The Vest-Pocket Shakespeare Set is a collection of forty miniature (3.5 cm x 5 cm) volumes containing Shakespeare’s complete works published by Allied Newspapers in 1934. The Special Collections Library at Illinois State University acquired the series in Summer 2016 (Call Number Z1033.M6 A45).
This site was created by the students in the Shakespeare Across Media course (ENG 222) at Illinois State University, Fall Semester 2016, and edited and designed by Katie Sall and Dr. Tara Lyons. For more on who we are, see “About Us.”
This site traces the history of the collection, providing information on
History of Shakespeare in Miniature
Vest-Pocket Shakespeare 