Galatea Library's books were collected from March 2019 to September 2020. Subsequent books collected are featured at the Victoria Library Collection.
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Your curator would like to share the story of her "first book" and the Tiny Book replica she made of it: "My First Book" by Eileen R. Tabios as part of the Marsh Hawk Press "Chapter One Project."
(See Miniature Book Library Photos HERE)
Your curator would like to share the link to her miniature book (which is available with or without its normative-size book), The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019 (Marsh Hawk Press):
Your curator also would like to share a review of two of her miniature books by Missouri Poet Laureate Karen Craigo: "Achilles" and "5 Tankas" by Eileen R. Tabios
Your curator also would like to share links to two miniature book exhibits that she organized: "The Miniature Book Collection of Eileen R. Tabios, Author" at the Saint Helena Public Library, and "Maliliit Na Aklat" featuring miniature books by Ivy Alvarez, Aileen Cassinetto, Paolo Javier/Emmanuel Lacaba, Matt Manalo, Ulysses Duterte, Sean Labrador Manzano, and E.R. Tabios.
Your curator also participated in the "7 books/7 days" project of posting favorite miniature books on Miniature Book Society's Facebook page; I highlightied contributions of contemporary poets: Day 1-Ivy Alvarez; Day 2-Marton Koppány; Day 3-Poems-for-all/Robert Hansen; Day 4-Jules Boykoff/Susana Gardner/Dusie; Day 5-Derek Beaulieu/Tom Jenks' zimZalla; Day 6-Melinda Luisa de Jesus and her children Malaya and Stinson; Day 7-Raelinda Woad/Eileen Tabios. Enjoy!
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INDIVIDUAL SPOTLIGHTS ON SPECIAL BOOKS:
FOREDGE PAINTING BOOK: THE NEW TESTAMENT (George Eyre and Andrew Strachan 1814, no pagination, full red morocco, all edges gilt) with a fore-edge painting of St. Paul’s Cathedral London from the Thames, by Margaret Costa. Size: 2-1/8” x 3.5”
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Your curator is pleased to share her Tiny or Miniature Books Collection, for which she thanks their PUBLISHERS as well as DONORS. Under the CATALOGUE below, click on the titles and you will arrive at the blog post about the referenced book(s). The CATALOGUE will be updated over time as books are acquired.
CATALOGUE
(Filed either under "SERIES" or "INDIVIDUAL BOOKS")
(Filed either under "SERIES" or "INDIVIDUAL BOOKS")
INDIVIDUAL BOOKS:
Book List HERE. These are titles not otherwise listed under the "SERIES" category below.
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Poetry, including the Collection's Smallest Book!
(excluding Poems For All-see below) Book List HERE
Poems For All published by Robert Hansen (2001-Present)
Book List HERE
William Shakespeare
Book List HERE
(excluding the early 20th century publications of Winthrop Press-see below) Book List HERE
Winthrop Press with Collaborators
Book List HERE
HISTORY
Book List HERE
BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Book List HERE
RELIGION and CHRISTMAS
Book List HERE
Artist Books by Alice Brody
Book List HERE
Artist Books by Raelinda Woad
Book List HERE
Art Books / Books as Art Works
Book List HERE
Books Through Jewelry & Keychains
Book List HERE
Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig in der Wartelsteiner GmbH
Book List HERE
Book List HERE
Achille J. St. Onge
Book List HERE
Little Leather Library Corp. (Luxart and Redcroft)
Book List HERE
The Somesuch Press
Book List HERE
SILVER THIMBLE BOOKS / Gordon Murray (England 1982-1987)
Book List HERE
AGUILAR (Mexico - Madrid - Buenos Aires)
Book List HERE
Wild Onion Press
Book List HERE
Los Libros Mas Pequenos del Mundo (Peru)
Book List HERE
Hanuman Books founded by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente (1986-1993)
Book List HERE
JOHN H. EGGERS ON BIRD-WATCHING
Book List HERE
Children's Literature and Fairy Tales
Book List HERE
Little Little Golden Books
Book List HERE
RUNNING PRESS
Book List HERE
RP MINIS FOR DUMMIES
Book List HERE
ANDREWS and McMEEL
Book List HERE
AMERICAN GIRL
Book List HERE
ALMANACS and CALENDARS
Book List HERE
DICTIONARIES
Book List HERE
Harry Potter's World
Book List HERE
Game of Thrones World
Book List HERE
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FAVORITE CATEGORY: BIG & SMALL COMBOS!
