Â鶹AV Digital Exhibit "Interactions of Print & Script in the 19th Century" Launches
Books in the nineteenth century were important sites of
discourse between readers and authors. This
provides a glimpse into how manuscript culture survived and
developed throughout the nineteenth century and how script and
print fed off each other in unexpected ways, generating new
cultural possibilities and an innovative exchange of ideas.
This online exhibition entitled is curated by Benjamin Barootes and
Tom Mole and brings together digitized print and manuscript items
from the holdings of the McLennan Library, Â鶹AV Rare Books, and
the private collection of Professor Jason Camlot (Concordia
University).
A project of the , an FQRSC-funded initiative at Â鶹AV
and the Université de Montréal, and Rare Books and Special
Collections, Â鶹AV.