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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8333px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8333px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; "></span>In 1939, Lewis and Dorothy Allen began printing beautiful limited edition books and other materials. For more than 50 years, this California couple printed on three hand-presses, including an 1830 Acorn-Smith, an Albion Press and a Columbian Press, and produced more than 50 stunning handmade books. Their work is highly revered for its elegance, creativity and content — which focuses on classics of literature and titles related t<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; ">o the history of California. In 1996 their talents were recognized when they received the Oscar Lewis Award for the Book Arts from the Book Club of California for a lifetime of fine printing.</span></span></div>
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This exhibition draws books, correspondence and printed ephemera from a private collection once owned by Edgar N. Meakin, a classmate of Lewis Allen's at the University of California, Berkeley, and good friend and neighbor; the materials remain with the Meakin family in Portland. Additional materials are borrowed from other public and private collections, and from the John Wilson Special Collections of Multnomah County Library. <br>
<br><b>Please joins us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, December 11, 2–3:30 p.m. with light refreshments and opening remarks by exhibition curator Jim Carmin.</b><br><br>The exhibition opens Saturday, December 11, 2010, and is in place until Sunday, January 16, 2011.<br>
<br>For more information click on: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174553199235333">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174553199235333</a> and <a href="http://multcolib.org/events/collins/allenpress.html">http://multcolib.org/events/collins/allenpress.html</a> or contact John Wilson Special Collections Librarian Jim Carmin, 503.988.6287.</span></span></div>