768 printed pages. All edges yellow. Original plain tan endpapers. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1902. Provenance: Pamela Jane Rickwood. 30 x 44 mm. Original full straight-grained ruby limp morocco. Spine and front cover gllt stamped with Fleur-de Lys designs and having a central diamond shape with gilt blocked title. Spielmann, 101. Welsh, 1861. OCLC, 262292750. WorldCat locates nine copies worldwide. David Bryce & Son were among the world’s most prolific publishers of miniature books, using advanced photographic reduction and "Diamond" type (exceptionally small font) to create readable books often no larger than a thumb. Bryce published and sold these in Glasgow, they were printed at the Glasgow University Press using specialized thin "India paper" to maintain a small physical profile supplied by Henry Frowde and the Oxford University Press. These tiny prayer books were highly fashionable as novelty gifts and were prized for the immense skill required to bind such small items in materials like limp morocco.








