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La couverture du manuel des Presses de la santé de Montréal qui traitait de sujets liés à l'agression sexuelle.

Ceci est la 3e édition de la couverture de la publication des Presses de la santé de Montréal, de l'hiver 1984.

Cette édition de l'été 1993 de la publication Presses de la santé de Montréal présente un groupe de jeunes réunis autour du monument George-Étienne Cartier à Montréal, Québec.

Montage de quatre photographies de la bibliothèque mobile Cora. Les photographies sont issues du fonds Cora. Bookmobile (10-015).

EnglishThis is an example of paste paper, most specifically one generated with the “pull “(i.e. “pull-paper”) technique. A mixture of glue and colour pigments are applied with a brush to two sheets of paper that are imposed upon each other. Before…

EnglishThe printer’s device of Nicolo Pezzana (162?-170?) recalls that of the Giunta printers where Pezzana carried out part of his apprenticeship in Venice and which he ended in 1657. Without an inscription or personalized device, this mark depicts…

English The binding of this work has been elaborately blind-stamped with a number of decorative tools. Note the manuscript waste visible at the top of the spine; again, materials were reused wherever possible to add in the binding process, especially…

English This binding in blonde calf, with hand-tooled motifs generated by many decorative finishing tools, is an example of “fanfare” binding. A “frame” is generated by a series of straight lines tooled into the leather, while the covers are…

English This book is a post incunabula and was printed in 1512. It shows with more abundance, almost exaggeration, the use of printed ornamental initials of different sizes and formats. Français Cette page montre une utilisation abondante, voir…

EnglishThis image displays yet another example of a register of signatures, with the colophon appearing just be- low. Here we see the beauty and finesse of printed text as realised by Aldus Manutius, The italic font, the spacing of characters and the…