Tuesday, March 31, 2020

SILVER THIMBLE BOOKS

                                              Silver Thimble Books (1982-1987)
by Gordon Murray, a British television producer, puppeteer, artist, and miniature book publisher

Three in a Slipcase (1985):
Advice from a Caterpillar by Lewis Carroll
from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Kenneth Grahame 
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Archibald Marshall
Book sizes: 1-5/8” x 2-1/8”.  Cloth boards with hand-colored pictorial label on front cover.  Hand-colored illustrations.  Slipcase with paper label. Each book is full of hand-colored illustrations and is signed by the designer/publisher.









The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in slipcase Silver Thimble Books, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, 1985. 30/50. Signed by Gordon Murray). Size: 1-5/8” x 2-1/8”



COVENT GARDEN by Henry Mayhew  (in slipcase Silver Thimble Books, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, 1983). Size: 1-5/8” x 2”



The Innocent Eye by Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Love Peacock (in slipcase. Silver Thimble Books, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, 1987. 21/32. Signed by Gordon Murray). Size: 2” x 2.5”. 









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