H ALCYON THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY

ISSUE No. 62, December 2018 ISSN 0840–5565

SPECIAL DONORS’ ISSUE Floreat Bibliophilia | My ‘Format’ Collection | The Book that Heralded a Psychological Turn in the West | Evolution of a Collector | The Richard Gerald Landon- Marie Elena Korey Fund | Foxe and Company | Hermann’s Album | A Philosophical Approach to Collecting | Manuscript Gifts in 2017 | Donors of Gifts-in- Kind to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2017 | The Medieval Book: The Third Fisher Library Summer Seminar | Events and Exhibitions 2

Floreat Bibliophilia Loryl MacDonald Interim Associate Chief Librarian for Special Collections and Director, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

he word ‘bibliophile’, of course, Library. We are pleased to acknowledge 2017 means ‘a lover of books’. The classic gifts-in-kind from over one hundred donors, bibliophile is someone who loves to collectively totaling $1,988,332.50 in monetary Tread and collect books, often compiling a value. The 2017 donations were varied, reflect- specialized collection. Bibliophiles collect ing the teaching and research undertaken at books because they enjoy the narratives in the University of Toronto. They ranged from them. They also cherish books as fascinating a 1542 English edition of The Workes of Geffray objects in themselves, objects with their own Chaucer, to ephemera, pamphlets, and books stories to tell. At the Thomas Fisher Rare Book related to Thomas Hardy, early Canadian Library, we are fortunate to meet bibliophiles cookbooks, and a collection of the works of on a daily basis, each with their own compelling Colin Wilson. Unfortunately, it is not possible stories about their collecting passions. And to detail every donation, but a list of gift-in- so, we decided to devote this Halycon to the kind donors is found in this issue. voices of some remarkable bibliophiles — our I wish to thank our Head of Rare Books donors. Peter Blayney, Adam Crabtree, Garrett and Special Collections, Pearce Carefoote, and Herman, Marie Korey, Andrew Patenall, the Fisher Rare Book Library staff for foster- Barbara Tangney, and F. Michael Walsh tell us ing donor connections. I also acknowledge their stories about what ignited their passion for David Fernández for so ably assisting with books, why they chose their subject interests, the donation process. Above all, we are very and what their collecting habits look like. In grateful to our benefactors. The Thomas Fisher addition to our special guest writers, Jennifer Rare Book Library’s rich collections have been Toews and Natalya Rattan describe this year’s strengthened through donations of books, gifts of archives and literary papers. manuscripts, archives, maps, and prints. This The fall issue of The Halcyon is traditionally issue of The Halcyon is a tribute to our Friends’ an overview of the past year’s gift-in-kind generosity — and to bibliophiles everywhere. donations to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Floreat bibliophilia. Special Donors’ Section 3

Having spent most of my adult life as I then had two octavos to choose an independent scholar, underpaid from, one of them being a distinctly when paid at all, I have never been defective copy of the 1587 edition of able to collect antiquarian books in William Baldwin’s Treatise of Morall a serious way. But over the years Philosophie in an unattractive mod- I have spent a lot of time explor- ern cloth binding and wanting quires ing bookshops, and every now A, C, and E, and leaves D8 and MY ‘FORMAT and again found something both Cc7–8. Instead, in front of Brooke I interesting and affordable (though would usually stand a vellum-bound usually ‘working copies’ that were octavo (exactly half the size of the COLLECTION’ either slightly or more extensively quarto) that I originally acquired for defective). I have, however, also actual use as a reference book: a parted with most of them: occasion- 1609 edition of John Rastell’s dic- ally selling, but more often giving tionary of obscure legal terms (An By Peter W. M. Blayney specific items to people whose spe- Exposition of…Termes of the Lawes cial interests ‘deserved’ them more of This Realme) in both Law French than mine did. By the time I moved and English. In front of that, on its to Toronto in 2000 I had compara- fore-edge like the quarto, I would tively few left. Those few included place a seriously defective book in ten books that I thought of as my sixteens, half the size of the octavo ‘Format Collection’, kept because and amateurishly bound in boards on the increasingly rare occasions covered with black cloth. A 1579 when I taught Bibliography, I used edition of John Stow’s Summarie them to illustrate how formats reflect of the Chronicles of England, this the number of leaves into which the was apparently once owned by a printed sheets were folded. One of Catholic who discarded the reigns of these books I gave to the Fisher two Henry VIII and his successors before years ago. More recently, I decided rebinding it, and who signalled a to look up the other nine in the online preference for the Yorkists by writing English Short-Title Catalogue — and ‘Richard our most gracious king’ discovered that no copies of any of beside the last running-title of the them were listed in any Canadian reign of Richard III. library. So I decided to rectify that My only book in 32° was printed situation. on a larger size of paper, which In class, I would begin my pres- therefore rather spoiled the entation by standing a calf-bound sequence and had to stand on its small folio on the desk: usually own. Printed in Paris in 1648 to be William Burton’s Description of exported to English recusants, it is Leicester Shire, 1622 (a book that A New Edition of the Introduction interrupted the printing of the First to a Devout Life by St Francis of Folio in William Jaggard’s printing Sales (but lacking the leaf with his house), which I donated in 2016 portrait). during the Shakespeare celebra- Returning to English ‘pot’ paper tions. To show that the leaves of a (a size so called because often quarto were exactly half the size of watermarked with a picture of a those of a folio, I would then stand pot), I had a choice between two a parchment-bound quarto on its duodecimos. One is a slightly fore-edge in front of the folio: Ralph defective 1584 edition of Thomas à Brooke’s A Discoverie of Certaine Kempis’s Of the Imitation of Christ Errours…in [Camden’s] Britannia, in a comparatively modern binding. 1594. This book started a quarrel The one I usually showed instead between Brooke and his fellow her- is a calf-bound compilation of ten alds, which eventually led to their books of Latin epigrams by John publication in 1622 of A Discoverie Owen. Two publications in one, part of Errours in [Brooke’s] Catalogue of this was printed by John Legate of Nobility. (As it happens, the in 1612 as the third edition of a col- printing of that book in 1622 also lection of four ‘books’, and part by interrupted the First Folio.) Nicholas Okes as the first edition of 4 Special Donors’ Section

