A Lady and Her Books; the biography of Doris Varner Welsh / by Kathryn I. Rickard. - Montreal QC: Editions du Parnasse, 1988. - 84 p.; 73x 55 mm., ill. - ISBN 2892770300.
Bound in marbled paper boards with cloth corners and spine by Gaumerd-Poirier. Marbled paper by Michele Simard. Published in a limited edition of 150 copies by Roger Huet.
About Doris Varner Welsh and her Le Petit Oiseau Press. Doris V. Welsh, born 1907, has worked as a cataloguer at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She was book lover, printer and collector of miniature books. For all of her fifteen books she used a 4 point Century Expanded. She also published scientific works, e.g. Checklist of Philippine Linguistics and Checklist of French Political Pamphlets (1560-1644)
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