| OCR Text |
Show World Smallest Book , ; in Library of Congreu Some of the Interesting curiosities t tha Library of On grew In Washington Wash-ington are: -the smallest book In the world, the longest printed work in the world and the largest book In America. The smallest book la a copy of the Rubalyat of Omar Khayyam. The longest work Is the To Shu Chinese Chi-nese encyclopedia, whUe the largest book tn America is James Audubon's "Birds of America." ! . . The midget Rubalyat la only three-eighths three-eighths of an Inch wide and one-eighth of an Inch thick. Letters In the book, even on the title page, are so small that they can be read only with the aid of a powerful magnifying glass. Its 48 pages of Japan paper are daintily stitched and. bound In green paper. The printing of the mum-moth mum-moth Tu Shu Chinese encyclopedia has been called the "greatest typographical typo-graphical feat In the world." Three years were required to print Its 0,280 volumes with their 800,000 pages. The table of contents alone la forty vol-nnies. vol-nnies. A copy of this voluminous work printed at Shanghai was given to the United States by the emperor of China In 1008. Audubon's "Birds of America," Amer-ica," the giant American book, Is forty Inches long, twenty-six and one-half Inches wide and two and one-fourth Inches thick. 8o large are Its pages that on one of them a turkey Is produced pro-duced In Ufe-slse. The set comprises four volumes. They are bound In red horsehlde and were presented to the library by Audubon himself In 1827. Detroit News. |
