A Quarterly Publication of the Miniature Book Society, Inc., New Series, Number 51 ISSN 0894-5489 July, 2001 © 2001 Miniature Book Society, Inc. Contents Editor: Dean Gattone 2212 South Canterbury Road Wilmington, NC 28403 (910) 343-4376 [email protected]

Art Director: Jill Timm 10610 Morado Circle, # 1021 Austin, TX 78759-5554 (512) 349-0159 13 [email protected]

Miniature Book News: Julian I. Edison, Editor 8 St. Andrews Drive 16 St. Louis, MO 63124 (314) 567-3533 [email protected]

Issued quarterly in January, April, July, and October. Items for publication should be 10 sent to the Editor. Advertising should be sent to the Art Director. Deadline is the 1st of the month prior to issue date. President’s Page ...... Inside Front Cover The Miniature Book Society, Inc is a non- profit organization chartered in 1983 by the State of Ohio. Its purposes are to sustain Editor’s Word ...... 2 an interest in all phases of miniature books; to provide a forum for the exchange Keepsakes Announcement ...... 2 of ideas; and to serve as a clearinghouse for information about miniature books. Meet the Board: Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki ...... 3 www.mbs.org Traveling Exhibit at Geauga West Public Library . . . 3

2000 -2001 Board of Governors MBS World ...... 4 President - Donn W. Sanford Vice-President- Dr. Paul Devenyi MBS Conclave XIX ...... 5 Secretary-Neale Albert Treasurer-Mark Palkovic Miniature Book Workshop in Western Australia . . . . 6 Past President-Arthur A. Keir Governors: Queen Opens Exhibit Featuring Miniature Books . . . 6 Suzanne Pruchnicki Art Resource Librarians Look at MBS Books . . . . . 7 Donna Thomas Patricia Pistner Kitemug Press Conducts Bookmaking Seminar . . . . 8 Jon Mayo News From Europe ...... 9 Membership in the Society is open to all that have an interest in miniature books. A Mexican Bookmaking Adventure ...... 10 USA dues: $30.00 individual/couple, $40 Karoly Andrusko Celebrates His 86th Birthday . . . 13 corporate; Canada dues: $35.00 (US) individual/couple and $45.00(US) corpo- Member News ...... 14 rate; Outside N. America: $45 (US) individ- ual/couple and $55.00(US) corporate. Award Certificates 2001 ...... 14

Membership inquiry and dues payment: New Treasure Trove for Minibook Collectors . . . . 15 Mark Palkovic, 620 Clinton Springs New Books ...... 15 Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-1325, USA (513) 556-1964 (w) Changeabouts ...... 16 (513) 861-3554 (h) (513) 556-3777 (fax) Catalogs ...... 16 [email protected] MBS Book Competition Underway ...... 16 Mail ads and payment (payable to MBS) Miniature Book News ...... 18 to: Jill Timm 10610 Morado Circle #1021 Austin, TX 78759-5554 [email protected] Cover: A map of the travel adventures of Ed Hutchins and Steve Warren through Mexico. Read story on page 10.

MBS Newsletter 1 July 2001 Editor’s Word Meet the Board: Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki

Suzanne was born in Chicago and grew up in Manteno, Illinois Both Jill and I are ing are not just limited to the where her great-grandfather had thrilled to bring you an annual Conclaves usually held in founded a buggy & wagon busi- issue so full of news the USA . ness in 1863 . The business changed about miniature books . We also take care of business with the times and continued for It seems once we put this issue with our enclosed ballot . 90 years on the same spot where the April issue to “bed” With no “hanging chads” we hope Suzanne’s Bronte Press operated . all kinds of information that process will be simple for you . Suzanne cannot remember a came over or desk about time when she did not love books and pictures . Though Manteno whats happening out See you in Indianapolis! had no library, her mother intro- there . duced her to the classics as a child . As Donn has Cornbelt Illinois in the 30’s and explained in his 40’s was suffering the Great Dean Gattone President’s Column, we Depression and there was not welcome our sister publication much interest in the arts or anyone along with Julian Edison to our to teach them . Suzanne and her pages . We hope the two publica- sister, however, became avid and tions continue to complement each compulsive readers and experi- other in terms of reporting to you mented in all of the Arts . Suzanne graduated from the Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki our members and we look forward Keepsakes University of Illinois with majors to your comments in this regard . in Art and English and taught art By the time you read this, the Announcement for over 30 years . In the 1960’s she Traveling Exhibit at Geauga official opening of the Ruth E . earned a Masters of Fine Arts Adomeit collection at the Lilly Part of the fun of attending a degree at the Instituto de Allende West Public Library (Ohio) Library (Indiana University) will Conclave is receiving a packet of in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico . have taken place . In 1977 Suzanne and her sister keepsakes . The West Geauga Sun response” according to Patti Smith I count myself among the founded the Bronte Press which Over the years members have (February 1, 2001) reported on the of the Reference Department . The privileged to have know Ruth and focused on producing illustrated Society’s traveling exhibit appar- article focused on the small sizes and generously contributed time and books on literature and the arts . visited several times with her . Her ence at two branches of the library included an interview with Pat effort to creating memorable keep- The whole family is artistic includ- collection, however, was so exten- sake items . ing Suzanne’s daughter and son, system . First in Chester, Ohio and Pistner who described the great vari- sive and in so many places in Again this year 150 copies of both of whom have appeared in then to the Bainbridge branch, the ety of collecting possible with minia- boxes and drawers etc . in her each keepsake is requested . These Bronte Press books . exhibit drew a “very positive ture books . house that even I am sure I have may be sent when ready to: In 1981 Suzanne’s husband, seen only a small part . While Ruth Carol & Hope Bowie Paul, became a partner in the busi- mounted several exhibitions of her P .O . Box 111 ness and they have lived happily collection during her lifetime, they in a large country house with a Columbia City Indiana 46725- were focused on specific subjects library, gallery archives, the Bronte 0111 within her collection . Visiting the Press and a re-creation of Great- PLEASE NOTE: due to vaca- Lilly or attending Conclave XIX in Grandfather Smith’s office . tions etc . DO NOT use Fed Ex or Besides being on the MBS Indianapolis this September where UPS as there may be times over Board, Suzanne is an active collec- a trip to the Lilly is included as the summer when no one will be tor of illustrated books on the Arts part of the program is really a home to receive such packages . To and literature, a researcher and MUST for any serious collector . make special arrangements please writer of local history, a member of We have news from all over call ahead to home: 219-244-1942 the Dickens Fellowship, the Caxton the world to report . It is hearten- or cell phone 219-609-1992 . e-mail: Club of Chicago, AND a Great ing to see that miniature book Books leader for 38 years . cabowie@netusal .net . activities beyond personal collect-

July 2001 2 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 3 July 2001 MBS World MBS Conclave XIX Indianapolis, Indiana August 31-September 3, 2001

