An upcoming exhibition on the work of American writer John Updike will open on Friday, May 1st, 2009, on the 1st floor of M.D. Anderson Library. The exhibition will draw on more than 200 items held by the UH Libraries' Special Collections, including first editions, signed editions, photographs, and broadsides.
The leopard! The unicorn! The sea-horse! Animals both real and imaginary may be viewed in this exhibit of woodcuts from Edward Topsell’s The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes and The Historie of Serpents. The two magnificently illustrated books were originally published in 1607 and 1608. In 1658, they were reissued as part of a three-volume work, The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, a copy of which is owned by the University of Houston Libraries.
