Les Fleurettes

Paris Chez Marcilly Rue St, Jacques No. 10, 1836 |64mo, 27 x 18 mms., pp. 63 [64 colophon], engraved throughout, with 8 engraved plates, bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt border on covefs, gilt flower ornament in centre of each cover, gilt spine, all edges gilt; hinges a little strained, but a good copy. D V. Welsh: Miniature Books, no. 2840. Copies located in British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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Book number: 9632

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature poetry literature

FONTAINE

Le Petit La Fontaine

[Paris] Chez Mareilly Rue St, Jacques No. 10 [Imprimeri de Firmin Didot, Rue Jacob No. 24] [c. 1850] Oblong 48mo, 52 x 39 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 94, including half-title, engraved title-page, 6 engraved black and white illustrations, printed green ornamental covers, all edges gilt, contained in a printed slip case with ornamental covers, and the autograph and date, "M E. Burgess/ June 18, 1851" on the front paste-down end-paper; front joint slighly damaged, slip case a bit worn, but a very good copy.

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Book number: 9630

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature fables literature

[KEBLE (John)]:

The Christian Year Thoughts in verse for the Sundays and Holidays throughout the Year.

[London], Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E. C. 1895. 64mo, 54 x 42 mms., pp. 480, engraved frontispiece, contemporary soft green morocco, with the holy monogram, "IHS" in gilt on the front cover, gilt sine, all edges gilt. A very good to fine copy with the tiny bookseller's ticket of J. H. Bishop of Bournemouth on the front pasted-down end-paper. Welsh, D. V. : Miniature books, p. 127, no. 4135; Bondy, L.W.: Miniature books, p. 118.

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Book number: 9628

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature Christianity prose

aKEMPIS (Thomas):

De Imitatione Christi De Libri Quator.

[Paris] Impressium Parisiis Cura Edwini Tross 1858. FIRST EDITION. 24mo, 80 x 45 mms., pp. [iv], 155 [156 blank], uncut, engraved frontispiece, attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf (with his tiny gilt mark just barely visible in the lower gilt margin of the verso of the front board) in later full tan morocco, triple gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, with title in gilt on spine, marbled end-papers, with the miniature bookplate of M. A. Elton on the front paste-down end-paper. A fine copy of this "large-paper" miniature. Doris V. Welsh, Bibliography of Miniature Books, no. 4976; Spielmann, P.E. Miniature books, no. 479. Elton, Mary Augusta Strachey, 1838-1914: A catalogue of a portion of the library of Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton. (London, Quaritch, 1891), also by Charles Isaac Elton.

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Book number: 10092

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature provenance prose

MINIATURE. BIBLE.

The Bible in Miniature Or a concise History of the Old & New Testaments.

London: Printed for W. Harris, 1771. 64mo, 44 x 25 mms., pp. 255 [256 blank], followed by two more blank leaves, D7 signed D5, two engraved title-pages, 14 engraved plates (of 15; lacking the plate at page 234), bound in red morocco, with a central oval panel with the Christogram JHS in gilt on the rear cover (lacking on front cover), spine gilt in three compartments, top edge gilt. A very good copy. Adomeit notes that this was the first appearance of this binding style on a miniature Bible; later editions published by Newbery in 1780 often exhibit exhibit the Christogram binding. Adomeit B18; copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge; N. Carolina, Indiana.

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Book number: 9357

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature Bible prose

MINIATURE.

Le Conseiller des Graces, Dedie aux Dames. Annee 1817

A Paris, Chex [sic]Marcilly rue St. Jacques, No. 91 [1817] 24mo, 22 x 16 mms., pp. 63 [64 blank], ], seven engraved plates opposite texts, contemporary red moroco, gilt borders on covers, gilt ornament in centre of each cover, all edges gilt; some very slight wear, but a very good copy. [10138] There are a number of Marcilly miniatures on the market, but none identical to this one; nor could I find one in the usual databases with the same layout, plates, and configuration. A copy with having almost the same description was sold at auction in 2007,

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Book number: 10138

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature conduct literature

MINIATURE. BRYCE (John), printer

The Smallest English Dictionary in the World. Comprising, besides the ordinary and newest words in the language short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary and technical terms.

Glasgow: John Bryce and Son, [no date]. [c. 1893]. 32mo, 32 x 18 mms., pp. 348, engraved portrait of Johnson as frontispiece, bound in publisher's red leather, with "Bryce's English Dictionary" on front cover and (vertically) "Pears" on the rear cover, contained in a plain metal case, lacking the magnifying glass that acts as circular window, and the circular mounting is loose, but present. Bryce published six of these miniatures in the 1890s, all contained in a metal box or boxes.

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Book number: 7608

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature dictionary prose

PSALMS. DAVID.

The Psalms of David in Metre. Allowed by the Authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, And appointed to be sung in Congregations and Families.

Glasgow: Printed by R. Chapman, for J. Imrary Bookseller. 1798. 32mo, 76 x 43 mms., pp. 294, 80, the last 80 pages having a separate title, "Translations & Paraphrases, in verse, of several passages of Sacred Scripture. Collected and prepared by A Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In Order to be Sung in Churches. Glasgow: Printed for J. Dickson, Edinburgh. 1798," with separate pagination but continuous register, and curious woodcut on title-page, bound in contemporary black calf, panelled in blind, marbled end-papers; fore-margin of first leaf frayed and pulling loose at inner margin, title-page of first item at little soiled, forn cover sprung, slight wear to front joint and corners, but a good to very good copy, with the vertical inscription on the verso of the leaf opposite the title-page, "Helen Brown [?Doum]/ her Book/ 1800." Uncommon. ESTC T91767 locates copies in BL, NLS; and NYPL.

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Book number: 7572

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature religion prose