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EnglishThis exquisite binding in red morocco is a modern binding, probably dating to 350-400 years after the book was initially printed. Tooled and stamped in gilt, with elaborately gilded edges, this was a binding executed for someone with a love of…

EnglishA Venetian, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari (1508-1578), established a bookstore and printing shop in Venice with his father, named “Liberia del Fenice” (the Phoenix bookstore). As we have seen with other printer’s devices, the mark may illustrate…

EnglishA further example of paste paper where the colour scheme has been generated by the “pulled” technique. In this case, one clearly sees the “pulling” or stretching effect that the glue has undergone in producing this design.  This example…

EnglishMany hands and many quills have annotated this work by Jerome de Hangest, a theologian hailing from Compiègne and a contemporary of Erasmus. The marginalias annotation, as is the text itself, are in Latin, which would indicate a certain amount…

EnglishA binding of parchment on cardboard, this binding has had its blind-stamped ornamentations coloured black. Its title has also been handwritten in ink on the spine. Note the demi-lune shape of the textblock’s fore-edge: this is a technique…

EnglishThis 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…

Charte canadienne des droits et libertés

Déclaration canadienne des droits

EnglishThis 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…

Ce document, du Fonds John A. Ivančo (20-020), comprend la première page du régistre des statuts et des procès-verbaux de l'organisme Milán Štefánik Literary Circle, Oshawa (Ontario), 1935-1942.