six comparable ‘books’ in the same Sufferings, 1649. This copy wants of Stationers. Printed in 1783, this is used by a child, it is a marvel that year. Okes also printed a general the two plates that should follow a pirated edition with the delightfully it has survived at all. title-page for the whole collection A1 and G7, and the removal of the cheeky imprint, ‘London: Printed I acquired it at a book fair in on the final leaf of his volume. Some latter was probably responsible for for a Company of Stationers’ (my Maryland in the late 1980s, where copies of each part have survived the loss of leaves G5–8. italic). It is complete, including the it contained a slip simply marked as separate items; some combined The gem of this rather patchy frontispiece woodcut of a teacher ‘10’. Unwilling to believe, I asked ‘Is copies have the collective title in its ‘collection’ is a much later book in and his class. The binding must be this really ten dollars?’ Mistaking the proper place; others (including the a much rarer format: 36° in twelves. contemporary. The boards are of cause of my incredulity, the vendor copy in question) still have it as the That means that each printed sheet fragile scaleboard: what one might replied, ‘Well, I know it’s in pretty final leaf rather than the first. had thirty-six pages printed on each describe as thin softwood ‘veneer’, poor shape—but if I reduce it any Half the size of a duodecimo side, was cut into three pieces, and prevented from splitting along the more I’ll hardly make any profit at (though printed on slightly larger that each piece was then folded to grain by having paper pasted to one all.’ I tried not to dive for my wallet paper, and not the shape of half a make a quire of twelve leaves. The side (like the material from which too quickly. The English Short-Title 12°) is a book in twenty-fours: one of book itself is a children’s school- matchboxes once used to be made). Catalogue records only two other the many editions of Eikon Basilike: book: The Primer or Catechism, The boards (of which the lower is copies, neither as well-preserved The Pourtracture of His Sacred Set Forth Agreeable to the Book missing a corner) are stitched to the as this one. Majestie (the recently beheaded of Common Prayer, of which the bookblock in a bizarrely complex Charles I) in His Solitudes and copyright belonged to the Company fashion. If this frail copy was ever

OPENING PAGE: Title page of William Burton’s Description of Leicester Shire. ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Page from John Stow’s Summarie of the Chronicles of England, with notation ‘Richard our most gracious king’ beside the last running-title of the reign of Richard III. Opening pages of The Primer or Catechism, Set Forth Agreeable to the Book of Common Prayer. Special Donors’ Section 5

The Psychical Research Collection housekeeper with the same dental donated to the Thomas Fisher Rare malady, to which he gave equally Book Library has a broad mandate speedy relief. to make available books that reveal His next subject would prove ideas and movements that affect to be the one who would provide how we see the extraordinary as the occasion for Puységur to move it manifests itself in the human beyond the framework of the heal- THE BOOK THAT spirit. It is not limited to those ing ideas of his teacher, Mesmer, rogue phenomena that one usu- and strike out in a new and surpris- ally identifies as paranormal, but ing direction. He was asked to see HERALDED A embraces all manifestations of if he could use animal magnetism what is deepest and most striking to heal a twenty-three-year-old field in human life. For that reason, it worker on his estate, a young man should not be surprising that the named Victor Race, of an illness PSYCHOLOGICAL centrepiece of the collection is a that had kept him bed-ridden for book that chronicles one of the four days. His symptoms were a most important discoveries in the congested chest, a stitch in his TURN IN THE history of western culture relating side, a spitting of blood, and fever. to the psychological dynamic of Puységur came into the sickroom at human interactions. That book is eight o’clock that night and began WEST the main feature of a story that is to ‘magnetize’ him. Briefly, his well worth telling. approach was to move his hands in In a period of six weeks in the sweeping gestures over the young summer of 1784, a young provincial man’s body, both with contact By Adam Crabtree French aristocrat made a discovery and at a distance. He viewed his that would significantly change the hands as the two magnetic poles course of Western culture. Armand of his body, possessed with the Marie Jacques de Chastenet, properties of a magnet. With an Marquis de Puységur, member of a attitude not taught by Mesmer, he renowned military family, had turned concentrated his mental intention thirty-three that spring, and he on doing good and benefiting the decided that he would spend some health of the magnetic subject. At time in Paris in order to take part the same time, he paid attention to in a seminar taught by the famous his personal intuitive sense of what but quirky Austrian physician, Franz the young man needed and tried to Anton Mesmer. He hoped to learn bring about conditions that would from him his sensationally novel meet that need. He was guided by healing technique, dubbed ‘animal Mesmer’s notion that there is a magnetism’. He had paid the fee, ‘magnetic fluid’ that pervades the and, in the company of a number universe and moves with an ebb and of a few eager fellow aristocrats, flow in all living things. If that flow signed up for an educational diver- is impeded, the person becomes sion that they thought might prove ill. Mesmer believed that the mag- to be entertaining. netic healer was able channel this Puységur stuck with the course cosmic fluid and direct it toward and soon after was on his way home the blocked areas of the subject’s to his estate near Buzancy. On 8 body. The magnetic passes were May, after a few days of resting intended to break up those blocks up from his Parisian adventure, he to the natural flow, and thus restore decided he would try out his newly- the patient to health. acquired skill and find some willing In Victor’s case, in addition to subjects in need of help. After suc- applying the magnetic passes, cessfully applying ‘magnetic passes’ Puységur felt he needed to get for ten minutes to relieve a nasty him to move around, expend toothache of the daughter of his energy, and sweat. He had him estate manager, the word spread imagine himself attending a party, among the servants, and he was reaching for a prize, dancing, and subsequently approached by his so forth. Puységur thought of a 6 Special Donors’ Section

