Mite, The. Robinson, E[rnest] A. Grimsby. 1912.

27 printed pages + 4 pages of births and deaths of British monarchs from Queen Victoria. 5 illustrations (including Gutenberg Fust and Schoeffer. It covers the invention of printing, the Eiffel Tower, the annual consumprtion of steel for pins, and various significant dates. 18 x 21 mm. Original red printed paper wrappers. A similar copy is in Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library (E.V. Lucas, 381). Originally published in 1891, "This book is issued as a curiosity and is the smallest ever printed from type in the world. The type used is Brilliant, 20 lines to the in. ..."-Preface. In 1981 Louis Bondy said" for many years the smallest English book printed from moveable type and may in fact still desrve that distinction". Bondy, 99. Pistner, 92. Not in Spielmann, see 376 for 1891 edition. Not in Welsh, see 5069 for 1896 edition. WorldCat locates no copies of this 1912 edition worldwide.