The Boston Public Library has a new show: Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures. Depicted, “Little Flower Garden”, weighing in at 13×9mm, and thought to be the smallest book in the world until 1900. Some are actually printed with movable type, using a 2-point font in the case of 1898’s Galileo a Madama Cristina de Lorena. Others are handmade. You can see more pictures at the Boston Globe.
Or, you can buy the newly published companion book at Amazon
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I'm Michael Condouris, and this is my second blog. The first one's Wacky Neighbor. I was born in 1975 in New Jersey. I live in Aberdeen, NJ, with my fiancée Carrie, in our new suburban paradise. We have two pets, a Shih Tzu named Coco and a beagledor named Zoë. I was on Jeopardy once. I lost, though, just like in the Weird Al song.
Besides Smallistry, my interests include robots, space, movies, movies about robots and/or space, and Mexican restaurants. Recently I've also become fond of the Wii and ancient history. I dislike conversations about food, sports, other people's children, and conspiracy theories. I'm ok with talking about the weather though. My hat size is 7 1/4, and I have no sense of smell.
I've pretty much stopped blogging in the last, oh, 6 months or so, because talking about tiny things got a bit stale and life had a habit of getting in the way. So for the time being, the site will live on as a Twitter feed of whatever floats through my head.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 am
They are so sweet !
I love them ..
August 24th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Really wonderful! There’s another article on the same topic: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/foer.php