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The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston
Boston Public Library
December 17, 2009 - March 10, 2010

Many people may be surprised to learn that Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston. Mounted at the end of the Poe bicentennial year, the upcoming Boston Public Library exhibit, The Raven in the Frog Pond, uses materials from the Library's collections and elsewhere to tell the story of Poe's relation to the city of his birth. In its approach to Poe biography, the exhibit reviews the facts and presents information about Poe's time here. It engages urban legends that have grown up around the Poe-Boston story. It considers what Boston has done or failed to do to celebrate this native author. And it takes a close look at Poe's quarrel with Boston literary figures, seeing it as both a personal conflict and a turning point in the development of American culture. More information

On the Edge: the Hidden Art of Fore-edge Book Painting
http://foreedge.bpl.org/

The Boston Public Library is pleased to announce that its collection of fore-edge paintings has been digitized and is accessible through a new website, a project made possible by a generous gift from Anne and David Bromer. Public/expert comments are invited through the comments button located in each individual fore-edge painting record.

Detail from Hans Sachsens ausgewahlte werke, 1961, copy in a signed designer binding by Canadian binder Annegret Hunter-Elsenbach with paintings on the three fore edges (Boston Public Library, PT1761 .M4 1961)

Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books (PBO)
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/

In September 2003, The University of Alabama, University Libraries, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, received an IMLS National Leadership grant to create this digital resource, a significant digital collection of decorative bindings, along with a comprehensive glossary and guide to the elements of these objects. The project will afford students, teachers, binders, and scholars in many different areas the opportunity to study up to 5,000 decorative bindings from two different physical collections in a single, virtual location.

We are pleased to list events of interest to our membership and to which we are invited. Members should send suggestions for inclusion to cruikshank1@comcast.net

We are pleased to list events of interest to our membership and to which we are invited.
Members should send suggestions for inclusion to cruikshank1@comcast.net