dance melody in his mind and to was the attention he paid to the his surprise discovered that Victor young man’s mental and emotional began humming that same melody state. This was something Mesmer and dancing to it. After giving Victor had not done with his patients. this imagination-based workout, Mesmer was not naturally oriented he had him rest. Next, he had the to psychological observation (do not servants give him something to believe the movie Mesmer on this drink, feed him a clear bouillon, score). If Mesmer’s patients began and then bread, and a substantial speaking in what he considered a soup. Victor was then allowed to delirious or irrational way or lost sleep. Puységur continued to use consciousness, he simply had the same treatment the next day, them carried to a separate room and at the end of three days the to sleep it off. Puységur, however, young man was completely well. noted certain responses from Victor Puységur wrote down the details that he considered very significant. of this and other treatments he They can be summarized briefly: 1) performed during the six-week a sleep-waking state, that he called period starting 8 May 1784. His ‘magnetic sleep’ or ‘magnetic som- account of these events is found nambulism,’ which resembled the in his book Mémoires pour servir natural sleep-walking condition; à l’histoire et à l’établissement du 2) rapport, a special connection beings have an incredibly rich inner We know today that Mesmer’s magnétisme animal, published 28 with the magnetizer; 3) suggest- mental life that we know little about approach to healing, even though December of that year. The Fisher’s ibility, with a heightened capacity in our ordinary state of awareness. not directly influenced by Eastern Psychical Research collection pos- to imagine vividly; 4) amnesia in Magnetic somnambulism revealed thought, embodied ideas very simi- sesses a very special copy of this the waking state for the events that an alternate consciousness that is: lar to those that were developed important work. It is Puységur’s occur in the state of magnetic sleep; intelligent (capable of understand- and practiced for millennia in the personal copy, containing his auto- 5) the ability to read the thoughts ing and making judgments), reac- Indian, Chinese, and Japanese graph and annotations in his hand of the magnetizer; 6) the ability tive (aware of what is happening healing traditions. But the felici- that indicate changes intended for to diagnose the subject’s own ill- in one’s environment and capable tous intervention of Puységur in the second edition of the book to ness and that of others; and 7) a of responding to those events), eighteenth-century France caused appear the following year. In this striking change in the personality purposeful (able to pursue its own a leap in understanding the human personal copy, he also wrote the of the magnetic subject, with an goals), and co-conscious (operat- psyche that did not occur in those name of the individual to whom elevation of self-confidence. It was ing simultaneously with ordinary other cultures. It is interesting to note he had anonymously dedicated Puységur’s belief that the magnetic consciousness and outside its that today there is a growing interest, the first edition, a famous educator subject had a nearly infallible capac- awareness). Work with somnam- particularly in China, to learn from who had been his tutor as a young ity to know what she or he needed bulistic individuals in the decades the West a deeper understanding man. The latter annotation did not for their own healing, and when they following Puységur showed that this of psychic mechanisms that we as make it into the second edition, so made suggestions about this, he inner intelligence actually affects a culture tend to take for granted. we only know his name from this always followed them. how we feel and socially interact Puységur’s creative explorations, note. We see that all the changes Puységur’s experiences with in our normal consciousness. This first enunciated in this book, brought appear in the second edition, and people in the state of magnetic general way of understanding our about a psychological turn in our in this copy of the book, we have a sleep revealed human conscious- emotional life came to be called the cultural direction, one which we unique window into the thinking of ness as divided. Memory between psychodynamic view of the human encounter in literature and pop Puységur as he struggled to con- the magnetic state and the nor- mind. Without it there could have culture every day of our lives. In vey thoughts that were truly revo- mal state was one-way, with the been no Pierre Janet, no Sigmund that summer of 1784 and in the lutionary but not likely to be easily magnetized person being able to Freud, no Jean-Martin Charcot, book that recorded it, something believed by his peers. Puységur’s recall both what happened dur- no Jung, and none of the psycho- earth-shaking occurred. It is not copy captures a unique moment ing magnetic sleep and while the therapies their ideas spawned. This often that we can say, as Haydn in the history of Western culture, person was in their normal state, psychodynamic view of human did after first hearing Beethoven’s and is a unique literary treasure in while the subject in their normal functioning, this new explanatory shockingly innovative third sym- the evolution of psychology in the state always had amnesia for paradigm was truly revolutionary phony: ‘Everything is different West, as I will now explain. the magnetic state. In observing and deeply affected the develop- from today.’ What was significant in this deep trance state, Puységur ment of our culturally embedded Puységur’s treatment of Victor became convinced that human understanding of ourselves.

