[Boreman, Thomas].

59 by 46 mm., 2 volumes, second edition, woodcut frontispiece and 12 full-page illustrations in volume one, woodcut frontispiece and one full-page illustration in volume two, lists of subscribers in both volumes, 4 pages of publisher's advertisments at end of volume one, 3 pages of publisher's advertisements at end of volume two, original Dutch floral boards, short tear to A3 of volume two

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An extremely fine set. All volumes (see also lots 149 and 150) are bound in the same floral boards. Scrap paper used in the binding reveals a binding date of 1757.

Louis W. Bondy notes that "the most remarkable tiny books of the [eighteenth] century were perhaps the children's books published by Thomas Boreman in London in the early 1740s. These Gigantick Histories were thus entitled by their publisher because Boreman's bookshop was situated "near the two Giants in Guildhall," the famous Gog and Magog... It is generally assumed that Boreman was not only the publisher but also the author of these charming volumes which have of late not only become excessively rare but also very expensive. (Louis W. Bondy, Miniature Books, London, 1981, p.21)