Multum Parvo Library (3 results)

10 [11]-16, ads pp. 16mo, publisher's wrappers. Wrappers soiled; bottom marginal edge chewed, 1" wide and 1/8" deep.

Original wraps. Condition: Very good. Thirty-one issues of the Multum in Parvo Library, the "Smallest Magazine in the World," as published from 1894 to 1896. (illustrator). Volume I, No. 1 - Vol. III, No. 36. Original paper wrappers, bound with navy blue thread and one staple at center of spine. Each volume measures 3" x 4.25", each roughly 16pp. Advertised as the "Smallest Magazine in the World," with a subscription cost of 50 cents per year, or 5 cents per copy. Light wear to corners, short closed tears along front cover of Volume I, Number 1. Rear page detached from three volumes. Binding still intact throughout, a few missing pages are laid in. Occasional marginalia. Volume I (1894) is complete with twelve issues; Volume II (1895) missing three of twelve issues; and Volume III (1896) missing two of twelve issues. A unique set of both fiction and nonfiction writings covering a variety of subjects including Mormonism Exposed, How to Get Rich, and Gay Love in Paris. Miniature publications of all genres grew popular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to make large amounts of information easily portable. (Villanova University) (Forsberg 413).

saddle stapled wrapper. Condition: Very Good. 16 pages. 4 x 2.8 inches. Excellent condition, with no rust to staple. The story had appeared a few months earlier, in the 2 January 1897 issue of Chambers's Journal, under the authorship of W. E. Cule (pp. 12-15). Uncommon; we have handled only four of these in 40 years.