OPENING PAGE: Title page of Puységur’s Memoirs. ABOVE: Page from Puységur’s personal copy of his book, showing the name of the individual to whom he had anonymously dedicated the first edition. Special Donors’ Section 7

My book-collecting career began in his student, Jeremy Bentham; without any plan or prior knowledge because of Charles Darwin, I of the book trade itself. Admittedly, became engrossed by the writings it started without focus and rambled of Charles Lyell, Alfred Wallace, on for a while, and so the real story Thomas Henry Huxley, Asa Gray, behind my library begins only after and many others. My bookcase my collection focused specifically was rapidly filling up, and I was EVOLUTION OF A on Darwin and evolution. After that, just starting on the Printing and my life became intertwined with the Mind of Man strategy. his, but that is a story for another My plan really took a hit when COLLECTOR time. My days of rare book collect- I realized that just collecting first ing actually had their origins in an editions was not going to be good antique bookcase that I had bought enough. Of course, I needed to have and brought home. It looked terrific, them but also, at the very least, I By Garrett Herman but also quite lonely until I decided needed those editions with revisions that an antique bookcase should made during the authors’ lifetimes. have antiquarian books in it. Little This was the only way that I could did I know the magnitude of what capture an author’s full thought pro- I had begun. cess. So for example, it was essential I wondered which antiquarian to have the first six editions of the books should mark the genesis of Origin of Species because Darwin my collection. As I was trying to had revised it five times during his decide, I came across a bibliogra- lifetime. Similarly, Adam Smith had phy called Printing and the Mind of revised the Wealth of Nations twice, Man. This catalogue illustrated the so I should have the first three edi- impact of moveable type print on tions. Things really started to break the evolution of Western civilization down when I realized that in some during the first five centuries after cases, I needed to have the first edi- the invention of the press. Many tion in other languages as well. For familiar authors were listed, and I example, the first Spanish edition of started to buy first editions of these Darwin’s El origen de las especies works. The earliest purchases published in 1877 in Madrid has were: Machiavelli’s The Prince in content that was not yet present English, Freud’s Interpretation of in any other editions. In that case, Dreams in German, Harrison’s How Darwin had enticed the publisher to Build a Timekeeper, Booth’s In with some fresh data. Darkest England, Smith’s Wealth In December of 1998, I had had of Nations, the second edition of enough of chasing too many authors Newton’s Principia (the first was in too many directions. Finally, I the cost of a small condominium), decided that Charles Darwin was Malthus’s second edition of Theory going to be my main focus of con- of Population, Darwin’s Origin of centration. I chose Darwin because Species, and Mill’s On Liberty. he and his life’s work have con- By following the path laid out for tributed to humankind in so many me by Printing and the Mind of Man, important ways, and I particularly my collection grew steadily and well respected the positive values and for a while. Then I came to realize, traits that he had personally exhib- however, as I read the books them- ited. He was a true family man who selves, that I was becoming more engaged the energy of his wife and and more interested in particular young children in his daily life, and authors, and I began to source he often had them in his offices books that were connected and while he worked. Charles Darwin associated specifically with them. was also courageous. Born in For example, in the case of John 1809 to a wealthy, influential, and Harrison, I became fascinated devout family, he found his religious with the works of his competitor, background weighed heavily on his Nevil Maskelyne; in the case of mind when he decided to publish Adam Smith, I became interested On the Origin of Species because 8 Special Donors’ Section

he understood that his book flew and his family, then added his My home was always open to times because of his interest in directly in the face of then current friends and contemporaries. The all things Darwinian. It was a large Darwin. In 2009, I participated in Christian beliefs about creation. book buying process included Victorian mansion that I had pur- the Fisher exhibition on Darwin As a result, I made a momentous reading catalogues, going to anti- chased in 1996 and moved into by lending some materials to the decision to pack up a bunch of first quarian book fairs, visiting book fifteen months later, after a major displays at Richard’s request. The editions and go to Christie’s in New dealers, joining bibliophile clubs renovation. All of the work was Fisher was the best candidate to York. Yes, I sold some books, but it such as the Grolier Club of New York done without changing any of the receive some of my collection to was done so that I could focus on and the Association Internationale character of the century-old house, complement their famous Darwin Darwin and his contemporaries. I de Bibliophilie in Paris. As my librar- so as I began to collect evolution in collection. felt badly about this choice, but it ies grew in size, they became more the broadest sense and my libraries When I decided to downsize and had to be made for the sake of my and more interesting to visitors. As continued to grow, it happened in sell my house on a thirty-day clos- collection as a whole. As part of time went on, my home became that nineteenth-century environ- ing, The Fisher Rare Book Library my Printing and the Mind of Man a beacon for people interested in ment that I would enjoy so much. of the University of Toronto took strategy, I had bought books by Darwin and evolution. Many evo- A tour of my house would start in Philip Oldfield out of retirement Malthus, Erasmus Darwin (Darwin’s lutionary biologists and Victorian the world religions library, move to make an emergency visit to my grandfather), Lyell, Smith, Wallace studies professors, as well as to the eighteenth-century library, libraries to check out the situa- and others, all of which I decided book enthusiasts from around the on to the Darwin library, and then tion. Philip showed up with David to keep as part of my growing world, have found their way to my the nineteenth-century library. Fernández and a couple of days collection. I decided, however, to home. Among those who have vis- We would then head down to The later, a University of Toronto truck sell Harrison, Maskelyne, Freud, ited my libraries have been author Times of London library which had came by and left with seventy boxes Newton, Machiavelli, Pavlov, and and renowned atheist Richard sixty thousand newspapers dating filled with five thousand books. I others. My mind was now clear, Dawkins, Father Michael Czerny from 1805–1969 (including within am most pleased to make a small and the new strategy was to col- S. J., a Jesuit priest who was on them every day of Darwin’s life). contribution and assist The Thomas lect Charles Darwin and his circle the Pontifical Council for Justice Then we would make our way up Fisher Rare Book Library in achiev- of friends and supporters, as well and Peace in the Vatican, Janet two flights to the twentieth-century ing a very high status in the world as his detractors. Browne, a pre-eminent scholar in library, which included twenty-first of evolutionary science. My home eventually had seven the field of Darwin biography, as century material as well. libraries. I started collecting books well as Randal Keynes, Darwin’s Richard Landon, late Director of and ephemera related to Darwin great-great grandson. the Fisher, visited my home many

