Lecture on medieval bookbinding structures

On Thursday, August 7, 1997, at 5:00 p.m., Christopher Clarkson will
present an illustrated lecture with the title: "An Introduction to
Medieval Bookbinding Structures," in Room 101, McCormick Hall (same
building as the Art Museum), on the Princeton University campus.  A
reception immediately following the lecture will be held in the Main
Exhibition Gallery, Firestone Library, a short walk away.

The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton
University Library and the Preservation Office and the Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library,
and it is open to members of the University community and the
general public.

Christopher Clarkson directs the Book and Manuscript Conservation
Workshops and their related internship program at West Dean College,
Sussex, England. Formerly Conservation Officer at the Bodleian
Library, Oxford University, he also helped develop rare book
conservation programs at the Library of Congress.  An
internationally renowned consultant on the care of medieval
manuscripts and bindings, he went to Florence, Italy, as part of an
English disaster recovery team responding to the mass destruction of
books and other cultural property caused by the flooding of the Arno
River in November 1966. He has also taught a course in medieval and
Renaissance bookbinding structures at Rare Book School at the
University of Virginia (and earlier at Columbia University) since
1983.

We hope that you can join us for this event.

Robert J. Milevski
Preservation Librarian
Princeton University Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-5591
Fax: 609-258-4105

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