| Cary Graphic Arts Collection | |
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| 43°05′02″N 77°40′34″W / 43.08395°N 77.6761°W | |
| Location | 90 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5604, Henrietta, New York |
| Established | 1969 |
| Affiliation | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Director | Steven K. Galbraith |
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| Building | Wallace Library |
| Website | www |
The Cary Graphic Arts Collection is a library and archive of books, type specimens, manuscripts, documents, and artifacts related to the history of graphical communication. Located in Wallace Library at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in Henrietta, New York, the Cary Collection contains literate artifacts as old as cuneiform tablets and as recent as computer tablets and e-books, in all comprising some 40,000 volumes in addition to manuscripts, correspondence, printing types and traditional letterpress printing equipment.
A recent, newsworthy acquisition is the Albion hand press from the Kelmscott Press of William Morris.[1][2] The Cary Collection also possesses one of the rare copies (only 440 printed) of the extravagantly produced and illustrated Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, which the British Library has called "a new benchmark for book design at the end of the 19th century".[3] The Kelmscott Chaucer was hand printed on the Kelmscott Albion press which is also held in the Cary Collection.
- ^ RIT Wins Auction of the Kelmscott-Goudy Press, American Printing History Association, December 10, 2013.
- ^ Mature, Muscular, Literary and Available, New York Times, December 5, 2013.
- ^ Kelmscott Chaucer, British Library