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English Here we see the remnants of the leather straps that would have served to keep the book closed. More often than not, these fragile closures have not stood the test of time Français On voit ici un reste d’attaches qui servaient à fermer le…

Autocollants créés dans les années 1980 par CALAS le Centre d’aide et de lutte contre les agressions sexuelles de l’Outaouais.

EnglishElizabeth Flesher was the widow of printer James Flesher (? - 1670), himself son of printer Miles Flesher. The Fleshers, father and son, were most renowned for their printing of Arabic texts, so it would be quite appropriate for this text…

EnglishBringing to life the adage of “waste not, want not”, this book’s binding is made of parchment that originally was someone’s correspondence. With paper and leather being expensive commodities due to the ever-increasing amount of titles being…

EnglishAn ex-libris embossed on a leather over was one way of indicating ownership of a book. In this example, however, we do not see a familial coat of arms, as can be seen in image no.8, but the “Quebec Library” choosing to simply spell out its…

EnglishThis is a herstory account of International Women's Day.FrançaisCe document constitue un résumé de l'histoire de la Journée Internationale des Femmes selon la British Columbia Federation of Women.

EnglishThe marbling technique for this decorative paper has been achieved with the use of the comb tool. The colours used are also date to the mid-19th century and are not the classic and uniform blues, reds, yellows and whites colours typical of the…

EnglishThis title by Bounhours demonstrates the reuse of the materials by bookbinders. In this particular case, a very refined and aesthetically pleasing handwriting adds to the charm of this “recycled” bookbinding. The hand is unknown; does it stem…

En 1971, le livret Women and Their Bodies change de nom et s’intitule désormais Our Bodies, Ourselves. L’ouvrage est republié par la New England Free Press. Il place désormais la santé des femmes dans un contexte politique et social radicalement…

EnglishThis 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”…