[Leadenhall Press; lacking the miniature book but that's a story to be told below] Quads within Quads for Authors, editors, and devils

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[Leadenhall Press]
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London : Field and Tuer. Simpkin: Hamilton. 1884
£450.00
SKU: 24809

Title from cover of enlarged edition: Quads within quads. 94, [2] pages : illustrations; 16 cm. LACKING miniature book. PROSPECTUS, 10 x 11cm, tipped onto front free endpaper. Condition of contents good, but foxing of endpapers and edges of other pages. Covers sl. mottled. SEE IMAGE. A collection of printer's jokes from Paper and Printing Trades Journal. Edition statements at head of titles: Enlarged edition, Midget folio substituted by a note written by Miniature Collector, E.G. Millar (see Note below).The miniature and the enlarged editions had been issued together; the miniature edition WAS housed in book-box portion of the enlarged edition.Title of enlarged edition within ornamental border. Integral publisher's ads, [2] pages at end (enlarged edition).Note: The intended receptacle of the miniature book, 3.5 x 5 x1cm, contains a crumpled note as follows: The book [miniature] placed in my miniature bookcase. | E,G. Millar. According to the book, The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967 (British Museum, 1968), p. 77, his miniature book collection was bequeathed to a Jane Martineau.