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Blue and black poster with white text and a picture of a volcano made of several heads with red hats.

This title, dating the end of the 19th century, offers the viewer a fine example of “combed” marble. The colours chosen in this example, however, are unusual and demonstrate the limitless creativity that surrounded the manufacturing of marbled paper…

This example shows the “mottled” style of marbling, attempting to reproduce the effect of natural stone, here in a spectacular combination of blue tones. The edges have been gilded and are in remarkable shape.

This is an early edition of the work by the Montreal Health Press' "VD Handbook," meant to educate (mostly) young audiences about how to protect themselves against Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

This cover represents the 1990 edition of the Montreal Health Press' publication.

This summer 1993 edition of the Montreal Health Press publication shows a group of young people gathered around the George-Étienne Cartier Monument in Montréal, Québec.

This collection of poetry from Québec poet, musician and actor Michel Garneau, is printed on loose leaves of paper and illustrated by Maureen Maxwell. All is housed in a leather “case” of a mosaic design, executed by artist Lise Rodrigue. This is…

This document, from the John A. Ivančo Fonds (20-020), consists of the the first page of the Milán Stefánik Literary Circle's statute, secretary and minute book, Oshawa (Ontario), 1935-1942

This image shows a very fine mottling scheme, where the white/cream colours are omnipresent on a background of red and blue. In this example, the dark colours had been deposited on the surface of the liquid mixture before the white. It is this last…

This binding shows a simulated marble effect, which has been styled as “Run or Prusian marble” by 18th century printer and binder James Coghlan in his Memorandum on the bookbinding trade, dating to 1764-65. The effect is generated by black ink and…