MINIATURE BOOK NEWS (MBN) INDEX (1965-2012) (Issues No. 1 148) KEY All numbers refer to an issue of MBN 1) Bold Title of a book 2) Bold number (e.g.81) article in this MBN issue contains illustrations 3) UPPER CASE (i.e. ALL CAPS) Title of an article 4) Lower case Subject of an article KEY A ABC s (ABECDAIRIES, Alphabet Counters) 16,18,31 Adams, Maryline Poole 54,84 Adler, Kurt S.,Inc. 51 Adomeit, Ruth E. 37,44,51,54,63,64,88,89,92,110,114 Advertising through miniature books 52 Aeolian Harp 54 Agnus Dei 43,83,95 NEALE ALBERT AND DESIGNER BINDINGS 107,116,130,141,144 ALMACK S BALLROOM MANUAL 53 ALMANACHS MINISCULES FRANCAIS 57,58,74 Almanacks 2,3,9,37,57,58,64,66,106 Dess Alten Testaments Mittler 61 American Antiquarian Society 23,59 American miniature books 53,67 American Newspaper Directory 67 American Technical Industries, Inc. 51 AMERICAN THUMB BIBLES 12 Amistad Press of Austin,TX 37,38,53 Anacreon 38 ANCIENT CLASSICS IN MINIATURE 38 An Agnus Dei 83,95 Anatomy of Bibliomania 61 Andersen, Frank J. 53,54 Andrews and McMeel Series 90,93,96 Antiquarian Bookman 53 Arno Gschwendtner 138,145 AROUND THE WORLD-- 147 Arrowsmith Almanacks 9 THE ART OF THE BOOK 84 1
Atlases 101 Auctions 3,8,20,21,40,43,66,67,68,77,86,92,93,95,97,99,103,105 Auden, W.H. 69 Avery, Samuel P. 37 Azerbaijan-miniature books 122,123,147 B Babos, Lajos 114 BABYLONIAN TABLETS 11 Bahar, Ann 65 Baku Museum 122,123,147 Ball Booklets 29 Ball, Elisabeth 56 Barbera, G. 3,4 BASEBALL, EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF 52 Basic Miniature Books 100 BATAK MANUSCRIPTS 28 Beaverdam Press 53 Beinecke Library (Yale) 5,49,50 Belgium Exhibit 69 Berlin Store 124 Bibles 9,10,12,83,85 BIBLE HISTORIES 56,83 Bible de Petit Poucet 56 The Bible in Miniature 61,64 Bible sayings books 33,61 Biblia 61 Biblio 97 Bibliographies First editions 47 German 46,47 Internet, 98 KEY REFERENCE SOURCES 3,112 Log-Anne Press 46 Russian 44,45 Spanish 48 Thumb Bibles 44 Bibliography and References 3,15,16,63,97,98,100,101,112,142 Bibliotheca Wittockiana 69 Bibliotheque des enfans 56 Bibliotheque en Miniature 19 Bibliotheque Portative 13 2
Bijou Picture of London 64 Bijou Picture of Paris 64 Bindings 6,7,16,31,32,53,55,67,68,77,96,99,107,116,140 BIRCH BARK POEMS 100 Le Blason Des Fleurs 56 Black Cat Press (Norman Forgue) 5,6,8,11,37,38,51 BELA BLAU 78 Bloem-Hofje 66,71,140 BLOOMSBURY BOOK AUCTION 103 BOARD, FRED 101 BOETHIUS 27,38 Bondy, Louis W. 12,48,77,78,112 Bookbinding 53,124,141,142 BookCases 15 Book-Case of instruction and delight, The 56 Bookplates,miniature 5,7,27,41,49,86,92,95,117 BOOKS AS ART OBJECTS 119 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 36,56 Book of Hours 54,55,87,89 Book of Instructions and Rules 89 BOOM 142 Boreman, Thomas 25,56,64,66,107 