A GREAT EXHIBIT

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY
Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe

February 1 through May 3, 2010
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries
Bridwell Library
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
6005 Bishop Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75275-0476

This exhibition focus on unique features in sixty of Bridwell Library's most significant fifteenth-century printed books, revealing various ways in which early owners added rubrication, illumination, bindings, annotations, inscriptions, and other signs of ownership and use.

View the online version of the exhibition at:
http://smu.edu/bridwell/specialcollections/I&DIntro.htm

In conjunction with the exhibition is a lecture by Scott Husby, retired Princeton University Library rare book conservator:

Traveling Texts:
What bookbindings tell us about fifteenth-century printed books

March 2, 2010
6:30 p.m.
Reception to follow.
Bridwell Library Benefactors Room

For further information call
214-768-3483
or view the website:
http://smu.edu/bridwell