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A memo sent out by the Anti-Racism Work Group about their services.

The front flyleaf has an elaborate inscription that is quite illegible due to its flamboyant handwriting. We do see the initial sentence “Souvenir de Pierre Grospin, dit le vieux grognard à M. Ballard.” These novellas parodying the bacchanalian seem…

This poster was designed by the International Women’s Day Committee of Toronto for the 1979 International Women’s Day. The main image is based on a Queen of Hearts playing card. The theme of the year was “Jobs and Rights for Women!”. Women’s were…

The endpapers of this accounting “textbook” by François Barrême, a very popular work in its time, was used by its owner to puzzle out practical exercises of calculation, including problems and answers.

The pages that serve to form the inner boards of this work are actually composed of printer’s waste (printed sheets that could not be used by the printer or binder in a final copy). Boards of this nature were created by gluing several sheets of paper…

This poster was designed by Beth Foster and Pat Colp to announce various activities organized to celebrate 1981 International Women’s Day in Toronto.

A flyer for a rally and march for International Women's Day March 8, 1986

This work displays the printer’s device of Simon de Colines. De Colines (ca. 1475-1546) was active in Paris from about 1520 until his death in 1546. De Colines had actually collaborated with printer Henri Estienne (1528-1598), continuing printing…

The use of marbling reaches its pinnacle with this example, with its swirling motif, which appear to be created in a “freestyle” manner. Of special note with this work is the fact that the edges of the book have been decorated using a similar…

This shows us a variation in the rendering of roman numerals. Using a format scholar Paul Lewis calls “deep parenthesis”, an “I” flanked between by both a forward facing C and an upside down, backward facing C, would represent “1000”. And “I” before…