Tiny Books Exhibit at Harvard’s Houghton Library
I realize this is quite orthogonal to my usual subjects, but I think some of you could be interested in this Houghton Library exhibit of 300 small books from Harvard graduate and Miniature Book News editor Julian I. Edison’s collection.
Spanning 4,000 years, the items on display include Babylonian cuneiform tablets, the New Testament on a five-millimeter square gold plaque, a book about pacemakers with a pacemaker inlaid in the cover, and a Bible with its own magnifying glass: “‘It magnifies the letters…some.’”
The exhibit in the Edison and Newman Room runs through Friday, September 2.
