page_title: Miniature book
section_title: Miniature editions of works not originally published in miniature form
hierarchical_section_title: Miniature book / Notable miniatures / Miniature editions of works not originally published in miniature form
caption_attribution_description: English: A set of miniature books comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, housed in a wooden bookcase on a rotating stand.
context_page_description: A miniature book is a very small book. Standards for what may be termed a miniature rather than just a small book have changed through time. Today, most collectors consider a book to be miniature only if it is 3 inches or smaller in height, width, and thickness, particularly in the United States. Many collectors consider nineteenth-century and earlier books of 4 inches to fit in the category of miniatures. Book from 3-4 inches in all dimensions are termed macrominiature books. Books less than 1 inch in all dimensions are called microminiature books. Books less than 1/4 inch in all dimensions are known as ultra-microminiature books.
context_section_description: Diamond Classics series published by William Pickering, from 1819
  Miniature Constitution of Ukraine
  Thumb Bibles
caption: The Ellen Terry Shakespeare Glasgow: David Bryce and Son; New York; Frederick A. Stokes Co.,[1904]. Remains the smallest edition of the complete works of Shakespeare. Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.  Photograph by Molly Schwartzburg
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