A favorite category is "Big & Small Combos" where non-miniature books are paired with their miniature book versions. In some cases, the covers even match!
Book List HERE
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THE COLLECTION'S VARIANTS:
SOME CATEGORIES:
All titles are noted under either "SERIES" or "INDIVIDUAL BOOKS." But they can also be categorized as follows below:
Big-Small Combinations (Normatively-sized books with miniature versions)
Book List HERE
Made in Nepal
Mark Twain
Meritage Press Tiny Books (2008)
Book List HERE
One Page => Eight -Page Tiny Books (Various)
Book List HERE
Normatively-sized Books & Catalogs about Mini Books
& Other Miniatures
Twentieth Century United States Miniature Books by Robert C. Bradbury (Microbibliophile, 1999)
2019 Miniature Book Competition and Exhibition Catalog (Miniature Book Society, 2019)
The Neal M. Albert Collection of MINIATURE DESIGNER BINDINGS with photographs by Tom Grill (The Grolier Club / Piccolo Press, New York, 2006)
Xtra small: Miniature books in Museum Meermanno (De Buitenkant Publishers / Museum Meermano, Netherlands, 2017)
THE POET OF THEM ALL: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert with text by Elizabeth Fairman and James Reid-Cunningham (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/Distributor Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 2016)
MINIATURE BOOKS by Louis W. Bondy (Sheppard Press, London, 1981)
Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I Edison (Harry Abrams, 2007)
Stanley Marcus: A Life with Books by David Farmer (Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 1993)
IN MINIATURE: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield (Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2018)
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)
The News-Letters of the LXIVMOS: Complete 21 Issues Nov. 1927-Nov. 1929 curated b James D. Henderson (The Lilliputter Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1978)
The Book Club of Texas by Stanley Marcus (DeGolyer Library / Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1989)
Quest for the Best by Stanley Marcus (Signed. Viking, New York, 1979)
Minding the Store by Stanley Marcus (University of North Texas Press, 1974)
The Large World of Miniature Books by Robert Hanson (author-reprint of article he wrote for the Wilson Library Bulletin, February 1981, H.W. Wilson, 1981)
Mrs. Thorne's World of Miniatures by Sally Sexton Kalmbach (Ampersand Inc., Chicago / New Orleans 2014)
The Queen's Doll's House by Lucinda Lambton (Royal Collection Enterprises, Ltd., London, 2010)
MINIATURE BOOKS: The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Texts edited by Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter (Equinox, Sheffield and Bristol, 2019)
Mr. H. In America, or, Anonymus Redivivus by Wallace R. Nethery (First Edition, Pamphlet privately Printed by Wallace R. Nethery limited to 30 copies and his first effort as a printer, 1956). Size: 4" x 6". Subsequently, Dawson's Book Shop put out a miniature which also is in this collection shelved under "History."
A Matter of Size: Miniature Bindings & Texts From the Collection of Patricia J. Pistner (The Grolier Club, New York, 2019)
The Pistner House...A Master in Miniature by Patricia Pistner (Amber Pub, 2001)
Bider / Pictures 1991-2002 by Lois Renner, Edited by Maribel Koniger (Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, 2002)
ON LONGING: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1993)
MORE MAKING BOOKS BY HAND by Peter and Donna Thomas (Quarry Books, MA, 2004)
THE BOOK OF MINI: Inside the Big World of Tiny Things [with a Tiny Book: The Mini Book of Mini] by Kate Esme Unver (Black Dog of Leventhal Publishers, New York, 2019)
LITTLE IS BEAUTIFUL or MAKE MINE A SMALL ONE by Msgr. Francis J. Weber, with Appended Bibliography compiled by Robert F. Hanson (Opuscula Press, Ellenton, Florida, 1995)
The History of Miniature Books by Doris V. Welsh (Fort Orange Press, Inc., Albany, N.Y., 1987)
Big-Small Combinations (Normatively-sized books with miniature versions)
Book List HERE
Made in Nepal
Mark Twain
Meritage Press Tiny Books (2008)
Book List HERE
One Page => Eight -Page Tiny Books (Various)
Book List HERE
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Dwarsliggers
(21st century book sized to an iPhone)
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Normatively-sized Books & Catalogs about Mini Books
& Other Miniatures
Twentieth Century United States Miniature Books by Robert C. Bradbury (Microbibliophile, 1999)
