[The Qur'an.]
David Bryce & Son.
[Glasgow : D. Bryce,
ca. 1900]
In metal locket with an inset magnifying glass.
Book Collector,
Bryce's miniature Qu'rans are photolithographic reductions of 19th-century Ottoman editions of Hafiz Osman's Qur'ans: one is based on the 1871 edition, complete with the signatures and seal impressions of the ten Islamic scholars; the other is based on an 1884 Istanbul edition of a different Hafiz Osman Qur'an manuscript, which reproduces in its entirely the printer's colophon of the imperial press in Istanbul.
Bound in red morocco with edges and pattern in gilt, similiar to that used on Bryce's miniature version of the Bible published in 1896.
Miniature books