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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club April 1 through
May 29, 1998, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the death
of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Detailed
descriptions of books, manuscripts, letters, and other items, with
informative essays by leading Carroll experts.
The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of
Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and
rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals
that the story isn't so simple. Manuscript remained a vital,
effective, and even preferred forum for professional and amateur
authors working across fields such as literature, science,
politics, religion, and business through the Romantic period. The
contributors to this book offer a survey of the manuscript culture
of the time, discussing handwritten culinary recipes, the poetry of
John Keats, Benjamin Franklin's letters about his electrical
experiments, and more. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that
what has often been seen as the amateur, feminine, and aristocratic
world of handwritten exchange thrived despite the spread of the
printed word. In so doing, they undermine the standard
print-manuscript binary and advocate for a critical stance that
better understands the important relationship between the media.
Bringing together work from literary scholars, librarians, and
digital humanists, the diverse essays in After Print offer a new
model for archival research, pulling from an exciting variety of
fields to demonstrate that manuscript culture did not die out but,
rather, may have been revitalized by the advent of printing.
Contributors: Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University * Margaret J. M.
Ezell, Texas A&M University * Emily C. Friedman, Auburn
University * Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo * Michelle
Levy, Simon Fraser University * Marissa Nicosia, Penn State
Abington * Philip S. Palmer, Morgan Library and Museum * Colin T.
Ramsey, Appalachian State University * Brian Rejak, Illinois State
University * Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia * Andrew O.
Winckles, Adrian College
Catalogue of a Grolier Club exhibition of key works in Scottish
literature, held December 15, 1992 - February 20, 1993. Designed by
Jerry Kelly, printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition of 1000
copies.
One of the most important Italian manuscripts in the Getty Museum,
the lavishly illustrated Gualenghi d'Este Hours was created around
1649 on the occasion of the marriage of diplomat Andrea Gualengo to
Orsina d'Este, a member of Ferrara's ruling family. The devotional
manuscript featured brilliant figured decoration of the
suffrages--short prayers to saints--and was created by Taddeo
Crivelli, one of the most important manuscript illuminators of the
Renaissance.
This volume includes reproductions of all the illuminations in the
original manuscript plus selected text pages, each with commentary.
Kurt Barstow examines the book's vivid devotional imagery in
relation to works of art of the period that help explain the Hours
significance for the fifteenth-century patrons. This beautifully
illustrated book is published to coincide with an exhibit featuring
the manuscript that will take place at the Getty Museum from May 9
to July 30, 2000.
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