"The doll’s house is on public view at Windsor Castle in England. The 1:12 scale detailing of it is fine throughout, but particularly spectacular is the library, the story of which is chronicled in The Miniature Library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, an excellent new illustrated history by Elizabeth Clark Ashby, curator of books and manuscripts at the Royal Collection Trust."

Fine Books & Collections

"The beautifully produced hardback publication provides a unique insight into the care taken by those who handwrote and illustrated the postage-stamp-sized pages, as well as the difficulties some of them faced. Newly investigated correspondence reveals where some authors, such as Thomas Hardy, found the miniature nature of the work to be insurmountable, meaning calligraphers were enlisted. The joy many of the writers took in their task is also described, such as where E. F. Benson jokingly crossed out the first lines of a limerick in his tiny book Poems, and Max Beerbohm wrote of shrinking to doll size to live in the Dolls’ House Library, only to be caught and ejected."

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