WORLD’S SMALLEST BOOK.
The smallest book in the world is only a quarter of an inch high and three-sixteenths of an inch wide. An English translation of the chief parts of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, privately printed by the Commonwealth Press at Worcester, Massachusetts, two years ago, it has been presented to the Bodleian Library at Oxford by an American poet, Mr. Henry H. Chamberlin. The book is bound in plain red morocco covers, weighs a grain and a half, and contains thirty-tour Indiapaper pages. The type area on each page is just over one sixty-eighth of a square inch. The setting of the type was such a delicate task that it could be done only at night, when the vibration of the office machinery and passing traffic had ceased.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIV, Issue 3342, 26 November 1934, Page 2
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131WORLD’S SMALLEST BOOK. Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIV, Issue 3342, 26 November 1934, Page 2
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