Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — A Large Book. [ARTICLE]

A Large Book.

In one of the recent of Harper’s Young People a short sketch appeared describing the smallest book probably in existence. As an offset to this it will doubtless interest the reader to know of a certain famous copy of the Koran, or bible of the Moslems. This book’s enormous size has given it a great reputation. It is something like five -feet long by three feet wide. The letters or characters average three inches in height, and the book itself is about a foot in thickness. It is jealously guaried, and although a religious book still it would be rather amusing to watch the efforts of a .couple of full grown men opening it, for all the world like one would open the flap doors of a cellar, the binding being, literally, in boards. The labor of preparing such a work covered a period of six years.