I'm enchanted to include the Del Prado Miniature Classics Library in my Tiny Books Library. Between 2003-04, Del Prado produced this collection that consists of 101 books sized at 67mm x 52mm (2.64" x 2.05"). The above photo shows the collection in its original bookcase which I unfortunately do not have. My books are partly housed in another Del Prado bookcase originally meant for the Spanish edition; as you see, the bookcase is smaller than what can fit the English edition, but I still enjoy its company:
Fables by Aesop
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (3 vols: Inferno, Paradisio, Purgatorio)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (2 vols)
An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac
The Adventures of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
The Corsair by Lord Byron
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (3 vols)
Selected Tales by ‘Anton Chekhov
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
From London to Lands’ End by Daniel Defoe
Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Selected Poetry by Emily Dickinson
Selected Poetry by John Donne
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
All For Love by John Dryden
Silas Mariner by George Eliot (2 vols)
In Praise of Folly by Erasmus of Rotterdam
Taras Bulba by Nikolay Gogol
The Son’s Veto and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2 vols)
Selected Tales by E.T.A. Hoffman
Odyssey by Homer (2 vols)
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Tales from the Alhambra by Washington Irving (2 vols)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Endymion by John Keats (2 vols)
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
South Sea Tales by Jack London
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Bartleby the Scrivener – Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
Paradise Lost by John Milton (2 vols)
Tartuffe by Moliere
The School for Husbands – The School for Wives by Moliere
Utopia by Thomas More
Heroides by Ovid
Thoughts by Blaise Pascal (2 vols)
The Canzoniere by Petrarch (2 vols)
The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The Sonnets to Orpheus – Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
A Season in Hell, Illuminations, Poems, Last Lines by Arthur Rimbaud
The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Selected Poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Brude of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott (2 vols)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2 vols)
Prometheus Unbound by Percy B. Shelly
Oedipus Rex – Antigone by Sophocles
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gullivers’ Travels: Part 1 A Voyage to Lilliput by Jonathan Swift
In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson
The Yellow Plush Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Eve’s Diary – Extracts from Adams Diary by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2 vols)
Beowulf by Unknown
Round The Moon by Jules Verne
Bucolics, The Georgics by Virgil
Candide by Voltaire
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
William Tell by Friedrich von Schiller
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (2 vols)
Selected Tales – Shorter Tales by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Selected Poetry by William Wordsworth
Here are photos from its original leaflet (the entire leaflet can be seen at The Library Thing:
I’m lucky to have a complete set The Del Prado Miniature Books. And now John and Tabitha of H & O
Antiquarian have developed fore-edge images against them, and I have three of the first seven they’ve produced (along with mini bookmarks)! I’m delighted because I love fore-edge painted books. While these aren’t painted, they are lovely.