The 2001 Conclave will open In our constant search which included an original Friday 31 August with a Board for materials about minia- drawing by Joan Miro . meeting, with Registration and a ture books we are some- Some months later Marcus Hospitality Suite during the after- times led to believe that was in France and Maeght noon . Following a reception with we’ve just about seen it all . returned the promised hos- a cash bar, the Welcome Dinner Then along comes a sur- pitality . The cuisine was will take place in the evening . prise that is old but still new delightful, but even more to us . One such book is of a surprise was that Saturday 1 September includes: MINIATURES prepared by instead of dessert, Marcus the Cooper-Hewitt Museum was served the Miro book •Continental breakfast for the Smithsonian under the dome of a serv- •Business Meeting Illustrated Library of ing dish . •Bus trip to Indiana Antiques series, 1983 . The Bindings often deter- University's Fine Arts Plaza . reference here is not to art mine whether a prospec- The events of the day will miniatures, but to every tive buyer of a miniature include Tours of the Lilly Library other kind of miniature such book makes that book and a major exhibition of its min- as houses and rooms, furni- affordable . An example iature books including books from ture, silver, pottery, porce- would be Takuboku the Ruth E . Adomeit Collection . lain, and glass . This was Ishikawa’s A HANDFUL Indianapolis skyline downtown. beautifully illustrated by OF SAND (in Japanese), 1 Two sets of tours of the Pat Pisner as she showed us 1/3 X 1 1/8 inches, 1982 . It Library will alternate with Fine Bonnie Stahlecker will present in the April issue of the MBS is bound in full creamy Arts Librarian B .J . Irvine's presen- an explanation and demonstration Monday 3 September NEWSLETTER . But the big- leather with a ruby on the tation on the topic of Artist's of the mechanics behind the mov- gest surprise of all to me front cover and a seven- books . able modules of pop-ups . After a continental breakfast, was the chapter on minia- color cloisonne decoration Donn Sanford will make a those who sign up will be taken to which Karen Dawson found ture books, eighteen pages on the slipcase . The price presentation on collecting the out- At mid-day, a box lunch will Conner Prairie, an open-air living important enough to make the of everything one needs to know then was $250 .00 . Another exam- put of James Lamar Weygand, be served on the Art Museum history museum located in Fishers subject of a miniature book . But about miniature books, with ple is Yasunari Kawabata’s IZU- proprietor of the Press of the plaza . Indiana . It offers the opportunity E .P .Dutton refused permission to excellent illustrations to add fur- DANCER . The regular edition of Indiana Kid . After returning to Indianapolis to explore the lives and times of reprint it . When Karen sent them ther credence . Additional sugges- 200 copies, 1 1/8 X 1 1/8 inches there will be time for the Swap early 19th-century settlers in the a royalty check for $50 .00, they tions to collectors of miniature (Japanese text), is bound in calf, Meet and dinner on your own in Old Northwest Territory, based readily accepted . Then with the books are found in the final chap- with a single copy priced at Indianapolis before the Annual upon the Indiana experience . It help of Muir Dawson, another ter no . 7 . This copy of $65 .00 . But a separately bound Book Auction . features a modern Museum Center, miniature book was born—1 7/8 MINIATURES is being donated to edition with 5-color leather inlay and four historic areas: the 1836 X 1 1/2 inches . (1963) . the auction of the Indianapolis on the cover and with a 24k gold Sunday 2 September includes: village Prarietown, the 1823 A story I heard several times Conclave for some lucky person metal recalling the author’s Nobel William and Elizabeth Conner has all the trappings of a legend . to share the wealth . Prize (1968) was limited to only After a continental breakfast, Home, the Pioneer Adventure This story surfaced again in a In rereading my personal dia- 44 copies and each sold for the annual Book Fair will be open Area, and the new Lenape Camp 1985 issue of CONNOISSEUR ries for 1977, I noted that I had $295 .00 . This story of a man’s to members only in the morning, & McKinnen's Trading Post . See magazine . Stanley Marcus, the purchased the microform list of infatuation with a dancer was and after closing for lunch, be their website:http://www .conner- internationally famous half of miniature books in the Library of originally published in 1923 . open to the general public in the prairie .org/ Neiman-Marcus department store Congress and had paid $47 00. . Kawabata committed suicide in afternoon . This will also be an The Conclave Hotel is The fame, was entertaining the distin- Converting the list to a more read- 1973 . opportunity to explore the shop- Westin, 50 South Capital Avenue, guished art dealer Aime Maeght able venue took over 2000 catalog —-Val Poska ping and cultural facilities avail- Indianapolis, IN 46204 with a tour of his impressive col- cards . It would be interesting to able in Indianapolis . 317-262-8100 FAX317-231- lection of miniature books . The see what has happened in the The evening will begin with a 3928 e-mail: india@westin .com art dealer in turn stated that the interim of a quarter of a century . reception with cash bar, followed Room rates: $99 Single, $99 next time Marcus came to France, A .A . Milne wrote a poem by the Annual Banquet and dinner Double, $99 Suite, $119 Triple, $119 he would show him the one and called “The King’s Breakfast” Some of the books in the Lilly Library. speaker . Quad . Be sure to give the confer- only miniature he possessed, July 2001 4 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 5 July 2001 Miniature Book Workshop in Western Australia Art Resource Librarians Look at MBS Books

