Lecture on Alice C. Morse

The New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers is pleased to
present an illustrated lecture by Mindy Dubansky on book designer
Alice C. Morse (1863-1961).

In 1997, Dubansky, librarian and conservator at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art,  discovered a trove of cover designs by Morse in a
storage area at the Museum.   Like her contemporaries, Sarah Wyman
Whitman and Margaret Armstrong, Morse designed wonderful bindings,
emblematic of the American Decorative Arts Movement.  Over a
ten-year period, Dubansky collected 80 published books designed by
Morse and recently, curated a exhibition on Morse's life and work at
the Grolier Club.  She has written a book about Morse, The Proper
Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse.

Please join us to hear a delightful speaker describe her findings
about an important designer from an exciting period of book
publishing.

The talk will talk place Thursday, May 8, 2008 at the Schlesinger
Library at 6 pm.  Free and open to the public.  Books will be
available for sale.

Directions can be found at

    <URL:http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/600.aspx>


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