EnglishThe use of marbling reaches its pinnacle with this example, with its swirling motif, which appear to be created in a “freestyle” manner. Of special note with this work is the fact that the edges of the book have been decorated using a similar…
EnglishThis work displays the printer’s device of Simon de Colines. De Colines (ca. 1475-1546) was active in Paris from about 1520 until his death in 1546. De Colines had actually collaborated with printer Henri Estienne (1528-1598), continuing…
Premier numéro du premier volume de "Our Lives". Our Lives : Canada’s first Black Women’s newspaper est un journal avait pour objectif d’être une tribune offerte aux femmes noires pour témoigner de leur quotidien, échanger leur expérience, exprimer…
English This poster was designed by Beth Foster and Pat Colp to announce various activities organized to celebrate 1981 International Women’s Day in Toronto. Français Cette affiche a été créée par Beth Foster et Pat Colp afin d’annoncer les divers…
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…
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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 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…