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[MINIATURE BOOK]. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Cleveland: Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900.
8 x 8 mm. (Text block broken with one leaf loose, slight damage to one or two leaves from earlier re-insertion of loose page.) Original plain green cloth. Provenance: Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas (his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1 April 1947, lot 226, and described as "The Smallest Book in the World," Emil Offenbacher agent).
ONE OF ONLY FIFTY-SEVEN COPIES, printed from plates which were afterward destroyed. Bondy, pp. 154-155.
8 x 8 mm. (Text block broken with one leaf loose, slight damage to one or two leaves from earlier re-insertion of loose page.) Original plain green cloth. Provenance: Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas (his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1 April 1947, lot 226, and described as "The Smallest Book in the World," Emil Offenbacher agent).
ONE OF ONLY FIFTY-SEVEN COPIES, printed from plates which were afterward destroyed. Bondy, pp. 154-155.