THE BIGGEST BOOK.
The world’s biggest book is at the British Museum. This is a huge tome sft lOin high by 3ft 2in across. It is a volume of maps presented to Charles 11. by merchants at Amsterdam in IGGO. The binding is a masterpiece of morocco, four skins beingused for each panel. It is decorated in gold figures of harps, roses and crowns, and huge brass bosses and clasps are clamped on,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 212, 19 June 1944, Page 2
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73THE BIGGEST BOOK. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 212, 19 June 1944, Page 2
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