English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton, the companion exhibit to the new book by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson, will open at The Grolier Club in New York on May 12, and run through July 26, 2008. The exhibition “examines the history of early English books, exploring how the English language came into print, with a close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books.”

Valerie Hotchkiss is the head of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Fred C. Robinson is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English and a librarian of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University.