THE BIGGEST BOOK
.''.The world's biggest book is. in the British Museum. .It is a gazetteer and atlas of the world-printed in.Amsterdam in 1556, and is six feet high; four feet:wide> and six inches thick. It has a ivall apaco ta itself, and students have to consult it as^ it stands in tha.t position, ; The British. Museum also has some of the world's smallest books. Some are slightly smaller in size than a postage stamp. There was a great vogue for theao tiny books a century back, and they were- carried in the waistcoat pocket,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 11
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95THE BIGGEST BOOK Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 11
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