In February 2001, bookbinders books as well as pass on details of much space so travels well . In late March 2001, over 600 librarian’s comments, we learned many huge displays of computer and those interested in the craft some of the fascinating work of Members of the local librarians gathered for the annual something from them as well . We software for librarians . were privileged to be able to attend Alembic Press . No sooner said Bookbinders’ Guild and others conference of the Art Resource found out about their varied collec- We had to be alert and in a a workshop conducted by UK than done . Geoff contacted his came along to the workshop and Librarians International Society tions, their preferences for fine salesperson mood from early in the printer, binder and publisher Claire local arts centre to act as hosts and learnt how to lay out a publication, (ARLIS) . A number of Miniature press work, artists’ books, and/or morning until late in the evening on Bolton . set about finding out how many decide on the type of binding and Book Society publishers were there art reference books . For instance, some days! We were happy to be Claire, who with her husband others would be interested . The then actually try out a number of to show their fine books in the Peter had a long conversation with near each other in the hall so that David runs Alembic Press in upshot was that in early February different methods . At the end of exhibit hall of the conference . I was Marcia Reed, the Special Collections we could visit and check out each Oxford, UK, was in Western some sixteen people gathered for 6 the day they all went home with one of them, encouraged to attend Librarian at the Getty Museum, others’ latest books . Australia to visit her three or four miniature by Sandra Still . Sandra, who is an about that institution’s interest in The conference went on for daughter in the South books constructed dur- MBS/ARLIS member and librarian books which are original art by almost a week, and the activities West of the State . The ing the workshop . Local at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) book artists . included a visit to the Getty Alembic Press lives in a paper conservator and has attended the conference for Museum . The fantastic architecture 13th century barn and professional bookbinder years and thought if Good Book captured my attention, the gardens has lots and lots of Douglas Firth went Press was present, it would expose and pools relaxed others, and I goodies that Geoff home ecstatic . A binder us to a new and appreciative audi- think there was some drooling in wishes he had but has- with some thirty years ence and potential market . She was the state-of-the-art conservation nít and makes him experience he was heard right! bindery which was open especially green with envy . The to comment at one point Claire and David Bolton of for our conference . There was a presses suffer from bat “I would have never Alembic Press, Mel Kavin of Kater- lively auction on one of the last poo and other drop- have thought of doing it Crafts Bookbinders, Jan Kellett of nights there . Informative lectures pings from the ceiling of the barn, hours of intricate and intriguing that way” . De Walden Press, and Jill Timm of and workshops were held all week . all of which probably are causing work making a variety of minia- At the end of the day they Mystical Places Press came from far I tried to understand the mind of David’s current headaches with his ture books . were all asking Claire if her daugh- and near to mingle with the librar- Jan Kellett and Claire Bolton. the librarian in the workshop they caster . Claire had packed in her suit- ter was going to stay in Western Back in October 2000, Geoff case some samples of the type of Australia and when would Claire Moor, a West Australian collector work undertaken at the Press, both be coming out again on a visit . of old printing equipment, was full size and miniature books, Claire promised that if she was bemoaning on the letterpress dis- showing a variety of binding styles, able to come again she would be cussion list, a list of people around not the least of which was a metre more than willing to run more the world interested in the now long alphabet printed from large workshops . Talk was that maybe a almost defunct art of letterpress wooden type . She also brought lots workshop of a couple of sessions printing, that there were no oppor- of very small pieces of paper, tools could be held with participants tunities for workshops in his neck and thread, for workshop partici- designing, printing and binding of the woods . pants to utilise . The advantage of their very own book . Claire offered to conduct a running a miniature book work- We live in hope . workshop in binding miniature shop being that it does not take up ––Geoff Moor David and Claire Bolton. Jill Timm and Donna and Peter Thomas. Mel Kavin. ians . We talked to them about the The exhibit hall had many dif- attended about “Buying Artists’ Queen Opens Exhibit Featuring Miniatures value of collecting our books for the ferent displays and books for sale . Books”, and another called purposes of having a well rounded Mel Kavin displayed his successful “Developing Your Collection” . collection . We spoke eloquently of miniature book, “You Can Judge a We all had the promotional Martin Luther, and the first book HRM Queen Elizabeth II of Henry VIII’s “Assertio Septem the innovations in structure and the Book By It’s Cover”, and also pamphlet for the MBS at our tables . written and put into print by an opened an exhibit of some of the Sacramentorum”, his attack on aesthetic merits of our miniatures . advised on kinds of restoration that Many had not heard of the Society English King . world’s rarest books at Buckingham We convinced even the most skep- Kater-Crafts performs . There were before, and I’m hoping that we Miniature books are repre- Palace, London this past March . tical of the vitality of the artists’ booksellers for art reference books, might have turned on a light for sented mainly through the mini- The books have been brought from book . We did add some names to dealers of large numbers of artist’s some to join us . It was a bonus that tures written by famous authors for the royal collections at Windsor the list of mini-book lovers and books, and even a women’s sewing Jill Timm was there to give first Queen Mary’s dolls’ house . These Castle and span royal collecting owners, even if some only paid collective selling flashy hats and hand information about the MBS include G .K . Chesterton and the from Henry VIII’s time . The most mini-sums of money for Claire coats evidently trying to liven up a NEWSLETTER . Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges . splendid is said to be “Mainz Bolton’s blank doll house books . librarian’s wardrobe! I’m sure We left exhausted, but hope- The whole event is part of the Psalter” published in 1457 . It is the (Claire and David also showed many were impressed by the fine fully with a few more pennies in our Queen’s “theme days” , in this case most important printed book in the their new book of type specimens, workmanship in Jan Kellett’s little pockets, a few books left behind to promote the British publishing Royal Library’s vast collection . well done!) books, but she was disappointed in destined for auspicious collections, industry . Other books include a signed copy Listening carefully to the art the masses of people headed for the and with hope for a strengthened July 2001 6 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 7 April 2001 News from Europe Kitemug Press Conducts Bookmaking Seminar A Truly International Gathering Back in the fall of 2000, push the needle through the cen- Jeanette and I went to Dubuque, ter hole from the inside; then go to A meeting of miniature book Dr . Martin Znidersic, from in a special format with a beautiful Iowa for a weekend to help the bottom hole and push the enthusiasts took place in Berlin Slovenia, spoke next on “Collecting design and outfit . It only becomes a Jeanette’s sister Eleanor and her needle back inside; then to the top between May 18th and 20th . It was Miniature Books - International curiosity when it is not readable” . Husband celebrate their 25th wed- hole and outside again . Finally organized by the Circle of Friends Experiences” He took us through Food for thought? ding anniversary . It turned out to push the needle back in through of Miniature Books, Berlin, a group the history of miniature books from Following a break for lunch, be a family reunion . Because many the center hole, tie the thread of very enthusiastic miniature book the very earliest times to the pres- tables were set up for the book fair . children were to be there we together and trim it off . Viola! A collectors . ent day, and then spoke about his Twenty- four different sellers were planned to keep them occupied . Book! The whole event was expertly personal experiences of collecting, present, and a wide variety of books My contribution was to bring Now the students were given co-ordinated by Angelika Jaeck, who his membership of the MBS, and on sale, from beautifully made doll small pieces of paper for book- a lesson in tedium . We folded 300 so many people know from our MBS the interesting people he has met house sized books, to the exquisite making . The kids made accordion sheets and 100 covers of “The Conclaves . She ensured that all the during his many years as a collec- reproductions of medieval manu- fold books and center stapled Goldfish” book . Then the pages visitors from outside Germany were tor . scripts by Faksimile Verlag Luzern . books . were collated and assembled with welcomed, arranged accommoda- Following this Dr . Siegfried One book was specially produced Eleanor promised one of the the covers . Again sewing began . tion, and gave generously of her Hempel spoke about miniature for the event by Siegfried Spengler, girls that she would bring her to which were pasted into card cov- Complaints began to mount about time to ensure everything went books in past and present, and containing pictures of the individu- Spartanburg so she could learn ers . Then a tricky little exercise of how much time and work was smoothly . al letters on the more about bookmaking . And so it making a eight-page book out of a involved . I reminded everyone The event beautiful bronze came to pass that our bookmaking single sheet of paper . We also that great things were made slow- began on Friday doors of the seminar activities began . made books in the Asian style ly and that patience was a virtue . 18th with an eve- Stadtbibliothek . This was the start of a three- using Japanese paper, decorated (many growns) . ning reception Each panel is of a day adventure that started out paper covers, and three hole exter- The final project was the cre- and dinner host- different version of with the kids making simple shal- nal sewing . So we moved on to ation of a 40-page, signature sewn ed by the the letter ‘a’ from low boxes, with stapled corners, to bone folding several sheets to cre- book with colored endpapers, Freundeskreis earliest representa- hold the stuff they would be mak- ate a little book to be sewn into with boards covered in the bind- Miniaturbuch tions to the most ing . Then they edge stapled ten slightly larger covers . These were ing cloth of their choice . The books Berlin . A short modern style . sheets of 5 .5” X 8 .5” paper between opened up to the center, placed in wer held flat with the weight speech by Prof . Dr . During the cardboard covers . These would a jig, and punched through in boxes made on day one . These lit- Heinz Schmidt, event the Louis serve as their journals for noting three places with an awl . Needles tle books became the “apprentice’s President of the Wolfgang Bondy down what they had done . Then were threaded . The thread coated masterpieces” . FMB welcomed the European Travelling we made 2 .5 X 3 inch cardboard with bee’s wax which took the A farewell dinner party for guests from outside Exhibition was on boxes with lids and filled them curl out of the thread and lubri- eight became the occasion for a Germany, (people Left: Ian Mcdonald talking to Hubert Silvain. Right: Stephen Byrne and display, together with scrap type . The boxes would cated it for the sewing process . graduation ceremony . We had cre- from seven differ- Angelika Jaeck. with a small collec- be used later to weigh down items Finally the books were sewn - ated two-color certificates printed ent nations) and tion of very interest- they made . on gray parchment then began an evening of renewing about the Offizin Anderson Nexö, ing books, including an original clay On the following paper . Everyone was acquaintances and making new the enterprise in the former German tablet loaned by the Near Eastern days we made little presented with a friends, as well as a bit of surrepti- Democratic Republic (GDR) where Antique Museum . books that had two “Certificate of tious book trading in a relatively most of the miniature books pub- After the book fair a group met punched holes and were Participation” with their quiet corner . A very enjoyable time lished in the GDR were produced . to have dinner together and con- held together with a names calligraphically was had by all . He spoke about his involvement in tinue where we left off the evening loop of string . This type inscribed and signed by Saturday 19th began at the the company, both as director and before . Dr . Schmidt proposed that of book could be used as the proprietor of the Stadtbibliothek with a series of as designer of many miniature this should be the first of many a daily reminder book to Kitemaug Press, grant- talks . First, Ian Macdonald, of the books, - some of which had print such events, and that a group be hang on a bulletin board ing them “all rights and Gleniffer Press in Scotland, gave an runs of well over 10,000 . As non- organized to plan for another in the or doorknob . We made privileges appertaining illustrated talk about miniature German speaking guests, we were future . little books of single thereto” and encour- books, his press and his books . As provided with a précis of his Many thanks to all those in the sheets edge stapled into aged them to continue Ian’s German is very limited he speech, at the end of which was a Freundeskreis Miniaturbuch Berlin card covers . Then books their studies of the book spoke in English and Angelika gave quote from one of Dr . Hempel’s who made us all feel so welcome, of folded sheets center arts . What fun we had! a translation . The talk was very writings, “In past or present, the and in particular to Angelika for stapled into card covers . —Frank Anderson well received, and the use of slides miniature book was never a vogue her excellent management of the Accordion fold books of Frank J. Anderson, Alyssa Tope and Catherine King on the for illustration purposes enhanced phase or a toy, never a bibliophile event . card stock . Accordion last day of seminar with the finished signature sewn hand what was a very interesting and escapade or a curiosity . It always —Stephen T . Byrne fold books of paper bound book the kids made. entertaining speech . was and still is today a usable book

April 2001 8 MBS Newsletter April 2001 9 MBS Newsletter A Mexican Bookmaking Adventure

