Toronto Women’s Bookstore est la plus grande librairie féministe à but non lucratif au Canada jusqu’à sa fermeture en novembre 2012. Elle ouvre tout d’abord ses portes sur le site de Kensington Market, où elle est tout d’abord associée à une…
English This work by Amelot de la Hussaie was part of the personal library of marquis Jean-Jacques Costard de Brussard, who hailed from Normandy and was a musketeer. This ex-libris from the end of the 18th Century reminds us that collecting ex-libris…
Il s'agit de la deuxième édition du Manuel, imprimé par L'Association Étudiante de l'Université McGill, avant la fondation des Presses Santé de Montréal. Deux membres fondateurs de la presse, Allan Feingold et Donna Cherniak, ont fait partie de…
EnglishThe 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…
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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.
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Les pages de gardes du livre de…
EnglishThe 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…