1920s "The Marvelous Miniature Library" in a Leather Wallet

Item Details

A Marvelous Miniature Library in a leather wallet. This set of miniature books is presented in a brown leather billfold wallet with a snap closure and gilt lettering to the front. The wallet opens to reveal a red lining interior including six pockets with snap closures at the center presented with gilt lettering and ornamentation. The books include Paradise Lost by John Milton, Hamlet and Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Love and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments and The Golden Treasury of English Songs. The books feature red page ends and were published by Minature Dictionary Publishers, Inc. of New York City in the 1920s.

Condition

- leather is scratched and worn; redrot; beds to pages.

Dimensions

Item #

17STA042-188