Broward County Library's BIENES CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS,
announces the exhibition opening and publication of:
ABC BOOKS AND RELATED MATERIALS: Selections from the Nyr Indictor
Collection of the Alphabet
October 15, 2000 - January 15, 2001
The exhibit features 137 objects from the Bienes Center's collection
of approximately 2,000 alphabet books and related materials and is
arranged by language including: ARABIC, CAJUN, CHEROKEE, CHINESE,
DANISH, DUTCH, EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, ENGLISH, ESPERANTO, FINNISH,
FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, HEBREW, HINDI, HUNGARIAN, ITALIAN, JAPANESE,
KOREAN, NORWEGIAN, POLISH, PORTUGUESE, RUSSIAN, SERBO-CROATIAN, SIGN
LANGUAGE (English), SPANISH, SWAHILI, SWEDISH, THAI, UKRAINIAN, AND
YIDDISH.
More that two dozen formats are represented including: BOOKS,
ADVERTISEMENTS, ARTISTS' BOOKS, CARD GAMES, COOKIE CUTTERS, FLAGS,
GAMES, GREETING CARDS, JIGSAW PUZZLES, MINIATURE BOOKS, PAPER
WEIGHTS, POP-UP BOOKS, RUBBER STAMPS, SHOES, UMBRELLAS AND WRAPPING
PAPER. The earliest book on display is: #17, The English Primer;
or, An Easy introduction to reading, published in London in 1819; the
most recent is: #89, Some Alphabets: poems, prose and other: an
incomplete compilation of alphabetic writings / by Nyr Indictor,
published in Chappaqua, NY in 1998.
An accompanying $15.00 printed catalog will be available
November 1, 2000. The entire catalog will be mounted and available
on the Bienes Center's website as of Dec. 1, 2000: at
www.broward.org/bienes
ABC Books and Related Materials: Selections from the Nyr Indictor
Collection of the Alphabet, October 15, 2000-January 15, 2001 / [by]
James A. Findlay; essay by Nyr Indictor. -- Ft. Lauderdale, FL:
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, 2000. -- 70 p.: ill. ; 23 x 15.5
cm. -- (ISBN: 0-9678858-1-7)
[Includes: Preface; Essay by Nyr Indictor; References (Bibliography);
Exhibition Checklist; Names Index; Title, Sub-Title and Series Index;
Publishers Index; Index of Formats; Colophon]
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James A. Findlay
Librarian
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts
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