…”Tapping at your door, some little [volumes] stand…”
From the poem, Wishing Land by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1906

A selection of miniature books and small books on exhibit until end of April, 2008 in Special Collections, 2nd Floor URI Library

–a part of the Rhode Island Center for the Book Partnering event, 2008

Pictured:  In the background is its specially built case crafted by the Dragonfly Bindery for four miniatures, one of which, Five American Immortals by Joseph Auslander, is pictured; a girdle book miniature of the 23rd Psalm bound in kangaroo leather at Bookarts, Canberra,2001 and an illuminated prayer book from the Eichenberg Collection.