— The book with the lamest circulation m the world is the Telephone Directory of the City of X-?w York. An edition of 1.000.000 is printed twice every year to meet the demands of tho subscribers to the 450,000 telephones which ure now in use in the city and its immediate suburbs. This hook i? now almost a k<it sqiinrc, has more than 800 paffes, and W i>itrhs over 31b. while its last edition weighed some 2COO tons. Yet until less than 50 years ago, in 1879. the directory consisted of 252 n,amcs printed on a email jard, -....■.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14440, 5 February 1909, Page 5
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