The smallest print Bible in the world – and properly printed too!

This bible is small – very small. Only 4 x 3 cm.  As you can see from the pictures, you could fit it into a match box – never mind you pocket.

One of the most important things to notice here though, is that this is not a modern digital printing – it is a proper old fashioned printing, with a printing press, and separate letters placed onto the press, inked, and pushed onto the page. Imagine how small each piece of punch type has to be to make a single letter.

The 14 woodcuts are even more impressive. The artist had to carve, on a small piece of wood, an engraving clear enough to take ink, and give a clear impression on the page.

All this – and it was done in 1727, without the modern micro-machinery that would make this so much easier.