Events, Exhibitions, and Sites of Interest
to Members of the Ticknor Society

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

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.