MINIATURE BOOK - THE ENGLISH BIJOU ALMANAC FOR 1838 - FINE LEATHER BINDING

MINIATURE BOOK - THE ENGLISH BIJOU ALMANAC FOR 1838 - FINE LEATHER BINDING

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[MINIATURE BOOK]. The English Bijou Almanac for 1838. London: Schloss, [1838].

Leather-bound in slipcase, miniature (20mm x 15mm x 4mm), unpaginated; English text. Bound in publisher's contemporary limp red morocco with gilt ruled and tooled covers and presented in the original decorative slipcase. All page edges gilt. Green endpapers. 6 engraved plates by Letitia E. Landon. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing to the slipcase, otherwise an excellent and very well-preserved copy. Scarce.

Notes: "Between 1836 and 1843, there appeared in London a series of all-engraved almanacs of quite exceptional quality, published by Albert Schloss, Fancy Stationer to Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent. For the first three years they were called The English Bijou Almanac and from 1839 to 1843 Schloss's English Bijou Almanac. They are true miracles of engraving, illustration, binding and presentation." (Bondy, Miniature books). "A miracle of fine and delicate engraving, done consistently and beautifully to an almost unbelievably tiny scale." (Percy E. Spielmann).

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