Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(MINIATURE BOOKS.) Omar Khayyám. The Rose Garden . . . Founded on the Persian by Eben Francis Thompson. 4x6 mm, limp red morocco, and other volumes, see note. The larger facsimile and proof sheet are lacking from this set, but related volumes included. Worcester, 1932

Additional Details

The smallest edition of the Rubáiyát and one of the smallest books ever printed. Laid in a 1/2 morocco book box, as issued, together with a proof sheet ; a magnifying glass; a larger edition of The Rose Garden (measuring 42x35); Chamberlain's The Real Omar Khayyam (Worcester, 1933); Kind Words about The Smallest Printed Book in the World (Worcester, 1934); and Thompson's A Thimbleful of Books, Being Some Account of Small Books in All Ages (8vo, Worcester, 1933). Bondy, page 154; Spielmann 396A.