LIBRARY NOTES
Princeton University
Library & Art Museum Excursion
Tuesday, November 4, 1997 at 8:45 AM
Princeton University; $35 per person
This frontispiece by John Tiennel is from the suppressed edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (London, 1865). It will be on display at the Firestone Library's exhibition. Carol was dissatisfied with Tenniel's illustrations. Most of the copies were destroyed, but this rare copy is in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department.
The excursion will leave for Princeton University by bus at 8:45 a.m. from the New York Society Library and return by 6:00 p.m.
The first visit will be to the Rare Books and Special Collections Department at the Firestone Library. On display will be a variety of books, pamphlets, illustrations, games, toys and other materials relating to children's literature and amusements for the "young at heart." The impetus for the exhibition is a recent gift from Lloyd Cotsen (class of 1950), whose collection comprises 25,000 illustrated children's books. He has also provided funds for the creation of an interactive children's library, part of the exhibition, which will serve as an ongoing center for innovative research on how children learn.
Lunch will be at Prospect House, the residence of Princeton's presidents, including Woodrow Wilson during his tenure from 1902 until 1910, and now a social center for the University.
In the afternoon, the tour will continue on to the Art Museum where the current exhibition features post-World War II prints and photographs from the collection of James Kraft (class of 1957). The other exhibition galleries will include highlights from the permanent collections: Greek and Roman antiquities; Medieval European sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass; Western European paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; pre-Columbian art; and Chinese bronzes, tomb figures, paintings, and calligraphy.
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