The Exhibition Catalogue Awards for 1991

Abstract

Fifty-one catalogues were submitted for the 1991 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Awards for Excellence. This is the sixth year that these awards have been presented and there was a slight decrease in the number of catalogues submitted, there being 57 in the previous year.

As in the past, entrants spanned a broad range of topics and level of coverage. However, with the notion of competition now firmly established among the entrants, there has been a noticeable rise in the physical and intellectual quality of the catalogues submitted. In fact, the judging . . .