WAYNE — The Cary Memorial Library October exhibit at the Williams House will feature “Treasures from the Cary Memorial Library Art Collection.”

Selections from the Elizabeth M. Hyatt Bookplate Collection, including intriguing correspondence as well as bookplates, and the wood carvings of Ellsworth Crosby will be exhibited at the Williams House, across the street from the library on Old Winthrop Road. This extraordinary exhibit will feature never displayed engraved plates collected in the ’20s and ’30s from famous collectors and artists such as Woodrow Wilson, Queen Alexandra, E.B. French, Rockwell Kent and more.

A preview and wine reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12. A limited number of tickets are now available at the library. Admission is $10. The exhibit will be open, free of charge, on Saturdays, Oct. 13, 20 and 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Thursdays, Oct. 18 and 25 from 2 to 6; Fridays, Oct. 19 and 26 from 10 to 2; and on Sunday, Oct. 21 from 2 to 4. Complimentary coffee, tea and cider will be available.

Notable guest speaker Ken Barnard will share recollections of his Grandmother Hyatt at an open reception on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 3 p.m. She and her daughter Petrovna Hyatt Barnard were much involved with the care of the bookplates from the years they spent at the lake cottage and when the Barnards lived next to the library in Wayne.

For information, call Jane Andrews at 685-3754 or the library at 685-3612.