Her first miniature book was about an inch and a half tall. It was a prayer book bound in ivory with a velveteen spine and satin endpapers. Caroline Brandt puts the year of publication at around 1850.

They're not the kind of books you'd take out of the library. You won't find them in a local bookstore, either. In fact, some of them are almost impossible to find at all, explains CBS Sunday Morning ...

In 1976, the title of World’s Smallest Book (printed with moveable metal type) went to an A-Z printing of the text type Gill Titling, with each letter, inked in 3-point-type, appearing on a single ...

Tommy Wixon of Pascagoula does not know exactly where his penchant for collecting ends and his love of history and genealogy begins, but he is certain he has a gene that draws him toward a world of ...

A grand collection of miniature volumes — 950 of them — is now on display at the Grolier Club in New York City. Selections from "A Matter of Size: Miniature Bindings and Texts from the Collection of ...

Every once in a while, a book comes across my desk that I cannot stop looking at, and such is the case with “Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures” by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison ...

“I’ve never seen anything like this before and I’ve been working here for 26 years,” said a senior director at the Montreal Jewish Public Library. MONTREAL (JTA) — In her 96 years on earth, Lilly Toth ...

If you had young eyes, a good magnifying glass and a lifetime, you might be able to plow through most of the magnificent miniature book collection at the University of Iowa Library. Lifetime being the ...

How does one define a book? Most commonly, a book (or “codex”) is defined as a written or printed work that consists of pages sewn or glued together along one side that has some kind of cover, or a ...