In this video I show the “behind-the-scenes” of planning a library exhibit. I’m creating this for getting our staff and students in the Halloween Spirit! Did you know Massey College has a history of ghosts?
Books Mentioned/Discussed:
High Spirits by Robertson Davies
A Meeting of Minds, The Massey College Story by Judith Skelton Grant
“Vizetelly & Compan(ies) A Complex Tale of Victorian Printing and Publishing” - Exhibition Catalogue by Marie Korey
Books in the Exhibit Case:
Cover. In the Valley of the Shadow, by Bram Stoker. Wood Engravings by George Walker.
Cover. High Spirits, A Collection of Ghost Stories by Robertson Davies, The Viking Press:1982
“Title Page.” Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Illustrated by Barry Moser. 1984.
Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers. Part of The Ingoldsby Legends.
“Bernardino Genga, Anatomia, ‘engraving,’ 1691. Dance of Death A Graphic Commentary on the Danse Macabre Through the Centuries. by Fritz Eichenberg. New York: Abbeville Press. Page 41. 1983
“The Witches’ Frolic.” The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby. Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard. Page 173. 1856.
Cover. The Spirit-World by Florence Marryat. London: F.V. White & Co., 1896.
“The Fall of the House of Usher.” Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Wood Engraving by Fritz Eichenberg. New York: Random House. Page 378. 1944
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