Borrower s Press of Maine 37,38 Boston Public Library Exhibit 131,132,135 Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-Four Classes English Plants 87 Bracelet 14 Bradbury, Robert 92,112 Breed, Butler & Co., of Buffalo 50 BRILLIANTS 8,9,64,116 British Museum 26 Bromer, Anne 47 Bromer Booksellers (Boston) 38,48,106,108,113 Bromer Publications 37,130,131 Bronte, Charlotte 25,146 Bronte Press 53 Bryce, David & Sons (Glasgow) 10,51,64,67,146 Buch der bruderlichen Bestraff und von I.H.S.,Das 56 Butterfly Books 69 C Cabinet of Lilliput 35,89 Calendar of Saints 8,64,66,94 3
Calendars, Viennese 42 y Caniedydd 9 Cape, Stephen 110 Castaing, Roger 57,58 Catalogues Received many issues Catharijne Press 113 Catullus 38 Center for Book Arts Exhibit 69 Cervantes Don Quixote 130 CHAPBOOKS 32,68 CHARBNEAU 15 Charity Auction 105,124 Chats About Miniature Books 66 Cheney, Wm. M. 37 CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY-145 Children s Sets 3,19 Children s Bibles 83 Christie s Auctions 40,104,130 Christmas tree ornaments--51 Cicero 34,38 CIVIL WAR GENERALS 4 CLASSICS, ANCIENT 38,41 COLLECCION CRISOL 13 Collecting Miniature Books 53 Collections of miniature books, in libraries 37,49,51 large 37,44,51,72 Collins, Evron 58,101 Congress, Library of 34 Condition 71 Constitution of Holland 60 CONTRACEPTION 108 Coolidge, Calvin, Autobiography of 64 Coptic books 44 Cook, David C. 10 Crackerjack 17,75 CRIES OF LONDON, A DISCRIPTION 39,51 Curran, Rev. Joseph 114 D DAILY FOOD 5 DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO 2,33 DAIRYMAN S DAUGHTER 5 Dante 64 4
Dawson s Bookshop (Los Angeles) 9,36,37,38,44,46,48,51,52 Declaration of Independence signers 138 De Flagrorum 64 DeLancey, James F. 54 De Vinne 8,9,64,116 DEW DROPS 5 D harani 8,93 Dictionaries 18,19,20,37 Didot, Henri 60 Directions for Playing with a Set of Squares 78 Divina Commedia 64 Dods-cookery 64 DOG EARED MAGAZINE 118 Doll House (Colleen Moore) 99 Dominic Winter Auction 95 Don Quixote 130 DOS-A-DOS BINDINGS 32 DREAM BOOKS --102,103,104 Dunn, Frances 6,61 DUTCH CHILDREN S LIBRARY 29 Dutch miniature books 67 E Edison, Julian I. 14,22,30,37,40,44,51,68,130,131 EGYPTIAN SCARAB 11 Eliot, T.S. 69 THE ELTON CATALOGUE 6 Emancipation Proclamation 54,103,142 Enschede Press (Amsterdam) 37 Epictetius 38 Erotica 80 Ethiopian Miniature Manuscripts 89 Evangile selon St. Matthieu 60,64 Evergreen Miniature Library, Child s 49 EVETTS, DEBORAH 141 Exhibitions 2 F FDR as A MINIATURE BOOK COLLECTOR 4 The Famous History of Valentine & Orson 64 Le Favori des enfans 56 5