OPENING PAGE: Janet Brown, Darwin biographer and the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University with Garrett Herman in his Darwin Library. ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Buckley, Arabella. Cover of The Winners In Life’s Race, or, The Great Backboned Family. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1883. Beebe, William. Plate from Galapagos: World’s End. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1924. Darwin, Charles. Cover of The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle. Zaehnsdord Edition. Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1979. (Copy signed by George P. Darwin and Richard Darwin Keynes, Darwin’s great-grandsons.) Special Donors’ Section 9

Many years ago, Richard Landon catalogues and provided more and I designated the Thomas Fisher detailed descriptions of the books. Rare Book Library as our residuary His catalogues were produced in legatee, directing that an acquisi- advance and distributed widely, tion fund be established in our thus ensuring a good attendance names. Following Richard’s death of private collectors at the sales. in 2011, I reiterated that intention. His earliest catalogue was the THE RICHARD Then, in consultation with Megan Bibliotheca Bigotiana (1706), a library Campbell and Michelle Osborne formed by Jean Bigot (1588–1645) of the Library and University and his sons, Nicolas (1624–1682) GERALD LANDON- Advancement offices, I saw that and Émery (1626–1689), a literary the fund could be set up sooner scholar. Martin perfected his system to receive annual donations and, of arrangement and added an author ultimately, the bequest. Although index in the Bibliotheca Bultelliana MARIE ELENA I had not restricted the fund to a (1711), the library of Charles Bulteau particular subject, I was pleased (ca. 1630–1710), historian and when Director Anne Dondertman King’s secretary. In 1725 Martin KOREY FUND suggested that we focus on bibli- produced the Bibliotheca Fayana, ography and book history, an area the collection of literary and other that reflected Richard’s and my rarities formed by Charles Jérôme personal collecting interests. Until de Cisternay Du Fay (1662–1723). By Marie Korey her retirement in 2016, Anne and Three years later, he compiled the I conferred in selecting material. Bibliotheca Colbertina, the great Since then, I have the pleasure of library of French statesman Jean- working with Graham Bradshaw Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683). Michel of the Collection Development Brochard (d. 1728?), philologist at Department. As with other collec- the Collège Mazarin, had assisted tions at the Fisher Library, it is a Du Fay in the formation of his library. matter of building upon strength, Martin sold Brochard’s collection, in this case, the Duff collection: which included a fine selection of an initial bequest of books from French poetry along with the usual the library of Canadian journalist subjects, as Musaeum selectum Louis Blake Duff (1878–1959) to (1729). The catalogue was arranged which additions by gift and pur- according to Brochard’s own biblio- chase have been made over the graphical system but Martin com- years. It includes material on the piled the author index. Karl Heinrich, history of book collecting. But no Graf von Hoym (1694–1736), spent collection is complete, so we were happy years in Paris as the ambas- very interested in a proposal from sador for the king of Poland, buying Jonathan A. Hill concerning French books at the sales of Du Fay, Colbert, auction catalogues. Brochard, and other libraries. The By the first quarter of the eight- Hoym collection, in turn, became eenth century, Paris had become another of Martin’s great catalogues the international centre for book with a sale in 1738. The vast library auctions, marking the transition of one of Hoym’s competitors, the from inventory sales where books Abbé Charles d’Orléans de Rothelin were offered at fixed prices or en (1691–1744), was rich with illumi- bloc by private treaty, to sales where nated and historical manuscripts, as they were offered to the highest well as fine bindings. Martin offered it bidder. In the process, the book in 1746. These private libraries gen- trade developed from a strictly erally were encyclopedic collections second-hand market to include an with works of theology, law, history, antiquarian one. The auction cata- arts and sciences, and literature. logues provide a record of these Comparable to them was the library changes, beginning with those of of Marin de La Haye des Fossés Parisian bookseller Gabriel Martin (1684–1753), a Fermier général, (1679–1761). Martin used a clas- which Martin catalogued along with sified arrangement in most of his the engravings, maps and atlases, 10 Special Donors’ Section

and printed and engraved music (d. 1779). Then, with the assistance in 1754. The Du Fay and Colbert of Joseph Basile Bernard van Praet catalogues were already in the Fisher (1754–1837) for the manuscripts, collections. Now the Bigot, Bulteau, Debure produced the great 1783 Brochard, Hoym, Rothelin, and La catalogue of La Vallière’s library. It Haye des Fossés catalogues reside represented the finest books and there as well. manuscripts in that collection, many Martin established a standard of which made their way into English quickly adopted by his colleagues in collections. Guillaume Debure the book trade. Guillaume-François continued well into the nineteenth de Bure (1731–1782) followed it for century with the assistance of his the catalogue of the choice collec- sons. The Gaignat and 1783 La tion of Paul Girardot de Préfond in Vallière catalogues, as well as cop- 1757. He used it to great success in ies of the Bibliographie instructive, the 1767 anonymous sale of ‘dupli- were in the Fisher collections. The cates’ from the library of Louis-César catalogues of the Giradot de Prefond de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La sale, the La Vallière duplicate sales Vallière (1708–1780), which included (1767, 1772), and the Gouttard sale a copy of the Bible printed by Fust have been added. and Schöffer in 1462. De Bure’s This is but a sampling of the lasting influence was a guide to eighteenth-century French auction collectors — the first of its kind — his catalogues acquired in the past few seven-volume Bibliographie instruc- years and gives no indication of tive, ou, Traité de la connoissance those of the nineteenth century now des livres rares et singuliers (1763– in the Fisher collection. Whenever 1768). Then he issued the catalogue possible, we have chosen copies of the library of Louis-Jean Gaignat with contemporary annotations of (1697–1768) as a two-volume ‘sup- prices and other information, and plement’ to this work in 1769. G. F. the separately printed schedules of de Bure retired from bookselling in sales. We plan to continue devel- 1773, leaving his cousin, Guillaume oping this aspect of the Fisher Debure (1734–1820) to continue Library’s collections as the cata- this work. He compiled a second logues become available in today’s sale of duplicates from La Vallière’s antiquarian market. collection in 1772. In 1780 Debure offered the fine collection of early editions of classical literature and history, many on large paper or vellum, assembled by M. Gouttard

