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(MINIATURE BOOKS.) Omar Khayyam. The Rose Garden . . . Founded on the Persian by Eben Francis Thompson. 4x6 mm, limp red morocco. Worcester, 1932 E400-600 ONE OF 250 SETS, published by subscription, comprising the smallest edition of the Rubaiyat and

(MINIATURE BOOKS.) Omar Khayyam. The Rose Garden . . . Founded on the Persian by Eben Francis Thompson. 4x6 mm, limp red morocco. Worcester, 1932 E400-600 ONE OF 250 SETS, published by subscription, comprising the smallest edition of the Rubaiyat and one of the smallest books ever printed, laid in .5 red morocco book box as issued, together with proof sheet in pamphlet form; magnifying glass; and 2 larger editions of The Rose Garden (measuring 42x35 mm and 145x125 mm) and Thompson's A Thimbleful of Books, being some account of small books in all ages (8vo, Worcester, 1933), all in red morocco.Glassine dust jackets on the largest Rubaiyat and A Thimbleful of Books chipped; this set lacks the additional loose proof sheet. Bondy page 154; Spielmann 396A.

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