When my spouse, in the company of paper together . they contained nothing but super- amazing discovery . After silk and coffee . It is the Steve Warren, and I images . Sacrifice victims Pre-Columbian cultures did stitions and falsehoods about the 450 years of suppression, first book written, illus- decided to make an were dressed in paper not develop printing as we know Devil, we burned them all, which amatl paper was still trated, printed, bound extended visit to outfits, blood was dripped it, but they came close . They man- the Indians felt most deeply and being made in a remote and published by the Mexico, I had three on paper and offered to ufactured ceramic and stone print- over which they showed much Indian village and it was Mayan people in 1,000 goals: to learn more about the the gods, and it was used to tell ing stamps that were used to deco- sorrow .” (Landa 1864, p 44) . still being used for secret, years . ancient tradition of paper and fortunes . Over time the culture of rate the human body, cloth, leather, Imagine what our culture would native rituals . Today The workshop also bookmaking in Mexico, to meet Meso America became, as one wax, bark paper and ceramic pots . be like today if the same destruc- Mexico has embraced its pre-His- produces a literary magazine to and work with contemporary writer described it, “the paper By the time the Spanish tion had visited the Egyptian or panic heritage and has been promote and preserve the indige- Mexican book and paper artists, world of the Aztecs” (Von Hagen, arrived in 1519 forty-two towns Roman civilizations . Today, only enriched by the colors, music, nous culture of southern Mexico and finally, to create new books 1999 (1944) , p 77) . were producing paper, and in just seventeen pre-Hispanic codices designs, crafts and techniques of an and Guatemala . In 1996, to cele- influenced by the traditions, tech- Paper was also used for mak- two of them alone, 480,000 sheets are known to have survived . ancient period . niques and materials found on our ing books, mostly in the form of a of paper were collected every year Later missionaries realized In the southern Mexican state travels . It’s not possible to convey long sheet of bark paper folded in the form of tribute . The libraries the magnitude of the destruction of Chiapas, we made contact with everything that was learned or back and forth in accordion folds in Texcoco, Cholulu and the Aztec and tried to recover and record Taller Lenateros (The Woodlanders experienced in this short piece, but to make a codex that was then capital, Tenochtitlan, contained what they could of indigenous Workshop), a paper and book coop- let me give a few examples of how thousands of priceless, irreplace- beliefs, knowledge and practices . erative started twenty five years our Mexico adventure proved to able volumes . Much of what is known about the ago by the Mexican poet, Ambar be a success in every way . Then the Spanish arrived, and Aztecs is thanks to the multi-vol- soon afterwards an army of ume “History of the Things of A Rich Tradition of Catholic missionaries . They pro- New Spain” (1575-1580) by Fray Making Paper and Books . ceeded to stamp out the indige- Bernardino de Sahagun . But the nous culture and forcibly replace it damage was done . With the con- Few cultures, I was to learn, with Catholicism . In 1529 Fray quest of the tribes of Mexico and revered and used paper like the Juan de Zumarraga, the bishop of the forced imposition of pre-Columbian cities in Meso Mexico, ordered the Aztec libraries Christianity the beautiful codices Ambar Past photo by America . Starting some time brought to the square of Tlatelolco were no longer made and the art of Molding paper for cover of conjuring around the sixth century native where every book found was amatl papermaking seemed to dis- book at Taller Lenateros. artisans created a smooth, flat reduced to ashes . Fray Diego de appear entirely . paper out of the inner bark of the Landa searched out the Mayan brate peace coming to Guatemala amatl tree (a member of the Ficus books and in 1549 he wrote, The Book and Paper Arts after 30 years of war, the magazine family) . It was similar in many “Among the Maya we found a in Mexico Today . removed all constraints and pro- ways to papyrus, from which great number of books written Ambar Past photo by duced an issue that is a triumph of paper gets its name . This amatl or with their characters, and because So, with this incredible history Cattail stems being delivered to Taller literature, art, design and paper bark paper was used for keeping of paper and book making, what is Lenateros. engineering . Twenty people need- records, decorating sacred statues, the state of the art in Mexico today? ed eight months to print all the the dead were sent to the afterlife Arms decorated with printing stamps I’m happy to report that while pieces which are offset printed as seen in the Codex Chalchihuitzin paper and book arts are not as Past . Using the simplest materials with 150 different silkscreen Vazquez. widespread as they are in the and learning by experimenting, the impressions added . It took two United States, they are firmly workshop produces handmade and a half years to assemble the decorated with brightly colored established and a rich variety of paper, prints and artist books and edition of 1,000 copies . Each copy hieroglyphs packed with meaning . handmade papers, prints and art- now supports upward of 150 is made up of 78 pieces and is basi- The Mayas, Toltecs, Mixtecs, ist books are being produced . workers from about 30 families . cally a concertina of 115 pages . Zapotecs and Aztecs are known to In truth, the native beliefs One major project resulted in a But there are also decorated cov- have made books . They recorded were never totally eradicated . The volume of conjuring spells and ers, envelopes with letters and history, genealogies, poetry, songs, best that the Catholic church could drinking songs by Mayan women . telegrams inside, fold-out pages, agricultural calendars, laws, achieve was a curious meld of offi- The finished volume measures 10” overlays, tipped-in artwork, books instructions for interpreting the cial doctrine and native beliefs not square, has 200 pages, 50 original within books, a full-size news- codices, astronomical observations found any where else . silkscreened illustrations by sheet, postcard enclosures, a sepa- and, most of all, texts for under- In 1900 the American anthro- Tzotzil and Tzeltal women, and a rate English translation booklet The royal couple in their wedding bed standing the complex religious Aztec priest wearing elaborate paper pologist, Frederick Starr, made an three-dimensional cover cast from and many other surprises . The as seen in the Codex Nuttell. structure that held their culture costume and adornments. recycled cardboard boxes, corn entire construction is wrapped July 2001 10 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 11 July 2001 with a string threaded through a carved gourd (imagine carving 1,000 gourds!) . Karoly Andrusko Celebrates His 86th Birthday We were fortunate to have a visit from Ambar when we were miniatures is titled “Kubikasi”, settled in Oaxaca . We made books Karoly Andrusko has been the town of Senta in Vojvodina measuring 9X8mm with woodcuts and swapped stories under the called “the greatest miniature (Yugoslavia) where he was born in depicting his “labor by the cube” bougainvillaea on the patio . We book artist” by the late Louis W . 1915 . Initially a printer and type- on 28 leaves . received a bonus visit from Ambar Bondy of London, whom most of setter by profession, economic cir- Although acquainted with the when she showed up with the us have known as an expert on cumstances have also caused him graphic arts through his work as a 20-bus caravan of Zapatistas on miniature books during his life- to hire out as a “kubikas” or work- printer, he did not start creating their way to confront the Mexican time . Andrusko certainly holds er who digs earth and is paid by until relatively late in life at age 52 . legislature over their treatment of the record by creating over 220 the cubic meter . To commemorate In the beginning he engraved lino indigenous people . We decided to miniature books in thirty years . this one of his earliest and smallest cuts, and soon after, also mastered treat her bus to lunch the next day the woodcut technique . He has and stayed up late making 40 tuna not worked in schools or academia

and egg salad sandwiches, brown- photo by Ed Hutchins but has remained an original artist . ies, cookies and packing in chips, The entire edition of "Taco de Ojo" (Easy on the Eye) by Ed Hutchins. In addition to the unbelievable apples and fruit punch . number of graphics, Andrusko’s We were fortunate to meet work also includes oils, watercol- many artists involved in making paper and artist books . problems in English alphabet ors and pastels . Most of his inspi- books on our travels . We met a books have many words in ration is taken from the world publisher in Guadalajara who has How Mexican Culture Spanish . What I came to find out, around him where he seems to enlisted Mexico’s top artists to cre- Influenced My Artist Books however, is that there are no native know how to detect events and the ate books with movable and some- Spanish words that start with “K” and “W .” Kilo and whiskey are pulse and rhythm of life . An times sculptural elements . And, as When we arrived in Mexico, used, but they are imports . This extraordinary modest, silent and a sign of change for conservative Steve and I each carried backpack was typical of the many book proj- tranquil person, he is never with- Mexico, the publisher is a dynam- and duffle bag with everything we ects that followed . Some things out his sketchbook where he ic, articulate woman . In a small would need for one year . The only that I thought would be problems, quickly sketches his impressions village outside of Oaxaca we met bookmaking tool I brought was a turned out to be remarkably easy . for later transferring to wood or Alberto Valenzuela at Papel bone folder . Within a week of But sometimes simple things lino . Oaxaca, a workshop for producing arriving in Mexico I had started on turned out to be very complicated . Andrusko’s first miniature beautiful, thin, strong sheets of my first artist book, “Viva Mexico .” In Guanajuato I came across a book titled “Senta” was issued in handmade paper . He and the It is an alphabet book and it helped display of the pre-Columbian members of his cooperative have me develop my Spanish vocabu- continued on page 17 printing stamps mentioned above . created inventive machinery for lary and encouraged me out on the I was struck by how artisans from beating and stamping the fibers . street and interact with businesses centuries past were able to create in Cuernavaca . I thought it would patterns and designs that still be a simple project since the letters These books are personal cre- “Q,” “X” and “Z” that cause such continued on page 17 ations containing more than 6,500 original miniature wood and lino- cuts which the artist created him- self . His books are distinctive as there is no text—only his wonder- ful miniature graphics . Andrusko has been very popular among Miniature Book collectors in the United States and his titles are