Filigree bindings 16 First editions in miniature 47 Fisher & Brothers 22,49 Flamen, Albert 39 Fletcher, H.M. 14 Folger Shakespeare Library 72,77 Folio Sizes 37 Forgue, Norman 7,97 Fox, Gabrielle 130 French Almanachs 57,58,74 French miniature books 80 Fruits of Philosophy 108 Freundeskreis (Berlin) 108 Le Futet des Salons 61 G Galileo a Madama Christina 2,22,33,64,66 Galleria Dantesca Micro scopica 64 Garbett, Michael (UK) 116 Gass, Catherine 132 Gazette Press of Concord 50 German miniature books 46,47,85 German Miniature Book Society 82 German Series 13,70 Gschwendtner, Arno 138 Gigantick History, The 56,64 Girdle Book 93 Gleniffer Press of Ian Macdonald (Paisley, Scotland)--33,36 Godly & Necessarye Prayers 56 GOLDEN TREASURY 10 Gold bindings 44,68 GOLD WATCH AS BOOK COVER 107 Goldstein Press 53 GOODY TWO SHOES 23,26 Kate Greenaway s Alphabet 56 Grolier Club 13,27,28,37,116,118,122,123,133,134 Groom T. (Publisher) 22 Groundwet 60 Grunzweig, Raphael 90 Guinness Book of World Records 33,36,44,52,53,108,117 6
H Handbook of Practical Cookery 64 Hanson, Robert F. 37 HARVARD S HOUGHTON LIBRARY 8 Harvard Library Exhibit 125,126 HAZELTIME & PISO 3,10,85 Hebrew 17,18,19,20,54,60,64,78,79,86,90 Hebrew Prayer book, smallest 42,64 Henderson, James D. 4,5,6,7,37,44,81 Heures de Cour 56 Hildreth, Don 70 Hillside Press of Frank E. Irwin 9,22,37,38,43,51 Hippocrates 38 Historical treatise on miniature books 49 HISTORIES OF THE BIBLE 12,83 HISTORIES OF POOR BOYS 9 History of Beasts in Miniature 87 History of Generals 4 History of Miniature Books 19,53 Hitler 21,22,50,70 Hoffman, Richard 65 Holy Bible 64,67 Homer 38 Hoover, Herbert, Speech 67 Horace 38,60 Horae 68 Hornbook 4,8,70 Horodisch, Abraham 20,55,57 Hoshino, Asao, of Tokyo 42,44 Houghton, Arthur 2,8,40,65 Auction 40,43 Bookplate 49 LIBRARY 83,124,125,126,131 HOW TO HONDLE 73 Huet, Roger 87 Hungarian miniature books 37,55,75,106 Hungary 8,11,14,26,30,147 Huntington Library 64,65,140,144,146 Hymns 54 7
I Incunabula 13,56,64,65 INDIA-147 India Paper 36 INDIANA KID, Weygand, J.L. 46 Infant s Cabinet of Fruit, Roots, etc.,--66,67 Infant s Cabinet of the Cries of London, The 56 Infant s Cabinet of Various Objects, The 56,89 Infant s own bookcase, The 56 Infant s Library 32,56,85,89 INGLIS, ESTHER, CALLIGRAPHER 76,87 International Book Design Exhibition, Internet Resources 98 Internet, resources 98 Irish 27 Irwin, Eleanor 43 Irwin, Frank 43,54 Israel Trip -144 Italian 13 J J. Hamer 64 Jackson, Holbrook 61 Jaeck, Angelika 124 Janka Gyula 26,54,55 Japanese 12 Japanese miniature books 12,37,144 Japan Trip-144 Jen Press 53 Jeweled bindings 42,44 Judaica (See Hebrew) Junipero Serra Press 51 Juniper Von Phitzer Press 53 K Kate Greenaway s Alphabet 56 Kempis, Thomas A. 41 Khayyam, Omar; The Rubaiyat 64,73 Kingsport Press of Tennessee 39,64 Kitemaug Press 53 KNJIGA (Yugoslav for Book ) 33,36 8