OPENING PAGE: First page of the Catalogue des livres de feu M. l’Abbé d’Orleans de Rothelin. ABOVE, TOP TO BOTTOM: Title page and frontispiece of the Catalogue des livres de feu M. l’Abbé d’Orleans de Rothelin; two-page spread from the same volume. Special Donors’ Section 11

I did not mean to collect old books. add a history of Christian persecu- In June 1962, having completed the tion from Roman times, as well as third year of a B. A. at McGill, I wrote enlarging and emending the Tudor to my father in England telling him and Marian history which had been that following the completion of the the staple of the first. degree in a year’s time, I had been Then, after breakfast, on a accepted into the M.A. programme, green and golden May morning, FOXE AND and proposed to prepare a thesis the telephone rang. A bookseller on John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. I in Wells — just eight miles from explained that I needed a complete home — had a second edition of COMPANY edition, none being available at The Book of Martyrs, and would we McGill: and so the chase began. be interested? It is amazing how Over the next four years — I fast you can drive on the winding joined the hunt in May 1964 when roads of deepest Somerset when By Andrew Patenall I returned to England to write a necessity calls. Father, with great doctoral thesis — we assembled foresight, tossed our lesser copy over sixty editions of the martyrol- of the first printing into the car, and ogy as well as a diverse collection in no time we were in the dealer’s of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and back room which looked out at eighteenth-century volumes rang- the great Norman towers of the ing from a magnificent Greek/Latin cathedral across the green: and dictionary (Basel 1532), bound in there was this beautiful copy, the oak boards covered with tooled two volumes housed in a plain, six- pigskin, through Venetian short teenth-century binding, and tooled story anthologies bound in vellum, on the spine with the words Lying to fine copies of The Paston Letters, Foxe’s Acts — and this disapproving and two early printings of Johnson’s Catholic ownership explained the Dictionary. It was great fun, and intact, unused nature of the copy. these books were, as they say in The title pages and prologomena Britain, cheap as chips. were there, as was the sermon of Then, in August 1966, I stopped Ælfric, utilising the first Old English and became a normal person. Due fount ever cast — no doubt at the largely to the proliferation of new bidding and expense of Archbishop universities in North America and Matthew Parker. in Britain, book prices took off However, the blighter wanted and a newly minted lecturer at the over a hundred pounds for it! We University of Toronto set about hemmed and hawed until Father acquiring a wife, children, mort- casually lifted our First Edition onto gages, and other such frivolities: the table. The dealer was stunned but those mad four years of book and in moments offered a straight collecting continued to provide swap. Maybe we were not wise, but great pleasure and satisfaction. I we were ecstatic and fled from the can record here only three of the shop with the quarry in our arms. great joys these old books have Still today I recollect that morning, given me. and this copy remains my favourite First, there is the joy of acquisition. among the ancient versions. By early summer of 1965, Father Then there is the joy of disposi- and I had acquired copies of each tion, and space permits only one of the nine ancient printings of instance of this process. We had Foxe — from the first in 1563 to the a decent and complete seventh ninth of 1684; indeed, we had two edition (1632) but we also had vol- complete copies of the ninth and, umes two and three of another copy remarkably, two copies of the first which we had acquired, despite edition. We also had a few incom- the missing first volume, because plete copies of other versions—but these books were splendidly bound we still lacked the elusive second in fine full calf, but with the owner’s of 1570. This was an important personal device, his initials, and, on edition because it was the first to the front boards, his name stamped 12 Special Donors’ Section

