Bloomsbury Auctions

 

Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
Uk Auction

 

       

Lot 96A save

Miniature Book.- Lord's Prayer,Amsterdam,1952

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Miniature Books.- Lord's Prayer (The); Het Onze Vader; Le Notre Pere...,
text in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish, original black morocco, covers with fillet border, cross on upper cover and single rules on spine all in gilt, [Bondy p.155; Spielmann 355], 5 x 5mm., Amsterdam, [c.1952].

***Described on publication as the smallest book in the world , produced as a fund-raiser for the reconstruction of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. The prospectus emphasised the book's printing from metal (by a Dutch foundry) not photographic reduction but Spielmann contradicts this, "Type: photographic reduction to exceptionally small type, clearly readable with a very strong magnifying glass." .

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