Konenko, Anatolii-146 Korans, miniature 44,64,79,80,83,137 Kundig, Andrew (Publisher) 23 Koblenz (Germany) Conclave 102 Kostyuk, Yaroslav 123 L La Lanterne Magique 3 LATVIA--144 Leipzig Exhibition 66 Levien, J.R. 20,27,30,82,102 Levitan, Dr. Kalman L. 53,54,67 LIBRARIES with miniature books 128 Library of Congress 22 LILLIPUT BIBLIOTHEK 37 Lilliput, the Cabinet of 35 Lilliput, The Miniature Book Oval Saloon of Tokyo 43,116 LILLIPUTIAN FOLIOS 32,89 Lilly Library 56,98,110,111,140 Lincoln, Abraham; Addresses of 64,76 Lincoln-Emancipation Proclamation 103 Lindemann, Caroline-Collection 127,132 Little Book House Museum 26 Little Flirt, The 43 Little Folks Library 28 Little Library 19 LIVRES MINISCULES A LA FRANCAIS 80 LJUBLJANA EXHIBITION CATALOGUE--145 Lockets 95 Logan, Herschel C. 38,56 Log-Anne Press (California) 46,51 Loket, Czech Republic 136 London Almanacs 2,37,66,93,103,109,138 Loomis and Peck 28 Lothrop & Co. (Boston) 50 Lummis-Birch Bark 100 M Macdonald, Ian (Gleniffer Press) 33,51 Magna Carta 89 Mark Twain 59 McGehee, Caroline 54,72,132 9
Manuscripts 21,55,58,68,86,87,113,137 Maori 4 Mao Tse Tung 120/121 Marcus, Stanley 34,49,51,53,54,84,112 Marshall, John 39 Massmann, Robert E. 3,17,34,35,38,49,50,52,56,60,64,65,74, 75,81,88,96,97,102,103,104 Maximes et Reflexions Morales, by de la Rochfoucauld 60,61,64 MEDALLIONS, MINIATURE 32,36 Meibomius, De Flagrorum 38,64 Meig s Rubaiyat 25,67,81 Merriam, Moore & Co. (Troy, NY) 50 Meurs--54 MICROBIBLIOPHILE 1,37,91,101 Micro miniatures (ultra smallest) 123,136 MIDGET LONDON 1,8 MIDGET SERIES, THE 9 Miklaf, Yehuda--144 MIKROBIBLIOFIOK (Hungary) 26,37,54,101 MIKROBIBLION 23,24 Mills, Alfred 6,31,68 MINIATURE BIBLE & LECTERN 10 MINIATURE BOOK (BASICS) 100 MINIATURE BOOK CASES 15 MINIATURE BOOK CHARITY AUCTION 105,124 MINIATURE BOOK COLLECTOR 2,37,44,101 Miniature Book definition 1,2,87 MINIATURE BOOK GOES TO THE MOON 18 MINIATURE BOOK MUSEUM (Japan) 12,37,144 Miniature Book Oval Saloon--144 MINIATURE BOOK NEWS 33,38,53,101 MINIATURE BOOK NEWS INDEX --- 148 MINIATURE BOOKS, Julian I. Edison 14 Miniature Books about miniature books (see Bibliography) Miniature Book Society 53,54,57,58,60,62,65,66,71,72,73, 75,78,81,82,85,86,89,90,91,93,94,97,98,102,106,138 Website (mbs.org) 108 MINIATURE BOOKS and The MAFIA (TV) 117 MINIATURE BOOKS IN LATVIA--145 MB SOCIETY BOOK AWARDS COMPETITION 75 Miniature Books: 4,000 Years 131 Miniature Book Society Travelling Exhibit 60,96,98 MINIATURE BOOKS, WHERE TO FIND 68,73 MINIATURE FRENCH ALMANACS 57,58 10
