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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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