Two new titles on miniatures have been recently published.  Dictionnaire Des Peintres En Miniature: Actifs En France (1650-1850) by Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, is in French. It features only signed miniatures, is  560 pages, with 1200 illustrations, and includes a foreword from Pierre Rosenberg, of the French Academy, and Honorary President of the Louvre. ISBN 978-2-85017-468-2.

The other title is Die Welt der Bildnisminiatur: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Emil S. Kern, by Bodo Hofstetter. It is in German, is 200 pages, and features 72 English and European portrait miniatures from the Dr. E.S. Kern collection, which was donated in 1998 to the Winterthur Museum, in Switzerland.   brinerundkern@win.ch  ISBN 978-3-7165-1485-6.