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Course Meeting Times
Mon. 1:00pm - 3:45pm, HRC 2.212 Feldman Room
Course Description
Utilizing primary source materials from the Harry Ransom HumanitiesResearch Center, the course will offer an introduction to the Book Arts. The student will become familiar with specialized research tools and techniques that are daily utilized by Special Collections Librarians, rare book dealers and collectors. The course seeks to foster a sense of connoisseurship in the Books Arts in the broadest sense, including (but not limited to) the medieval manuscript, Incunabula and other early printed books, Gothic and Renaissance bookbindings, emblem books of the 17th-century, the French Illustrated book (18th-century), English Color-Plate Books (19th-century), the English Private Press movement, Children's Books, Modern Illustrated books. Throughout the course the relationship between the antiquarian book trade, private collectors, and Special Collections Libraries will be explored.
Professor: Michael Laird
Teaching Assistant: Doug Rice
Last Modified: August 30 2009 15:05:34.
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