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One of the web links posted by varielle here (http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=136640#3375999) has the following description of miniature books:
Miniature books, most of which are less than three inches tall and some of which are smaller than a penny, have delighted readers for centuries. Popular because they were easily carried or concealed, these historic books range from tiny "Thumb Bibles" to illustrated nursery rhymes.
What are these books that need to be easily concealed?
Are we talking about something much more sinister than dolls houses and poetry?
I can imagine revolutionaries smuggling their miniature editions of Das Kapital through dark alleys on the way to their wine and cheese nights or a ruthless executive engaged in hostile takeover employing the decisive tactic after quickly consulting a miniature edition of Sun Tzu.
The closest book I have is Guide to Physics: With Progress Tests and Answers. All the examinable facts and formulae in a book small enough to fit in a nervous schoolboy's palm. "Gain Exam Success" it proclaims on the cover.
Miniature books, most of which are less than three inches tall and some of which are smaller than a penny, have delighted readers for centuries. Popular because they were easily carried or concealed, these historic books range from tiny "Thumb Bibles" to illustrated nursery rhymes.
What are these books that need to be easily concealed?
Are we talking about something much more sinister than dolls houses and poetry?
I can imagine revolutionaries smuggling their miniature editions of Das Kapital through dark alleys on the way to their wine and cheese nights or a ruthless executive engaged in hostile takeover employing the decisive tactic after quickly consulting a miniature edition of Sun Tzu.
The closest book I have is Guide to Physics: With Progress Tests and Answers. All the examinable facts and formulae in a book small enough to fit in a nervous schoolboy's palm. "Gain Exam Success" it proclaims on the cover.