photo by Ed Hutchins found in old Dawson and Bondy A bookmaking class by Ed Hutchins at catalogs, as well as current cata- Papel Oaxaca in San Augustin Etla. logs by Bradbury and Tuttle Books . In Colima I taught a university Besides creating these unique class of photography students graphics for his books, the artist eager to learn new ways of pre- also was responsible for binding senting their work . All over them as well, mostly in simple Mexico we found an interest in photo by Steve Warren leatherette . and an enthusiasm for handmade Ed Hutchins working on covers for "Toro" in hotel room in Tonala. Karoly Andrusko still lives in

July 2001 12 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 13 July 2001 Member News New Treasure Trove for New Books Minibook Collectors Jarmila and Jan Sobota are in Neale Albert hosted an infor- Robert C . Bradbury, Antique charge of organizing and design- mal MBS meeting in London in Joan Knoertzer has been busy United States Miniature Books, ing the Museum of Design early May in conjunction with the giving an hour long presentation Bob Bradbury has done it This new compendium neces- 1690-1900 . Bindings . The Museum will con- London Dollshouse Festival . MBS on the history, formats and variet- again! I considered his first book sarily includes titles of commer- Hardcover . illus . sist of a permanent exhibition of members attending were Neal, ies of miniature books . Using her on miniatures to be a monumental cial houses . It is most fortunate dust jacket 357p . historical bookbinding machines Michael Garbett, Jan Kellett, own collection as demonstration accomplishment; his just-released that a large proportion of American The and their resultant works . The Stephen Byrne and Tim Sheppard . items, Joan reports this really helps new effort is a true gem, and one miniatures produced before 1901 Microbibliophile, city of Loket, Czech Republic, will Guests included Tine Krijnen- listeners to see and feel real minia- serious collectors can ill afford to are in the collections of the North Clarenton, employ a guide for tourists . The Bruin, a Dutch miniature book ture books - in many cases for the leave out of their collections . American Antiquarian Society, VT . 2001 (1,000 budget for the Museum is not maker who was exhibiting, and first time . In addition to the pre- “Antique United States Worcester, Mass (Bob’s home- copies) . huge and any help and encour- the General Counsel of Thames sentation before The Book Club of Miniature Books, 1690-1900” by town), and the Lilly Library in agement from members would be and Hudson Publishing Co . Detroit, Joan prepared and served Robert C . Bradbury, is published Bloomington, Indiana, where gratefully appreciated . a miniature dinner! From baby by The Microbibliophile . Jon Ruth Adomeit’s collection now "Little Bible Board Books" Jill Timm received a grant spinach to small crawfish for lob- Mayo, who also published Bob’s resides . color illus . set slip case for 10 David Howell, a new MBS from a private foundation to sters, tiny shrimp filled croissants first book, has done us all a good 1,625 miniature books from book series . Individual titles: member, joined not because he is attend the Book and Paper and cubed beef bourguigonne, turn for a second time . more than 300 publishers are Daniel, Noah's a collector, but rather because he Intensive, a 2 week workshop for over 40 different foods were pre- included in this new book . One of Ark, Easter is a designer/inventor/manufac- professional book arts people . sented in miniature . the most amazing features is the Miracle, turer of etched metal products for This year it was held in the moun- amount of data about the publish- Joseph's Coat, museum stores and he felt mak- tains outside of Salt Lake City . She ers . Thanks to a world of informa- Miracles, ing exquisite etched metal book took 3 exciting and inspiring class- tion mined from the files of the David & covers may be of interest to MBS es . After the workshop she took AAS, Bob has been able to make Goliath, collectors . He is looking for a off for Yellowstone . . again . Watch available to us more about these Samaritan, partner(s) for such a venture and for a book titled “Yellowstone individuals and firms than has Moses, members interested are encour- Spring” . Award ever, I venture to say, been known Children, and aged to contact him . editors note: to collectors before . Jonah . Publisher's Clearing unfortunately the latest yearbook Peter and Donna Thomas will Publishers and their books House, Port Washington, NY . lists David as "Daniel" Howell, be having a show of their work at Certificates are listed chronologically in the 2001? but all the rest of the entry is cor- the Santa Cruz Museum of Art body of this book; and an index of rect . and History, Santa Cruz, CA ., 2001 authors, titles, and publishers "The August 11-Oct 28, 2001 . They will delights my librarian’s soul . Goldfish" . Frank and Jeanette Anderson show both large and small books Whatever scrap of knowledge you Kitemaug Press, report they are "transmogrifying with the opening reception being Those wishing to be recog- may have about any American Spartanburg, SC into the 21st Century" by buying a held August 24th . For informa- nized for their contributions to the miniature published before 1901 2001 . (100 cop- computer and establishing an tion contact the Museum at 831- development, love, and knowl- leads you immediately to more ies) . e-mail address . 429-1964 . edge of miniature books need to information about this early gem send documentation in the form of and its maker than we have ever The MBS traveling exhibit Gabrielle Fox has been award- newspaper articles, photographs heretofore had at our fingertips . The Old Stile Press . "Psalms was in the library at Columbia ed a Helm Fellowship grant by the of exhibits etc . to: One of the nicest things about I cannot recommend too 150 & 23", Llandogo, College in Columbia, SC from Lilly Library, Indiana University a collection like mine has been its strongly that you acquire this new Monmouthshire, UK . 2001 . March 4-April 21st . Frank to research miniature books in the Suzanne Pruchniki magnetic attraction for Bob and book . While you are about it, if Anderson was asked to speak Ruth E . Adomeit Collection . 6712N 4180W his lovely wife Sandy . Eloise and I you didn’t get the first one, by all The Old Stile Press . "Be Still - about miniatures at a meeting Bourbonnais, IL 60914 have had the joy of their company means order it as well, before they Haiku from the Valley of the April 16th were he also passed Margaret Challenger took deadline: August 1, 2001 for lots of days in New Britain, are all gone . Then, when you find Wye", Llandogo, Monmouthshire, out MBS membership brochures . part in Paper Trail at Harbourfront, and look forward to many more things in your collection that are UK . 2001 . Toronto, Canada March 11th . Certificates will be awarded such visits . not in either listing, you can boast Julian Edison will be a guest “The room was full of paper art- at the Miniature Book Grand Bob’s first book focused on about having the rarest of the rare Jill Timm, speaker at the "official" opening of ists of all kinds,” Margaret writes Conclave, Indianapolis, Indiana individual twentieth century pub- — books that are not in either “Bright the Ruth E . Adomeit Collection at “from calligraphy and origami to this coming September . lishers of miniatures, many of Bradbury! Wings”, the Lilly Library, Indiana University me and miniature books .”While whom were alive to furnish infor- — Robert E . Massmann Mystical June 21st . Members will get to see Margaret did not have any MBS mation about themselves and their Places Press, the exhibit at the Conclave in flyers on hand, she did display the books . He visited dozens of them, Austin, TX September . Newsletter, catalogs, and the and corresponded with hundreds 2001 ( 35 cop- Microbibliophile . more . ies) .

