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-----Original Message----- Apologies for cross-posting: An exciting roster of public events is being planned in connection with the Grolier Club exhibition "Printing for Kingdom, Empire, & Republic: Treasures from the Archives of the Imprimerie Nationale," on show from December 7, 2011 - February 4, 2012. (For more details on the exhibition itself, see "Forthcoming Exhibitions" under "Exhibitions" on the homepage of the Grolier Club website: www.grolierclub.org) December 7, 8, 9, at 3 pm: Demonstrations of printing processes by experts from the Imprimerie Nationale's Atelier du Livre d'Art et de l'Estampe (ALAE): Wednesday, December 7 - Nelly Gable (Head of the Cabinet de Poinçons, ALAE/IN, and one of the last remaining punch-cutters) will give a demonstration of punch-cutting, striking/justification of matrices, and typecasting Thursday, December 8 - Elena Ceneda (Compositor for Oriental Typefaces, ALAE/IN) will give demonstrate hand composition of oriental/non-Latin fonts Friday, December 9 - Franck Jalleau (Type Designer, ALAE/IN) will demonstrate the digitization of proprietary typefaces December 13, 14, 15, at noon: Lunchtime tours of the exhibition by curator H. George Fletcher. December 14, at 6 pm: Club Meeting. Curator H. George Fletcher will speak about the exhibition. January 17, 18, 19, at 2 pm: Lunchtime tours of the exhibition by Lucile Theveneau, Head of Publications and Exhibitions at the Imprimerie Nationale's Atelier du Livre d'Art et de l'Estampe (ALAE). January 24: Day-long colloquium -- "The Imprimerie Nationale and the History of Printing." 9:30 am-5 pm in Florence Gould Hall and Tinker Auditorium, French Institute/Alliance Française, 22 East 60th Street (across the street from The Grolier Club), with reception to follow at the Club. For more details, and a preliminary roster of presentations, click here. To register online, visit the homepage of the Grolier Club website (www.grolierclub.org) and click under "Colloquium Registration" in the navigation menu. Eric Holzenberg Director The Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street New York, NY 10022 phone: 212/838-6690 ext. 1 fax: 212/838-2445 e-mail: [log in to unmask] website: www.grolierclub.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~