In addition to the fascinating items we have on exhibition here at our 150 Empire St. location, you can now see PPL Special Collections material at three other locations across the city:

At the RISD Fleet Library (through March 30, 2012), check out Dard Hunter & the Roycroft Print Shop, curated by Robert Garzillo. The exhibition is staged in the downstairs library and upstairs outside of Special Collections. Look for Roycrofters material from our Updike Collection.

Tomorrow at the Providence Athenaeum, the "Wilde at Heart" celebration begins (a limited number of tickets are available), and it will include an exhibition of Wilde materials. Among them you'll find volumes like the first edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol from PPL Special Collections.

And through May, the John Carter Brown's exhibition hall will be filled with items illustrating Lawrence Wroth's classic The Colonial Printer (which is to say many great examples of early American printing). The first edition of The Colonial Printer was itself printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and punches, matrices and type designed for Updike will be on display in the exhibition.

That's a busy schedule of excellent exhibitions. You should probably get started right away.