2019 Miniature Book Competition and Exhibition Catalog (Miniature Book Society, 2019)
The Neal M. Albert Collection of MINIATURE DESIGNER BINDINGS with photographs by Tom Grill (The Grolier Club / Piccolo Press, New York, 2006)
Xtra small: Miniature books in Museum Meermanno (De Buitenkant Publishers / Museum Meermano, Netherlands, 2017)
THE POET OF THEM ALL: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert with text by Elizabeth Fairman and James Reid-Cunningham (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/Distributor Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 2016)
MINIATURE BOOKS by Louis W. Bondy (Sheppard Press, London, 1981)
Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I Edison (Harry Abrams, 2007)
Stanley Marcus: A Life with Books by David Farmer (Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 1993)
IN MINIATURE: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield (Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2018)
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)
The News-Letters of the LXIVMOS: Complete 21 Issues Nov. 1927-Nov. 1929 curated b James D. Henderson (The Lilliputter Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1978)
The Book Club of Texas by Stanley Marcus (DeGolyer Library / Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1989)
Quest for the Best by Stanley Marcus (Signed. Viking, New York, 1979)
Minding the Store by Stanley Marcus (University of North Texas Press, 1974)
The Large World of Miniature Books by Robert Hanson (author-reprint of article he wrote for the Wilson Library Bulletin, February 1981, H.W. Wilson, 1981)
Mrs. Thorne's World of Miniatures by Sally Sexton Kalmbach (Ampersand Inc., Chicago / New Orleans 2014)
The Queen's Doll's House by Lucinda Lambton (Royal Collection Enterprises, Ltd., London, 2010)
MINIATURE BOOKS: The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Texts edited by Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter (Equinox, Sheffield and Bristol, 2019)
Mr. H. In America, or, Anonymus Redivivus by Wallace R. Nethery (First Edition, Pamphlet privately Printed by Wallace R. Nethery limited to 30 copies and his first effort as a printer, 1956). Size: 4" x 6". Subsequently, Dawson's Book Shop put out a miniature which also is in this collection shelved under "History."
A Matter of Size: Miniature Bindings & Texts From the Collection of Patricia J. Pistner (The Grolier Club, New York, 2019)
The Pistner House...A Master in Miniature by Patricia Pistner (Amber Pub, 2001)
Bider / Pictures 1991-2002 by Lois Renner, Edited by Maribel Koniger (Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, 2002)
ON LONGING: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1993)
MORE MAKING BOOKS BY HAND by Peter and Donna Thomas (Quarry Books, MA, 2004)
THE BOOK OF MINI: Inside the Big World of Tiny Things [with a Tiny Book: The Mini Book of Mini] by Kate Esme Unver (Black Dog of Leventhal Publishers, New York, 2019)
LITTLE IS BEAUTIFUL or MAKE MINE A SMALL ONE by Msgr. Francis J. Weber, with Appended Bibliography compiled by Robert F. Hanson (Opuscula Press, Ellenton, Florida, 1995)
The History of Miniature Books by Doris V. Welsh (Fort Orange Press, Inc., Albany, N.Y., 1987)
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OTHER RELATED BOOKS:
Mr. H. In America, or, Anonymus Redivivus by Wallace R. Nethery (First Edition, Pamphlet privately Printed by Wallace R. Nethery limited to 30 copies and his first effort as a printer, 1956). Size: 4" x 6". COMPANION to the miniature book version.
The Course of Time by Robert Pollok (Leavitt & Allen, New York, 1854). COMPANION to miniature book version.
Mr. H. In America, or, Anonymus Redivivus by Wallace R. Nethery (First Edition, Pamphlet privately Printed by Wallace R. Nethery limited to 30 copies and his first effort as a printer, 1956). Size: 4" x 6". COMPANION to the miniature book version.
The Course of Time by Robert Pollok (Leavitt & Allen, New York, 1854). COMPANION to miniature book version.
SHANGHAIED by Robert White Wirtz with illustrations by Marvin E. Smith (Black Cat Press, 1934). Keepsake volume of 425 copies of which only 75 were available for sale. 4-5/8" x 6-5/8" COMPANION to the miniature book version.
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MINIATURE BOOK CATEGORIES:
Macro-Mini (between 4 and 3 inches tall)
Miniature (between 3 and 2 inches tall)
Micro-Miniature (between 2 and 1 inches tall)
Ultra Micro-Mini (less than 1 inch tall)
