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Lilliputian Newspapers
Author: James D Henderson

Lilliputian By JAMES D. HENDERSON Scrwemr of the LXlVmes Foreword BjR. W. G. VAIL Ltbranan, American Anttquartan Society ACHILLE J. ST. ONGE Worcester, Massachusetts MCMXXXVI BY JAMES D HENDERSON PRINTED IN 1 H r UNITTD STATES OF AMERICA BTt THE PLIMPTON P K. L S S OT NORWOOD MASS To WILBUR MACEY STONE DEAN OF MICROBIBLIOPHILES THIS LITTLE ESSAY... more » IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED in appreciation for his having inoculated this writer tvith a new bug, as he at one time inscribed with abject afologies in his Snuff Box Full of Bibles CONTENTS FOREWORD, by R. W. G. Vail n RAISON DETRE 15 NEWSPAPERS IN MINIATURE Amencan 22 A SINGLE EDITION NEWSPAPER 60 MAGAZINES IN MINIATURE Amencan 64 MINIATURE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES European 72 POSTSCRIPT 92 INDEX 7 ILLUSTRATIONS Wilbur Macey Stone frontispiece Public Ledger, Philadelphia 45 News-Lettet of the ixivmos 51 Sheboygan Weekly 55 Fun Almanac 76 Country Life, English 81 Punch 81 Tit-Bits 85 9 RIZE Itttle things nor tktnk tt ill That men small things preserve ABRAHAM COWLEY T JLH FOREWORD . HOSE of us who, in gathering our own hlliputian libraries have tun across occasional miniatuie news papers, have found them exceedingly interesting Whether they were produced to honor the Queen, her Dolls House, or merely as a dodge to catch sub scribers and advertisers, they are sufficiently scarce and attractive to arrest the attention of the most ex acting of microphdes. And now the greatest of all collectors of little books, the Scrivener of the world wide fellowship of the ixivmos, has dipped into his collection and his remarkable knowledge of the tiny tomes of all nations to charm us with a volume on miniature newspapers and magazines. Many a staid and famous journal has had its minia ture edition, and many a learned library has indus triously collected such issues, so it cannot be that this is a small-boy hobby even though it is small in format. Even the dignified New York Times has suggested that it might be willing to publish an octavo rag paper edition of itself for the greater convenience of those wishing to keep its bound files within easy and con venient reach. FOREWORD Now-a-days we are hearing more and more of the plans of our great libraries to reproduce our newspaper files on motion-picture film, thus preserving our news print in a form little larger than a postage stamp. This is micro-journalism with a vengeance, hut it is practical, too, for it preserves our crumbling, wood pulp files in permanent form, and in such small com pass that one person could easily walk off with an en tire file of the New York Times and store it in his coat closet. Imagine that But, you ask, how about read ing it Simplest thing in the worW Just insert your reel of film in a projector, press a lever, and there, on the ground glass, is the full-sized newspaper waiting for you to read. And pressing the lever is much easier than turning a bulky, folio newspaper page. In this way, for a cent or two a page, you can have in your library a full file of any newspaper or a copy of any book or manuscript, even if the original is in the Brit ish Museum. Then, if you are interested in illumi nated manuscripts, you can, by using color photog raphy, have a complete copy in all its glorious coloring of the Golden Gospels of Henry VIII or the Book o Kells, and all in such compact space that you could hide it in your humidor. So miniature newspapers arent so very ridiculous 12

ISBN-13: 9781406731040
ISBN-10: 1406731048
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 100
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Publisher: Oliphant Press
Book Type: Paperback
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