July 2001 14 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 15 July 2001 Mexican Adventure MBS Changeabouts MBS 2001 Book Competition continued from page 12 tion of handmade amate (bark) bus and in our hotel rooms . I fin- New Members Alden F . Jacobs engage the viewer today . I paper made by her studio in ished the last copy at 11 p .m . the 975 Grace Drive Judging Underway returned to my studio (the table in Chiapas . I cut and folded the night before we crossed into Toms River, NJ 08753 our tiny kitchen!) and made my paper into concertina strips that fit Arizona . Jeannette Clark Thirty-eight books were home: 732-349-6134 own designs inspired by their inside a “Toro” brand matchbox . I 655 Doyle Lane received for the Miniature Book work . These patterns were letter- started carving printing stamps All This and Much More . Dixon, CA 95620 Society 2001 Book Competition this press printed on small cards that from erasers found at the corner Yaroslav N . Kostyuk home: 707-678-0402 year . The competition was open to slip into place in a miniature variety store . For the text I used a This is just a sampler of the e-mail: jclark@dcn .davis .ca .us 123, 3/1 Borisovski Proezd all publishers, printers, designers, album . Inside the front and back little set of changeable rubber type many bookmaking adventures that Moscow, 115563 and binders of miniature books covers is background information that I had found in Queretaro . It we had in Mexico . It doesn’t do jus- RUSSIA who published the entry during in Spanish and English . The whole turned out that the book had many tice to the many friends we made, Jean Day the past two years . Jean Day Miniatures home: 7-095-390-3227 structure is held together with a tiny parts that were printed, cut the music we heard, the history we My wonderful committee has cross-stitch binding inspired by out and glued into place . There is learned, the tastes we experienced or 2295 Lincoln mobile: 7-095-725-0605 fax: 7-095-721-3408 made great progress . All of the Keith Smith . even a swinging cape for the bull . the vistas we encountered . Both of Kennett Square, PA 19348 catalog descriptions have been e-mail: yaroslav@mtu .ru Another book I worked on I had no sooner gotten started on us are anxious to get back to work written, the books are being photo- in Mexico, “Toro,” is also a minia- the edition of 24 copies than it was and start saving money so we can do graphed, and the introduction ture book . When Ambar visited this again . For a long time to come Changeabouts Kazushige Onuma time for us to start heading for the written . It is now up to the judges us in Oaxaca she left a nice selec- border . As a result, most of the we will be looking back and re- liv- e-mail: lilliput@xa3 .so-net .ne .jp to make their decision . work on the book was done on the ing the happy memories of our EDITORS NOTE: some errors Distinguished Book Awards are Mexican adventure . have been reported regarding the Sonya A . Stall presented at the Society's Conclave, Andrusko ­––Edward H . Hutchins 2 Claire Pass this year in Indianapolis, Indiana Yearbook 2001 . Please use this in September where all of the books continued from page 13 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-7506 Senta and the countryside of Bibliography list to update your yearbook will be on display as well . 1971 . The 29 woodcuts chronicle Vojvodina, to Beograd and ---Jim DeLancey Christensen, Bodil, and Samuel Marit, Frank J . Anderson Guus & Luce Thurkow life in his home town . This book Slovenia, the artist used what he Witchcraft and Pre-Columbian Paper, 1971, e-mail: kitemaugpresswhq@msn . Leonardo da Vinciplein 32 measures 42X33mm and has been saw while traveling to make small 1988, 968- 414-011-8, in Spanish and English, 5223 DR 'S-Hertogenbosch followed by 220 different titles . books . He also traveled abroad, Ediciones Euroamericanas . com Coe, Michael D ., Breaking the Maya Netherlands The smallest, “A kapa” which often to Hungary, Europe as well means “The hoe” in Hungarian, as America . He created a five- Code, 1992, 0-500-27721-4, Thames and Randy Auman e-mail: cath .thurkow@planet .nl Hudson . measures 5X5mm . It was issued book series about America called Diaz, Gisele, and Alan Rodgers, The 101 West 55th Street Apt 7G in 1974 and has 20 leaves with “Atlantic”, “New York”, “United Adell Venus Codex Borgia, 1993, 0-486-27569-8, Dover New York, NY 10019 original woodcuts depicting work- Nations”, “Toronto”, and Publications . home: 847-675-0052 ing with a hoe . “Canadian Lakes” (1976) . Enciso, Jorge, Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico, 1947, 1953, 0-486-20084-1, Dover Pat Baldwin Many in the outside world Sometimes Andrusko would Publications . 1505 Buckskin Drive know Andrusko as a creator of use photographs and slides from Gonzalbo, Pablo Escalante, Los codices, Santa Maria, CA 93454 bookplates, there being probably other authors to create his books . 1998, 970-18-0243-8, in Spanish, Tercer Milenio .Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e e-mail address: patbooks@mind- no other artist who has cut so A five-book series were made from many of them . He compiled many photos of the Yugoslav explorer/ Historia (INAH), Los codices de Mexico, spring .com Catalogs 1979, in Spanish, Museo Nacional de of these into books the first in 1972 scientist Tibor Szekeji . Antropologia . for the 14th International Ex libris Andrusko’s 200th miniature Nuttall, Zelia (ed .), The Codex Nuttall, Julian I . Edison Bradbury, Robert C . "Miniature Congress in Helsingor . This book book “Glasgow” was sponsored 1975, 0-468-23168-2, Dover Publications . e-mail: jiestl@mac .com Books, Catalog 7" (April, 2001), measures 42X38mm and contains by this author and dedicated to the Sandstrom, Alan and Pamela, Worcester, MA . 29 leaves with woodcuts of the first European and 8th Conclave Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico, 1986, 0-8061-1972-1, Agi Foldes town . Another was dedicated to held in Glasgow in 1990 . University of Oklahoma Press . 5761 Honore de Balzac Apt 611 Bradbury, Robert C . "Miniature Linz which hosted the Congress in Since Glasgow, Andrusko has Solana, Nelly Gutierrez, Codices de Montreal, Quebec H4W 1T3 Books, Catalog 8" (June, 2001), 1980 . made only 20 more miniature Mexico, 1992, 968-38-0301-6, in Spanish, Worcester, MA . Andrusko used his largest books, but we can report that at Panorama Editorial . Canada Sten, Maria, Codices of Mexico, 1972, home: 514-484-5809 graphic in a 54x540mm format to age 86, he is still painting . The art- create a keepsake for the 2nd MBS ist’s inner urge is so strong he con- 1979, Panorama Editorial . Tuttle Antiquarian Books . Valle, Perla, Codice Kingsborough, "Catalog 429 Miniature Books" Conclave held in Boston, Mass . tinues to work creatively . Dean Gattone 1995, in Spanish, INAH . (Spring, 2001), Rutland, VT . USA 1984 . The author and the Miniature —-Codice de Tlatelolco, 1996, in office: 910-254-9383 x117 Andrusko’s favorite motif is Book Society wish Karoly Spanish, INAH . Timm, Jill “Mystical Places the countryside and the greatest Andrusko many happy returns on Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, The Aztec and Maya Papermakers, 1944, 1999, Dover Howell: correct first name to: Press, Miniature Book Catalog” number of miniature books his 86th Birthday . Publications . David (2001) . Austin, TX . describe places where the artist ——Dr . Martin Znidersic has been . From his own town

