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The Charlotte M. Smith
Collection of Miniature Books

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA 52242-1420
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The portion of this website in front of you brings together in preliminary fashion a variety of lists and descriptions for United States Miniature Books published during the Twentieth Century. The books have then been organized by press or publisher as described in Robert C. Bradbury's Twentieth Century United States Miniature Books (No. Clarendon, Vermont: The Microbibliophile, 2000). This page describes titles held by the University of Iowa Libraries for the press or publisher described below. The descriptions generally follow Bradbury's format: Author. Title. Imprint (if it varies from the heading), date. Size in inches. Number of pages. Brief physical description. Illustrations note. Copy # of [##] copies.

 

Benzinger Brothers
New York

The Child's Prayer-Book: Instructions and Prayers for Catholic Children. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benzinger Brothers, 1914 [?]. 3 3/4" x 2 7/16". 188pp.
Leather, gold stamped decoration on front cover, blind stamped back cover. Gold stamped title on spine. B20th not listed. Gift of Carol Kapell in Memory of Pauline B. Deems.

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