One of the things I like about living in a large city like Buenos Aires is the unexpected. A while back we were hanging out with our friend Robert at El Hipopótamo, one of those classic bars from the 1920s that dot Buenos Aires, when a bearded maker of miniature books came by selling his little books.
He had a selection of titles, most going for around $5. We chose the Cuentos de la Selva (Stories of the Jungle) by the classic Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga.
You can see the size of the book here next to an ink pen. The size of the book is 6cm x 7.5 cm.
Nice binding!
And despite the small size the print is very readable. (My little Sony digital camera doesn’t focus too well at this small of a distance - and I didn’t feel like throwing the book on the flatbed scanner - so any fuzziness in this photo is my camera and not the typography).
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