July 2001 16 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 17 July 2001 Almanac frontispieces usually format . The square and finger sized 1695 -- Figure of Justice (?) hold- came after the title page . almanacs have no frontispiece illus- ing scales of justice and cornucopia . The standard size London trations . 1696 -- 1697 -- Reclining female figure Almanacs measured 2 1/4 by 1 1/4 The Keeper of Prints and Maps NumberMiniature 109 Julian I. Edison, Editor Book 8 St. Andrews Drive,News St louis, MO 63124 who is holding lizard (?), with rainbow July 2001 inches . They were published most- in the Guildhall Library in London and pea, ly by the Company of Stationers sent us a list of these almanac fron- 1698 -- and usually contained an engraved tispiece engravings, arranged by 1699 -- title page followed by an engraved year, albeit incomplete . Louis Bondy, 1700 -- London Almanac Frontispiece Engravings frontispiece of a building or other the legendary miniature book dealer 1701 -- Reclining male figure on scene . The title page typically and author, had also compiled a list cloud wearing laurel wreath and hold- ing harp and sceptre . In his 1981 Miniature Books itarian objects into decorative and have dealt with these almanacs in showed a coat-of-arms cross inside a from the almanacs he had seen over 1702 -- Female figure representing opus, Louis Bondy writes a full often beautiful gifts . Thus some of general, showing illustrations of the circle . The circle contained lettering the years . Bondy's list was arranged chapter on English Almanac and the most strikingly attractive minia- text, the calendars, the different London, holding sword, leaning on which stated, for example, "London first by engraving scene, then by City arms, with mace at her side . Calendars of the 18th and 19th cen- ture books can be found in this sizes and some of the beautiful Almanac For 1876," under which year, as several scenes reappeared in 1703 -- Queen Anne reclining on turies . His opening paragraph catagory .” bindings that attended these works . appeared the wording "The Almanac several years . This list also was river bank (?), with outsized British reads: The London Almanacs were However, one aspect of these Explained ." incomplete, but no list has ever been Isles on globe, and shield with union “Almanacs and calendars produced every year for over 200 interesting, and sometimes curi- Each frontispiece typically published to our knowledge . markings on it, ships in background . belong to the most frequently years from the 17th into the 20th ous, almanacs that has never been was spread out on four pages, but 1704 -- encountered miniature books . By century, thus becoming the longest fully covered anywhere to our 1705 -- could also appear as a one page 1706 -- Royal Exchange of London . their very nature and ephemeral continuous series of miniature knowledge is the lovely engraved fold-out essentially four standard interest, they were often published books ever produced and perhaps illustrations that appeared as fron- 1707 -- Westminster Hall . pages in width . 1708 -- in small sizes to ensure that they the longest series of any books . The tispieces in many of these works . A This frontispiece was then fol- 1709 -- Winged figure of Victory could be carried in pockets or hand- earliest London Almanac recorded frontispiece is an illustration that lowed by a page of eclipse infor- crowned with laurel wreath, holding bags so as to be ready for instant appears to be a 1690 issue now in typically appears before the title mation, twelve months of calen- palm and ( . . ), surrounded by trophies . consultation . In addition, they the British Library . page, although it can appear just dars and then usually six pages of 1710 -- 1711 -- Female figure in chariot developed quickly from purely util- Several articles in past MBNs after the title page . The London Regal tables showing dates of the drawn by lion and unicorn, St . Paul's reigns of British Kings and Queens, inaccurately represented in backround . two pages of officers of state, a 1712 -- Haloed female figure hold- page of postage stamp tables and a ing palm and ( . ),. with St, Paul's in page of dividends, Bank holidays, background . income tax information (income The Guildhall statement went 1713 -- Britannia seated in sea taxes were miniature in those on to say that the almanacs which chariot, drawn by lion and unicorn, days!), a total of 21 to 24 pages, were bound as miniature books ships in background . 1714 -- Britannia accompanied by depending on whether the frontis- were called "vest-pocket almanacs .” symbols of art, geometry, geography, piece was a one pull-out page or By this is meant that the almanacs etc ., St . Paul's and Queen Anne statue four separate pages . were pulled or printed from in background . The early London Almanacs engraved plates in sheets that had 1715 -- Reclining female figure displayed frontispieces of allegori- all 21-24 pages engraved on one wearing laurel wreath, and holding cal or symbolical scenes, such as St . large plate . The sheets themselves fasces and heart on plate, ships in back- George and Dragon or Winged measured 9 3/4 by 8 1/4 inches . The ground . 1716 -- Reclining female figure figure of Victory . Around 1735 the large engraved printed pages were holding laurel wreath, a profile view of scenes shifted to views of London's then cut up and bound into the min- City of London in background . many handsome buildings and iature formats we have discussed . 1717 -- Mars (?) with lion and panaramas, and this format Otherwise, in the earliest days the three river gods (?) . remained well into the late 1800s . almanacs must have been distribut- 1718 -- Seated Britannia with putti Besides the standard 2 1/4 x 1 ed in their original sheet form . holding roundals containing portraits 1/4 inch size, there were several Here then is the list of of (,,,) . 1719 -- Female figure representing other formats: square 1 1/4 inch London Almanac frontispieces, in Geography (?) with dividers and globe; where the leaves were folded hori- chronological order . To simplify, we putto viewing meteor through tele- zontally, so-called "finger" size of 2 have not included the engraver's scope . 1/4 x 5/8 inch where the leaves name: 1720 -- Angel on 1 .; figure of ( . . ) Portion of an engraved sheet from the London Almanac for 1755. Shows title page, common notes page and several were folded vertically, rare double and putto with telescope . pages of months for the year. Engraving of Buckingham House spans 4 pages. 96% of actual size. This sheet was cut size 2 1/4 x 2 5/8 inch, and even a 1693 -- St . George and dragon . 1721 -- up, pieced together and bound to form a London Almanac book, usually sized 2 1/4 by 1 1/4 inches. very rare triple or quadruple size 1694 -- 1722 -- July 2001 18 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 19 July 2001 1723 -- 1762 -- The Surgeons-Theatre in 1787 --(Miniature heads of the 1817 -- View of Westminster School, Haverstock Hill . Kensington . 1724 -- (Putti-see) . the Old-Bailey . Prince of Wales, Mrs . Fitzherbert, Dr . Abbey, with the Recent Improvements . 1849 -- View of Claremont . 1883 -- City of London School . 1725 -- Stationers Hall . 1763 -- London Bridge . Johnson, and Mrs . Piozzi .) 1818 -- View of the New Custom 1850 -- Fishmongers and Poulterers 1884 -- Fishmongers' Hall . 1726 -- 1764 -- Somerset House . 1788 -- South west View of St . House, from the River . Institution, Wood Green, Tottenham . 1885 -- City and Guilds of London 1727 -- (Angel and women, man 1765 -- Inside of the Royal Luke's Hospital for Lunaticks, in Old 1819 -- Vauxhall Bridge with a 1851 -- Mansions of Earl Spencer Institute . with globes - see .) Exchange . Street . View of the Penitentiary at Millbank . and the Earl of Ellesmere in the Green 1886 -- St . Paul's School, 1728 -- The King and Queen sur- 1766 -- Black Fryars Bridge . 1789 -- Caarleton (sicl) House, the 1820 -- View of the London Park . Hammersmith . rounded by figures representing Trade, 1767 -- The Bank . Residence of His Royal Highness the Institution; Moorfields . 1852 -- The Marble Arch, 1887 -- Chelsea Hospital . Wealth,the City of London, etc . 1768 -- The East India House . Prince of Wales . 1821 -- View of Southwark Bridge . Cumberland Gate, Hyde Park . 1888 -- People's Palace, Mile End . 1729 -- (Three woman - see .) 1769 -- Westminster Bridge . 1790 -- York House the Residence 1822 -- View of Furnivals Inn, 1853 -- N .W . View of Osborne - 1889 -- St . James' Palace . 1730 -- of His Highness the Duke of York . Holborn . Isle of Wight . 1890 -- Sandringham House . 1731 -- 1791 -- View of the Queen's Lodge 1823 -- View of the Quadrant in 1854 -- Virginia Water . 1891 -- The Imperial Institute . 1732 -- (Women with globe and and Castle at Windsor . Regents Street . putto - see .) 1792 -- Guild-Hall, London . 1855 -- Holland House, 1892 -- The Church House . 1733 -- 1793 -- View of the New House of 1824 -- A View of St . Pancras New Kensington . 1893 -- Victoria Embankment . 1734 -- (Putti - see .) Correction for the County of Middlesex . Church . 1856 -- The Commercial Travellers' 1894 -- The Temple . 1735 -- 1794 -- View of the Coal Exchange, 1825 -- View of Saint Paul's School . School, Pinner . 1895 -- The Tower Bridge . 1736 -- (Profile view of the City Thames Street . 1826 -- View of Richmond Terrace, 1857 -- The New Chelsea Bridge, derived from 'Kip' view, 1710 .) 1770 -- South Sea House . 1795 -- View of Drury Lane Whitehall . Leading to Battersea Park . From this date the London 1737 -- Cripple-Gate Lud-Gate 1771 -- St . Bartholomew's Hospital . Theatre . 1827 -- View of the Duke of York's 1858 -- Ornamental Water and Almanac was published, not by New-Gate . 1772 -- The New Excise Office . 1796 -- View of the inside of the House, in the Green Park . New Foot Bridge in St . James's Park . the Stationers' Company, but by 1738 -- Alders Gate and Moor 1773 -- The City of London Lying- Hall at Carlton House . 1828 -- The Grand Entrance of 1859 -- The Queen's Pavilion, Messrs . Peacock, Mansfield, & Gate . In Hospital . 1797 -- View of the Trinity House Hyde Park and the Lodge of the Kings Aldershot . Britton of 18 Salisbury Square . 1739 -- Bishops-Gate Aldgate New 1774 -- The New Sessions House . Tower Hill . Palace . 1860 -- Chelsea Hospital from Gate . 1775 -- Adelphi Buildings . 1798 -- View of Westminster Abbey 1829 -- The New Hall, Christ's Battersea Park . 1740 -- Guild-Hall (exterior) . 1776 -- The Admiralty . from Lambeth . Hospital . 1861 -- Royal Freemason's School 1741 -- Inside of Guild-Hall . 1799 -- View of St . Paul's and Black 1830 -- The Kings Palace, St . James for Female Children . 1742 -- Custom House . Friars Bridge . Park . 1862 -- The Temperate House 1743 -- The Tower of London . 1800 -- View of the New Front of 1831 -- View of the New Bridge, in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 1744 -- Bethlem . the East India House . Hyde Park . 1863 -- Royal Humane Society's 1745 -- Navy Office . 1801 -- View of Guildford Street 1832 -- St . Katherine's Hospital Receiving House, Hyde Park . 1746 -- Charter House . from queen Square . and Chapel, Regent's Park . 1864 -- Victoria Park, Fountain 1747 -- Aske's Hospital . 1802 -- View of Brunswick Square 1833 -- New Hungerford Market . Presented by Miss Burdett Coutts . 1748 -- Christ's Hospital . 1803 -- View of Stationers' Hall 1834 -- View of the New Grammar- 1865 -- Sandringham Hall, Norfolk 1749 -- St . Paul's School . 1777 -- A View of Somerset House, and the Adjacent Buildings . School, Christ's Hospital . 1866 -- The Albert Memorial - 1750 -- The Mansion House . from the River Thames . 1804 -- View of the West India 1835 -- View of New Goldsmith's Hyde Park . 1751 -- The Foundling Hospital . 1778 -- A View of Westminster Docks from Blackwall Entrance . Hall, Foster Lane . 1867 -- Royal Masonic Institution 1752 -- The Archbishop of Hall from New Palace Yard . 1805 -- View of the Royal Military 1836 -- The New National Gallery . for Boys, Wood Green - Tottenham . Canterbury's Palace at Lambeth . 1779 -- New Offices in the Strand Asylum Chelsea . 1837 -- View of St . George's 1868 -- The Royal Dramatic 1753 -- Ironmonger's Hall . formerly Somerset House . 1806 -- View of the London Docks . 1754 -- A View of the Horse 1780 -- Back Front of the New Hospital, Hyde Park Corner . College - Woking . 1807 -- North West View of Russell Guards . Offices in the Strand lately Somerset 1838 -- The City of London School . 1869 -- Alexandra Park Palace . Square . 1755 -- Buckingham House . House . 1839 -- The New School for the 1870 -- Metropolitan Meat Market . 1808 -- View of the House of Lords . 1756 -- Greenwich Hospital . 1781 -- Stationer's Hall . Indigent Blind, St . George's Fields . 1871 -- New St . Thomas's Hospital . 1809 -- View of the Royal Military 1757 -- The British Museum or 1782 -- Entrance into the Pantheon, 1840 -- St . Saviour' Church, St . 1872 -- Albert Hall and Academy, Woolwich . Late Montague House . Oxford Street taken from the Music Thomas's Hospital, in the Approach to International Exhibition . 1810 -- View of the Naval Asylum, 1758 -- The inside of the Church of Gallery . London Bridge . 1873 -- Charter House School - at Greenwich . St . Stephen Walbrook Sir Chrisr . Wren 1783 -- Ordnance Office, Old 1841 -- The West or Garden Front Godalming . 1811 -- View of Covent-Garden Kt . Architect . Palace Yard . of Buckingham Palace . 1874 -- City Library and Museum . Theatre . 1759 -- The London Hospital . 1783 -- (Miniature heads of 1842 -- Terminus of the Blackwall 1875 -- Dulwich College . 1812 -- View of the New-Mint, 1760 -- Marlborough House in St . General Conway, General Eliot, Lord Railway . 1876 -- Alexandra Palace . Tower Hill . James's Park . Rodney, and Lord Keppel . 1843 -- Sun Fire Office, 1877 -- Kensington; Palace . 1761 -- The Corn Market in Mark Printed for T . Carnan) . 1813 -- View of the Drury Lane Threadneedle Street . 1878 -- Granville Marina, Lane . 1784 -- A View of Old Palace Yard, Theatre . 1844 -- The New Royal Exchange . Ramsgate . Westminster . 1814 -- View of the Royal College 1845 -- The Houses of Parliament . 1879 -- Chelsea Embankment . 1785 -- View of Somerset Place of Surgeons in Lincolns Inn Fields . 1846 -- Richmond Hill from 1880 -- Cleopatra Needle (from the from the River Thames . 1815 -- View of the Strand Bridge Twickenham Meadows . Thames) . 1786 -- View of the Bank of and the Thames . 1847 -- Infant Orphan Asylum, 1881 -- New Barracks, England ,. Threadneedle Street . 1816 -- View of the New Bethlem Wanstead . Knightsbridge . 1787 -- Apothecaraies Hall, Black Hospital, St . Georges Fields . Friars . 1848 -- The Orphan Working 1882 -- Natural History Museum, July 2001 20 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 21 July 2001 A Quarterly Publication, New Series, Number 51 July 2001 Incorporating The Miniature Book News Number 109