MINIATURE GEOGRAPHIA 101 Miniaturbuch Journal 93,101 Miniature Bibliotheek 19 Miniature Magazines 11,73 MINIATURE MUSEUM OF GREATER ST. LOUIS--146 Miniature Type 8,9,60 MINIATURIA 115 Miniaturna Kniga 53 MINUSCULE EXHIBIT, LYON, FRANCE 140,142 MINI-BOOKS 5,65 Mini Magazines 11 Mini-Press 53 MINI PROSPECTI 73 Minkus, Jacques 90 The Mite 64 Moon, Flight to the 18 Moore, Colleen 99 Morgan Library 55,56,85,107,137 Mosaic Press (Cincinnati) 37,38 Mott s Miniature Collection 97 Movable Books 96 Muller, Heinz 82,94 Murray, Gordon 51 My Tiny Alphabet Book 64 N Nazi (See Hitler) NAZI BOOKLETS-DUTCH VARIETY 73 Nazi miniatures 50,73,85 Newbery, John (London) 36,52,78,85 News-Letters of the LXIVMOS 4,5,6,7,15,37,81,101 Newspapers (miniature) 72 New Testament 54,64 NIGERIAN JU-JU--10 Noel 67 NUREMBERG COUNTERS 4 Numismatic book 93,119 O O Donnell, Miniaturia 115 Office De Nostre Dame 53 Oldest miniature books 38,40,42,44,48,51 11
Old King Cole 53,108 Onuma, Kaszushige (Tokyo) 43 t Oranje Geslagt 64,71 OSBORNE COLLECTION-EARLY CHILDRENS 119 Oxford University Press 361 P Pacific Book Auction 133 PAILLER-MINI-EDITIONS 80,81,82 PAIRAULT S COLLECTION MINUSCULE 7 Paper size of books 37 Peele, G. Tale of Troy 20 PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS 10,80 Le Petit astroloque en belle humeur 56 Le Petite Voliere 61 Pequeno Press 93 Petrarca 64 Petronius Arbiter 38 Philadelphia, Free Library 68 Picasso, Pablo 54 Picture Book of Birds (A) 87 PICTURES OF REAL LIFE 58 Pindar 38 Piso Almanachs 3,10,85 Plastic bindings 45 Pochtovik, Pavel 62,75 POCKET PRAYER BOOKS 86 Pool Press (California) 52 POPE JOAN 103 Pope John Paul II 114 Pope Benedict XVI--144 Pop-Up-Books 96 Portugal-Miniature Books--147 Proclamation of Emancipation, The 54 Prokosch, Frederic 47,69 Psalms 22,54,64 Publishers of miniature books (U.S.) 2,38 Pudd nhead Wilson (Mark Twain) Calendar 59 PURPOSE OF MINIATURE BOOK NEWS 2 Q Quads for Authors 61 12
Quatres Saisons (Les) 87 R Raheb, Barbara 37,38,77,81 Randle, Burt 49,52 Rebecca Press 53 Reid-Cunningham, James 124,142,143 Reissman, Milton 69 Reilly & Britton Co.,--52 Religious 22 RENAISSANCE CLASSICS IN MINIATURE 41 A Reward for attention 56 Rich, Jeremiah & swift writing 35 Rich s Shorthand Bibles 26,64 Rickard, Kathryn, R. 72 La Rime 64 Roginski, Jini 35 De La Rochefoucauld, Francoise 61,64 Roma Minima 7 Roosevelt, Franklin D 4,50 Rosenbach 10 THE ROSENBACH COLLECTION OF EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN S BOOKS 10 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 56,67,73,81 RUMP CONCLAVE 102 Running Press Miniatures 79 Russian Collector (Ilkin)-oldest 128 Russian miniature books 44,45,62,75,96,146 S St. Augustine 38 La Sainte Bible 61 St. Onge, Achille-7,9,11,17,18,22,34,37,49,51,67,92,97 Sallistius 38 Sanford, Donn (talk) 129 GEORGE SALOMON COLLECTION 74,75 SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE 76 Scarabs 11 Schiller, Justin 88,107 SCANDINAVIAN MINIATURE BOOKS --- 148 Schloss Almanacks 17,64 Schmidt & Gunther 9,10,37 13
