
876 printed pages. 28 full-page illustrations. One of the smallest of all Bryce miniature books and the smallest New Testament ever printed. "Staggeringly small"-Bondy. Facsimile of Oxford Pica 16mo and printed on the "very thinnest Oxford Paper ever made". All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. 29 x 43 mm. Beautifully rebound, perhaps by T.F. Ford, in black full crushed morocco with four raised bands, gilt titling and horizontal gilt lines to spine; blind embossed single ruled borders to covers. Complete with attractive matching morocco slipcase. Minor rubbing to gilt on spine. Pistner, B233:2. Spielmann, 388. Welsh, 787. OCLC, 877427799. WorldCat locates 12 copies worldwide. Thomas Francis Ford (1891-1971), Fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects, and Ashpitel Prize winner for outstanding architectural achievement (1919), was a successful Soaneian Classic architect of commercial, cinema, educational, and ecclesiastical buildings. Ford's passion was for bookbinding - 1960's miniature book bindings are a niche collecting field, and becoming increasingly hard to find; they all have a naïve charm.