Dollhouse Decorating – Queen Mary's Dolls House Library

 

Queen Mary’s Dollhouse is the largest and most famous dollhouse in the world. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is an aristocratic Edwardian home in miniature, complete with fully furnished rooms, electricity, running water and working elevators. Miniature wine bottles actually contain the vintage promised on the labels. The toilets flush.

Click on the above image to visit the Royal Collection Trust and information about the Queen's doll's house.

The 171-volume library contains some short works which were authored specifically for the dollhouse. Each miniature book is about 
the size of a postage stamp; most are bound in leather.

One of the volumes will soon be published in “human size.” It is a the fairy story contained within “J Smith” by Fougasse, the pen name of Cyril Kenneth Bird, one of the leading cartoonists of the day. The book

tells the story of a fairy, Joe Smith, who falls out of Fairyland one stormy night and lands in London. He has a very bad time of it and returns to his friends in Fairyland, where lives happily-ever-after, of course.

A picture of 2 pages from that book is below. When you look at that tiny script, remember the page is the size of a postage stamp.

Click on either image to see a great video about the entire Queen Mary's Doll's House.