(There are also a few ultra-micro-miniatures, with no dimension greater than a quarter of an inch one, shockingly, looks to be about as big as the period in this sentence.) The oldest is a cuneiform tablet from about 2300 B.C. Most of the books in the exhibit are about one to three inches high and would nestle easily in the palm of your hand. (The exhibition, curated by Pistner and Jan Storm van Leeuwen, closes on May 19.) About 950 books from her collection are currently on display at the Grolier Club, the nation’s oldest society of bibliophiles, in Manhattan. “I made a life-changing decision to put in a library,” Pistner said, “and instead of using faux books I decided I would have real books.”įast forward a number of years - and a number of courses on antiquarian books, miniature books and the history of bookbinding - to now, when Pistner (pronounced PEIST-ner) has become one of the country’s foremost collectors of miniature books. There would be more dollhouses - ones she and her husband built and furnished for his granddaughters, and the now famous Pistner House, a five-and-a-half-foot-high marvel of 18th-century French architecture and design that features perfectly-scaled miniature reproductions, made over half a decade, by 65 artists and artisans. “A house has to have books in it,” she said recently. She placed them on tiny doll tables in tiny doll rooms and read them aloud to tiny dolls. Pistner’s life were ones she made with paper and a staple gun for her childhood dollhouse many years ago. The first miniature books to enter Patricia J.
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