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Cette petite affiche annonce la programmation d’une conférence d’Angela Davis proposée à l’occasion de la Journée International des femmes de 1985. Angela Davis fut invitée par le « Committee for March 8 » de Toronto. Angela Davis activiste et alors…

Englishhe smaller size of the comb that is passed through the coloured solution. The smallness of the comb allows for the creation of the spiral designs in this particular pattern. Adding to the aesthetic beauty of this item are the gilt edges.…

Plusieurs manuels des Presses de la Santé de Montréal.

English This poster announces the International Women’s Day activities in Toronto for 1986. The poster shows three women’s head place on each other. The theme of the year was the opposition to racism in Canada and in the world. Français Cette affiche…

English The binding seen here is characteristic of the style of leather bindings where the calf leather is manipulated to give it texture. In this example, the leather is stained with drops of diluted acid to give the binding a mottled look. There…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…