The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books
Return to: 20th Century U. S. Imprints in the Smith Collection
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.
Bird and Bull Press
North Hills, PA
1979-
Morris, Henry. An O'Henry Gift From Henry. N. Hills: Bird and Bull
Press, 1978.
Colophon: A long miniature scroll in which Henry Morris, the printer,
recounts the story of printing his first and only miniature book for
Anne and David Bromer. This scroll was pasted together from sheets of
type he set for what was to be a second miniature entitled "The Gift
of the Magi." Henry abandoned the project in frustration and used the
sheets as a Christmas greeting. The scroll measures 2 1/8" wide and
is enclosed in a plastic bottle with top, which measures 2 7/8" from
cap to base. An oddity, to be sure, with about 250 being bottled.
B20th 12137.
