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[MINUSCULE BOOK]

The Lord's Prayer
Mainz
Gutenberg Museum
[1952]
€1.200 - €1.800

"Minuscule (5 x 5 mm). Publ. black leather, gilt fillets and cross on upper cover, giltruled flat spine. Kept in a specially designed box, also containing 3 original types (titlepage - textleave and colophon). 7 versions of the Lord's Prayer in 7 languages incl. American and British English. Loose in the box, 3 original types used to print this 'smallest book of the world"" ('Original-Type vom kleinsten in Buchdruck herstellten Buch der Welt'). This exceptionally small book was sold by the Gutenberg Museum to help in the reconstruction of that famous museum of printing. The original types are only present in few copies"

"Ref. Bondy p. 155; Spielmann p. 119 and not in Welsh"