MINIATURE BOOKS. An extensive collection of over 350 miniatu...

MINIATURE BOOKS. An extensive collection of over 350 miniature books, predominantly 19th and 20th century, including rare 'Replica Miniature The Times of India (for Bombay, 27 Feb 1924) in the Queen's Dolls' House' (in gilt-titled green binding), alongside The Times miniature facsimile (in orig. printed envelope); David Bryce & Son (Glasgow) miniature Holy Bible (c. 1896) and Bryce's Thumb Dictionary; two wallet-bound Victoria Miniature Almanacks for 1854 and 1861 (both Kent & Co/Allen); Dorothy Kunhardt's Tiny Golden Library (12 vols., 1949, with the folding street-scene/grocery shop box); Murray's Classic Fairy Tales (12 vols. in folding diorama bookshop box); and numerous other works, including children's titles (incl. Blyton, Tolkien), tartan cloth bindings (incl. Valentine & Sons, Monteith & Sanders), folding metal souvenir and devotional locket books, miniature Shakespeare sets, etc., amongst the publishers Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Humphrey Milford / OUP, Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Raphael Tuck & Sons, Collins, Allied Newspapers, del Prado, and others; together with a multi-compartment wooden wall display shelf. [viewing recommended; sold as a collection with all faults] (c.370)

Estimate:£300

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