Title: The Holy Bible, containing The Old and the New Testaments (King James)
Publisher: Richard Edwards, Bristol, 1802.
Condition: Leather with gilt to all edges and marbled endpapers. Somewhat worn, with rubbing to covers. Needs to be handled gently. Except for covers, which are attached but unconvincingly so, binding is tight. Text unmarked. A tiny, tiny book with tiny, tiny fonts.
About this edition:
This edition of The Bible, at 5″x2.5″ (24mo), has the distinction of being named “one of the smallest Bibles ever printed” in William Pickering’s Catalogue of Biblical, Historical and Classical Manuscripts and of Rare and Curious Books (1834). The catalogue also notes that this edition is ‘scarce’. Although this copy is hardly readable, and smaller Bibles have been printed since, the edition was unique for its time and would be a point of interest for any collection.