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In striking an agree- materially to the value of the MBS ment with long-time Newsletter, enabling it to deliver a member Julian Edison broader look at the world of minia- earlier this year, the ture books, both new and old . Miniature Book Society Welcome aboard, Julian . . . Board of Governors took a and thanks for lending your exper- significant step to better tise to help MBS better serve its serve its members through members, and the collecting com- enhanced newsletter con- munity . tent . Effective with this In another action, the Board issue, Edison’s Miniature accepted an invitation to hold the Book News will be incor- 2002 Conclave in Covington, porated into the MBS Kentucky, just across the Ohio Newsletter . River from Cincinnati . To be host- Miniature Book ed by Mark Palkovic, Miriam Irwin Donn Sanford News (MBN) has been and Gabrielle Fox, the Conclave Julian’s labor of love since 1965, will be held October 11-14, assur- and through 108 issues has focused ing cooler and more comfortable principally on antiquarian minia- days . ture books . He is widely recog- As the end of my term nized as a real authority on older approaches, I recall that in my first miniature books, and has liberally column, I wrote about one of my shared his knowledge and insights goals as President: “… to increase through MBN’s tightly packed member participation… Too often, pages . I have often referred to we see the same reliable tried-and- MBN as the collector’s “scholarly” true names in connection with publication, while our own MBS MBS activities . It’s time for new Newsletter serves as the reporter folks step up and take charge .” of current events I believe I can claim success in Anxious to free himself of the getting new people involved . quarterly production grind (type- Without naming them all, I thank setting, layout, printing, mailing those who came forward to take etc .), but not yet willing to “retire” over the Newsletter, work on the as Editor and Publisher, Julian Book Exhibition, Awards, and approached me at the Koblenz Conclaves, or just serve on a com- Conclave in 1999, suggesting a mittee . You’re making MBS stron- marriage of MBN with our news- ger, and we all owe you a big debt letter . Two years later, an accept- of gratitude . able agreement was reached, and It’s been a real honor to serve the result will be seen starting on as President, and to have the page 18 of this issue . This amalga- opportunity to work with a dedi- mation comes at a cost to MBS – cated group of people on the Board extra typesetting, printing and of Governors . Together, we’ve mailing costs for four additional tried to make a difference . pages – and an additional work- See you in Indianapolis, load for Editor Dean Gattone and Art Director Jill Timm . But, the Board felt that the benefit to mem- bers far outweighs the dollars involved . The MBN section adds

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