in gilt. In 2008, shortly after they, miscellany which dated from 1532 interest in this Holinshed fellow. The woodcut of Makbeth and and their fellow Foxes, had been to the late nineteenth century, until The bookseller persisted and said Banquho — wearing feathered deposited here in the Fisher, a finally I put two horrendously bat- he could let Father have them for hats, doublets and pumpkin call from P. J. Carefoote told me tered folio volumes on the table and five pounds. No way, said Father, pants — encountering the ‘wyrd that at some time in the past, the with some embarrassment asked far too much. Anyway, honour was sisters’ was an invariable showstop- missing first volume had come from whether there might be any interest finally satisfied and the tattered per. Above all, nearly all my students the Knox College Library into the in these. They had been acquired Holinshed came home for one had never seen a printed book of this care of the Fisher. You can read the by accident. pound ten shillings. antiquity, let alone actually touched details of this extraordinary event My dear Father, who never could Our Holinshed didn’t come to one. The sacramental power of the in The Halcyon (No. 43 June 2009); walk past an antiquarian bookshop, Canada for a few years, but when printed book is wondrous. but suffice to say here, the reunion happened to be in Bournemouth I returned to Toronto in 1966, it fol- So when Fisher agreed to accept of these volumes after some 370 on a hot summer’s day in 1964. lowed me in the crates containing the Holinshed, I decided to have it years is the kind of happenstance He came to a shop, the door was the collection. Oddly, it became restored, and to dedicate it to the that is the stuff of which a collector open and Father turned in, trip- one of my most useful texts. Unlike memory of a family member who dreams. I have always rejoiced over ping as he did so over two old the second edition, which scholars had died a few years earlier: Father our depositing our Foxes in The folios, propping the door open. deem to have been the one that would have approved. The magnifi- Fisher Library; but that reunion has The bookseller was horrified at the Shakespeare used, the first is copi- cent restoration was undertaken been the icing on the cake. prospect of damage — to Father, ously illustrated, and for many years by Fisher’s own Linda Joy and the Finally, the joy of restoration. not the books. He apologised my undergraduate Shakespeare binding was executed exquisitely Unless you are possessed of profusely and, when composures students marvelled at the story of by Keith Felton. Occasionally, I visit considerable wealth, the appraisal, were regained, told him that, alas, King Leir and his happy restoration the book with a curious acquain- insurance, and restoration of rare he had no Foxes. However, perhaps to his kingdom until his youngest tance, and I always find it a deeply books is beyond the reach of he might be interested in the books daughter, Cordeilla, assumed the satisfying last chapter in my lifelong most collectors. When the time over which he had stumbled. These throne; she reigned for five years friendship with old books. came to dispose of my non-Foxe were a copy of the first edition before being deposed by her two collection, Anne Dondertman and of Holinshed’s Chronicles (1578). nephews, the nasty sons of her P. J. Carefoote waded through the Father protested that he had no nasty sisters.

OPENING PAGE: Volume II of the 1576 second edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs with unusual binding. ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT: A Sermon in the Saxon tongue. Holinshed’s Chronicles, restored by Linda Joy and rebound by Keith Felton. Woodcut of Cordeilla illustrating the story of King Leir. Special Donors’ Section 13

Two years ago, the Fisher Library For map needs, P. J. Carefoote acquired a sliver of history in the provided an introduction to U of T’s unassuming guise of a small worn head of Maps and Data, Marcel blue photo album. Its forty-six Fortin. Recognizing the value pages of black-&-white photos had of online access to researchers, been begun in 1940 by twenty- Marcel created a versatile digital nine-year-old Hermann Meinhardt, map, on which orange pins would HERMANN’S a German soldier killed in 1945. mark places Hermann’s service Recording the first three years of had taken him in Germany, France, his war and captioned in his own Austria, Romania, Ukraine, and ALBUM hand, the album was donated by Russia. (When one town had four Meinhardt’s daughter, Inga Khan. plausible locations, we included It was the first World War II archival each with a question mark until material from the German side to further evidence could show one By Barbara Tangney enter the Fisher collection to be correct.) As well, Marcel’s Its range of photo subjects is map built in the option of adding broad, from Romanian gypsies to relevant photos to any pin/location Bolshevik prisoners, French town so they could be viewed online as ruins, a downed British bomber, well. This exciting possibility is cur- and the aftermath of Romania’s rently being investigated, while the 1940 earthquake. Out of 160 pho- mapping itself is ongoing. tos, only seven show actual heavy Another promising ‘lead’ was artillery field action, though many Hermann’s arresting caption for others picture the 88mm guns on nine photos of oil fields in flames: the move or in the background. Off- ‘Leni Riefenstahl makes a movie’. duty hours are a recurring focus: However, all our efforts to find its Vienna’s Riesenrad, seen on leave; title in Riefenstahl’s filmography letter writing and music in a bunker failed, and when Fisher librarian scene, with Hermann playing his Danielle Van Wagner was assigned signature accordion; a Karneval to catalogue the album we learned costume party. In marked contrast, why: Leni wasn’t the director! On the two sobering photos show sets of dates of the Romanian film shoot, grave markers for fellow soldiers she was on location elsewhere. recently killed in action. On a pre- (Perhaps the prominence of several vious page, one fallen officer had women on set had fed a Riefenstahl been pictured alive just the day rumour?) Danielle astutely identified before his death. the actual director (Fritz Kirchoff) The decision by my friend Inga to of Anschlag auf Baku, in part by donate her father’s album rested locating the propaganda film’s directly on the Fisher’s welcoming publicity poster which featured a readers and researchers to use dramatic photo of oil-field towers its holdings. To make the album closely resembling towers pictured available, a finding aid would be in the album. created and the album would be Learning of Fisher librarian catalogued. Both of us were keen Graham Bradshaw’s expertise on to help uncover what the album WW II weaponry, we enlisted him to could reveal and eagerly undertook identify the album’s guns and tanks. two practical tasks: Inga translated On its first page he pointed to the the album’s captions from German 88mm gun on which Hermann and into English, while I attempted to his fellows were training, describing locate the thirty mostly unfamiliar it as one of the most feared, being places named in the captions. The a high velocity anti-aircraft or anti- next step of finding a single map to tank weapon. When Graham was display these place names for easy finished, every piece of German, reference required outside help, French, or Russian equipment had and so began months of satisfying been spotted and noted on Inga’s and pleasurable collaboration with translation spreadsheet. In passing, Fisher staff. he also commented on details of 14 Special Donors’ Section

