Book Interlude

Title: Book Interlude

Author: Smith, Charlotte

Publication: Newton [Iowa]: Tamazunchale Press, 1983.

Description: Miniature book containing the publisher's account of her trip to England, including visits to the Cockerell and Sangorski and Sutcliffe binderies. First book published by Tamazunchale Press. No. 215 of 250 copies. Signed by Charlotte Smith, the author and publisher. Printed from Trinité type by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem, Netherlands. Bound by Reliure d'Art du Centre of Limoges, France in full maroon calfskin with gilt lettering, Cockerell marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. 2.75 x 1.875 inches; [2], 44, [6] pages (first leaf and last two leaves blank). Slight bowing to the boards, else a clean and bright copy. Near Fine. The Dutch printer Joh. Enschedé en Zonen also printed Achille St. Onge miniature books, in addition to Dutch stamps and paper currency. Tamazunchale Press, established in Iowa by miniature book collector Charlotte Smith and her husband Tom, published 20 miniature books between 1983 and 1988.