HIGHLIGHTS
FROM BRIDWELL LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries,
Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology,
June 7 – August 13, 2010
NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRAYER BOOKS
The final section of the exhibition features a variety of nineteenth-century publications that offered an especially handsome or innovative presentation of traditional prayer texts. Several of the books demonstrate how European and North American printers responded to the increasingly mechanical aspects of nineteenth-century book production by offering fine typography or rich programs of illustration; others reveal how the addition of an elegant binding likewise enhanced the reader’s experience of the prayers.
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