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Elements of Book Design and Illustration

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The Miriam Snow Mathes Historical Children's Literature Collection


Introduction

Elements of Book Design and Illustration was exhibited in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives from April - November 2002. All materials in the exhibit were curated from the holdings of the Miriam Snow Mathes Historical Children's Literature Collection by two University at Albany School of Information Science and Policy graduate students, Tracy Salvage and Karen Grimwood. The Mathes Collection includes over 10,000 children's books and periodicals published in the 19th century and up to 1950. The central purpose of the Mathes Collection is to provide the texts of works that are generally no longer available in children's library collections today-and to make them available for historical, literary and cultural study and consultation by scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and the interested public.

This online exhibit includes selected images from among the over sixty titles included in the initial exhibit. Its goal is to highlight design and illustrations used in children's literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Special design features include a rich variety of endpapers, frontispieces, head- and tailpieces, and decorated initials. Illustrations were selected for their visual appeal and to convey the range of artistic styles and media inherent in antique children's books.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales and Wonder Stories

The exhibit is divided into the following sections:

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Exhibit curated by Tracy Salvage, Art Project Assistant, and Karen Grimwood, Collection Management Assistant, under the direction of David Mitchell, Curator pro bono of the Miriam Snow Mathes Historical Children's Literature Collection
Digital Exhibit by Amy C. Schindler, Curator of Manuscripts
Comments to the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives Staff

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