Schori Press 7,37,53,93 Schori, Ward K 49,53,54,83,93,94 Schulz, Charles M 51 Scott Free Press 53 Seneca 38,64 Shakespeare 3,7,144 Shape of miniature books 52,102 Short Account of the First Rise & Progress of Printing 64 Silver bindings 31,36,42,91 Silvain, Hubert 127 Sketchbooks, miniature 39 Smallest books 2,33,34,36,37,42,44,49,52,103 Smallest English Dictionary 64 THE SMALLEST MINIATURE BOOKS 33,96,114,117,118,120/121,123 Small Rain 5 Smith, Charlotte M. 91,92 SMITHSONIAN AND FOLGER 77 Smoker s Text Book 64 Snagg, R. 32,64 Snuff box almanack 37 Somesuch Press of Dallas 38,53 Sotheby s 40,43,105 Spanish miniature books 13,48,147 Spielmann Catalogue 1,77 Spielmann, Percy Edwin 15,37,39,48,77 STONE, WILBUR MACEY 24,25,37,95 STOLEN MINIATURE BOOKS 116 Storage Arrangements 120/121 Sunbeam Books 52 Sunday School Union 56 LES SURPRISES 3 Swann Galleries 86,92,93,99 Swedish Books 32 Szkocny, Zigmont 138,139 T Tabula Rasa Press 53 Talamantez & Wong 53 The Tale of Troy 20,43 Tamazunchale Press 21,91,92 (Taylor, John) 61,83 Television Program (CBS), 2006 129 Terrence 38 14
Theft Alert 98 Thompson, Eben F. 33,37 Thumb Bibles 12,44,89 (Tom Thumb) 56,85 Thurkow, Guus 60,71,113 Tilt, Charles 28 Timm, Jill 130 THE TINY LIBRARY 11 Tissandier 74,75 Tokyo MB 12 (see Lilliput) Toppan Printing Co. (Tokyo) 7,33,144 Torah (smallest known) 35 Travelling Libraries 13,60,64,103,105 Tuer, Andrew W. 61 Tuttle 117 Twain, Mark 59 Twentieth Century miniature book activity 37 Typography 8,9,20,21,22 Typorello (longest miniature book) 137 U Ukraine Miniature Book Museum--147 Urbina Set 3 University of North Texas Library 140 University of Virginia (rare book) Library 127,140 V Valentine & Orson (see Famous History) Vending Machine Mini-Books 65 Venetian Masks 67 Verbum Sempiternum 12,60,61,83 Vertes, Jeno 32 Ver-Vert 64 Virgil 38 W WALDMANN & PFITZNER 2,4,33,37 Wall, Bernhardt 51,52 Wall Street Journal article, 2006 129 William L. Washburn 81 Washington s Farewell Address 64 15
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT, 1965 2 Weber, Msgr. Francis J. 49,51,52,54,72,73 Weever, John 83 Welch, d alte 4,14,32 WELSH BIBLIOGRAPHY DIGITIZED --- 148 Welsh, Doris 19,53,63,67,70 DORIS V. WELSH COLLECTION 75 Welsh Books 9 Werner Co. (Chicago) 52 Westminster Abbey 66 Weygand, James Lamar 5,46 WHERE TO FIND MINIATURE BOOKS 68,73 Wice, David 130 JULIA WIGHTMAN 82,85,95,107 Winterstein, Irene M. 29,101,104,105 Winthrop, Henry Rogers 49 Winthrop Press 35,60 WOODEN BINDINGS 7 WORLD LEADERS 114,136 WORLD S OLDEST PRINTING ON PAPER 8 WORLD RECORD PRICE 113 WORLD S SMALLEST BIBLE 85 WORLD S SMALLEST BOOK 2 X Xavier Press 53 Y YALE S BEINECKE LIBRARY 5,49,50 Yarnell, James 54 Yellow Kid Press 38 Yugoslav Miniature Book Exhibition 51 Young Sportsman s Instructor 64 Z Znidersic, Dr. Martin 51,53,120/121,144,145 16