Eileen's Tiny Books (Galatea Library): ACHILLE J. ST. ONGE (1913-1978)

THE WANTS OF MAN by John Quincy Adams (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, MA, 1970. 2 copies). Size: 2.25" x 3"

SAINT AUGUSTINE FLORIDA 1565-1965 (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1963). Size: 2” x 2.75”

Historic American Flags (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, MA, 1968). Size: to come

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: The Song In His Heart by Kenneth A. Bernard (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, MA, 1970. 2 copies). Size: 2-1/8" x 3"

FROM A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK by Van Wyck Brooks (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1955). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-3/8”

Sir Winston S. Churchill: Honorary Citizen of the United States (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1964). Size: 1-5/8" x 2-3/8"

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore with illustrations by Tasha Tudor (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1964). Size: 2-5/8" x 3.75"

Thanksgiving Day Proclamations by Wilbur L. Cross (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1963). Size: 2" x 2-5/8"

Declaration Of Independence (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1976). Size: 1-7/8” x 2.5”

Robert Hutchings Goddard 1966 Father of Space Age (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1966). Size: 2" x 2-7/8"

ELEGY Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1960). 27pp. Size: 1-5/8" x 2-3/8” [One thousand copies of this book were printed using Lutetia type by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Proost and Brandt, Amsterdam. Paper by Cartiere Enrico Magnani Pescia (Pistoia) Italy.

Frontispiece portrait of Gray is printed in olive as are the four illustrations in the tex. Bound in full blonde calf, Cover title in gold calligraphic type. Gilt edges. Frontispiece portrait of Gray, printed in olive, as are the four illustrations in the text. 45 pp. 2-3/8″ x 1-5/8″. B20th 17/123

Bonus: Literary Anniversaries 5p Stamp (1971) Thomas Gray (Death Bicentenary) included.]

Science and Freedom by Thomas Jefferson (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1964). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-5/8”

Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1965). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-11/16”

Magna Carta of King John AD 1215 (1965. X/1,250). 27pp. Size: 2-1/8” by 2-7/8"

The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1961). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-5/8”

THE EULOGY TO UNITED STATES SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY by Edward M. Kennedy (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1968. X/2,000). 27pp. Size: 2-5/8” by 1-7/8"

Remarks at the Dedication of The Wallace Library by Archibald Macleish (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, MA, 1967). Size: 2-1/8” x 1-7/8”

The Sermon on the Mount (from the Gospel of Saint Matthew) (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1973). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-5/8”

The Mayflower Compact (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1970). Size: 2” x 3”

Notes From Four Cities 1927-1953 by David McCord (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1969). Size: 1-7/8” x 2.75”

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Clement C. Moore, Illustrated by Tasha Tudor ((Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, nd but thought to be 1962). Size: 1-3/8” x 2-5/8”

The Inaugural Address of Richard Milhous Nixon (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, with letterpress by Enschede1969). Size: 1-13/16” x 2-5/8”

The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog by Eugene O'Neill (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1972). Size: 2.25" x 3”

The Addresses of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1977. Size: 1-7/8” x 2.75”

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1953). Size: 2” x 2.75”

PAUL REVERE’S RIDE: A DEPOSITION (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1963). Size: 1-7/8” x 2.75”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809 – 1959, The Address by Carl Sandburg Before the United States Congress, Washington D.C., February 12, 1959 (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1959). Size: 2” x 2-5/8”

Silver Jubilee Sermon of his Eminence Francis Spellman (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1957) Size: 2-1/16” x 3-1/16”

Alas, in Lilliput by Thomas Burnett Swann (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1964). Size: 1-75” x 2.5”

SHELLEY by A.C. Swinburne (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1973). Size: 1-7/7” x 2.75”

Robert Frost’s White Mountains by David Tatham (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1974). Size: 1-7/8” x 2.75”

Thoreau's Turtle Nest (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1974). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-5/8”

California on United States Postage Stamps by Francis J. Weber (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1975). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”

Mayor of Indianapolis by Francis J. Weber (Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, 1975). Size: 2.25” x 2-7/8”

Achille St. Onge (1913–1978) was a publisher of miniature books from Worchester, Massachusetts. St. Onge began publishing miniature books as a hobby in 1935, and by the time he stopped publishing in 1977, he had created 48 miniature books,^[1] which are prized by collectors.

St. Onge's publications are known for their uniformity of size and elegance and clarity of design. He oversaw every aspect of the books, and collaborated with many prominent printers, presses, type designers, and binders. Some of these include the Merrymount Press, binders Sangorski & Sutcliffe, printer and papermaker Daniel Berkeley Updike, and book designer and typographer Bruce Rogers.^[2] St. Onge published traditional, often revered texts, such as famous speeches by presidents, classic short stories and essays, sermons, eulogies, and brief biographies of famous historical figures.^[3]

A miniature book published by St. Onge was the only book taken on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, and was thus the first book on the moon.^[4] It was a copy of Robert Hutchins Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1966). The book's colophon states, "One thousand nine hundred twenty six copies of this book were printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, and bound by Proost en Brandt N.V., Amsterdam, Holland to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the launching of the first liquid-propelled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, March 16, 1926."^[5]

--From Wikipedia

The Twenty Third Psalm by Tasha Tudor (Achille J. St. Onge, 1965). Size: 2-5/8” x 3-3/4”

Here is a List of Achille J. St. Onge’s books. As well:

The Bibliomidgets of Achille J. St. Onge: A Memorial and A Bibliography 1913-1978 by Robert E. Massman (REM, 1979). Size: 2” x 2-3/8”

Lilliputian Newspapers by James D. Henderson (Book with five facsimile miniature newspapers in pocket in rear of book; book in slipcase. Achille J. St. Onge, Worcester, MA, 1936). size: 5-3/8" x 7.25"