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Broward County Main Library’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book: The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, presents an exhibition from the collections of the members of the Fontaneda Society: Book Collectors of South Florida. The exhibit will be on view in the Bienes Museum’s galleries on the sixth floor of the Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from January 17 - March 14, 2008.

 

Highlighted in the exhibition are selected items from the following collection subject areas: 18^{th -} and 19^th- century cookbooks; children’s books by Pennsylvania artists and authors; letterpress books from the Golden Hind Press; ABC books; ballet books and memorabilia; Cleveland Amory printed memorabilia; United States regional bibliography and subject literature; books by and about Frank Lloyd Wright; artists’ books; books about books and collecting; and books on jazz discography.

 

Please also visit the virtual exhibition: http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/fontanedaexhibition.html

 

The Fontaneda Society serves the interests of booklovers through studies in book collecting, fine printing and related graphic arts, bookbinding and the many amenities of book design, typography and bibliography. The Society is an independent group of book collectors that draws many of its members from the south Florida counties of Broward; Miami-Dade; and Palm Beach, although it also has other Florida and national members.

 

The Society is a member of the prestigious Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS), an association of other book collectors groups throughout the United States that shares ideas and information on the book arts.

 

The Society’s meetings are held the third Thursday of the month from October to May at 7 p.m., at Broward County Main Library’s, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book. The meetings are free and open to the public

 

For more information on membership and future meetings, please visit the Fontaneda Society’s webpage at: http://www.meetup.com/   and enter Fontaneda in the search box

 

James (Jim) A. Findlay

Bienes Museum Librarian

Broward County Library -- Main Library

954-357-8692 (office)

954-357-6762 (fax)

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Main Library

Bienes Museum of the Modern Book

The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library

100 S. Andrews Ave.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

 

www.broward.org/library/bienes_about.htm

 

Fontaneda Society: Book Collectors of South Florida: Members' Exhibition

January 17-March 14, 2008

 

Please visit the virtual exhibition at:

 

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/fontanedasociety.html