Inga receives her father’s service record for which she applied two years ago. Hermann’s last album appearance, the ninth in which he’s playing his accordion, is in a photo tucked loose into the volume. ‘Music on New Year’s Morning in Maikop 1943’ is written on the back, telling us he was in the Caucasus on that January 1, and just 350 miles from the besieged German 6th Army in Stalingrad which would surrender to the Russians one month and a day later. Other mysteries remain. Among them, why did the photo album leave off in August 1942? Who took pictures in which Hermann appears (and who took the others too)? Did Hermann compile and label his photos while on leave? If so, is this how the album was in the posses- sion of his wife Emmi (evacuated to Bavaria from Cologne in July 1942 German uniforms, moving us into ing both the gun and Hermann’s removed and restored them safely. with two-year-old Inga) when they our next area of investigation: with crew as ‘Anton’ made sense when Through the microscope Danielle returned to Cologne in 1945? whom had Hermann served? Danielle learned it was the German detected a wedding band on the Inga’s wish that her father’s Symbols and chevrons on his military-alphabet word for the letter right hand of a helmeted man I album would be used has already uniform told Danielle that Hermann A, equivalent to the English ‘Alpha’. thought might be Hermann. She been fulfilled. The album was a had been an enlisted man in a A large white A painted on the crew’s and Linda opined on whether a Fisher contribution to the joint Luftwaffe ground regiment. From gun confirmed this. wedding band did or did not appear Doors Open display on film with handwriting on the backs of album An indispensable partner in our on Hermann’s right hand as they the Media Commons in May, and photos, Robarts Library sources in explorations was Linda Joy, the eyeballed five other Hermann pho- it was an archival item used in German, and a regimental history Fisher’s conservator, whose micro- tos under the microscope, and they teaching a first- and second-year she bought on eBay after a prom- scope and sharp eye we relied on agreed they could see it in most. Twentieth-Century German Culture ised loan of it fell through, Danielle’s when photo scans pixellated before Investigation made enjoyable. class at the Fisher last February. For intrepid sleuthing revealed not only giving up desired details. Names Hermann Meinhardt’s grave me, being allowed to take part in Hermann’s specific regiment, but and dates on seven grave markers marker in the war cemetery at research along with my friend Inga his exact division and battery! From were scrutinized under her micro- Meschede-Eversberg in the and with the Fisher’s exceptional 1939–1942 he served in Division scope and deciphered with her help. Sauerland reveals that he died on staff has been a highlight of my (Abteilung) I of Flak Regiment 4, When photos needed lifting from 8 April 1945, but not where he was experience as a Friend of the Fisher. member of a six- to eight-man crew fragile album corners in order to killed. Where and how he spent operating an 88mm gun in Heavy locate and photograph any writing the last half of the war and where Flak Battery 3. Captions designat- on their backs, her skilled hands he died may be discovered when

OPENING PAGE: ‘Music on New Year’s morning in Maikop, 1943.’ The last photograph in the album places Hermann and his regiment in the Caucasus, where the Soviets had already begun launching large offensives forcing the Germans’ retreat. ABOVE: ‘Anton Fires.’ Hermann’s gun crew at work. Hermann’s commanding officer, Oberleutnant Heinz Erhardt pictured (with binoculars) on the day before his death. Special Donors’ Section 15

The Walsh Philosophy Collection, charged him with participation in a now held at the Fisher, is a large plot against his life. (12,500+ titles) collection that Seneca was a prolific writer of encompasses all periods of Western plays, philosophical dialogues and philosophy. While the majority of its essays, numerous ‘public’ letters holdings are of more recent vintage, dealing with moral and philosophical the collection’s greatest relative subjects, a work on natural history, A PHILOSOPHICAL strength is in books published and a satire on Nero’s step-father before 1870, the earliest having Claudius. He was the greatest of the been published in 1473. The col- Roman stoics and he is still widely APPROACH TO lection was built over fifty years. read, not just by classicists and phi- My wife Virginia and I donated the losophers, for the insight and advice early books to the Fisher in 1999 his works convey, particularly into and have made additional gifts in human frailties. Because Seneca’s COLLECTING most years since then. Several years philosophical writings were widely ago, we decided that we wanted the read in manuscript during the collection to have a ‘life’ beyond that Renaissance it is not surprising F. Michael Walsh which was allotted to me — that is, that they were among the first to be we wanted the Fisher to have the printed, and in several editions. One financial wherewithal to continue of the most important is Lucij Annæi to make significant additions after Senecæ sanctissimi philosophi my death. To achieve this, we have lucubrationes omnes, published by been building an endowment that Johann Froben (1460–1527) in Basel will enable purchases in perpetu- in 1515. Its importance is owing to ity. A number of desirable books the fact that it was edited by the have been acquired using income great humanist scholar Desiderius from this endowment. The follow- Erasmus (1466–1536), who claimed ing three, selected from purchases to have corrected four thousand made in the last year, illustrate the errors in earlier editions. The Fisher’s benefits of enabling a collection to copy is not only in fine condition grow in this way. internally but is also in a beauti- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also fully preserved binding by Andre known as ‘Seneca the Younger’ Boule, a talented Parisian purveyor to distinguish him from his father, of bindings created using pressed was born c.1 BCE in Cordoba, into plates and rolls. Both boards have a wealthy and powerful equestrian fine central panel stamps, the one family. As a child he was sent on the upper cover depicting the to Rome where he completed a martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and rigorous programme of studies in that on the lower cover showing the literature, rhetoric, and philoso- Crucified Christ. phy. While still a young man, he Principi d’una scienza nuova entered upon a career in politics d’intorno alla comune natura delle and advanced rapidly. Sadly, he nazioni, best known as the Scienza also used the various offices he nuova or New Science, is the prin- held to acquire great wealth. He cipal work of Giambattista Vico. was elected quaestor in 37 and Born in 1668 to a Naples bookseller, soon was dangerously envied (by Vico’s early education was primarily Caligula, for example) for his oratori- conducted by tutors and based on cal performance in the Senate. He his own reading, owing to his poor also became the tutor of the future health as a youth. However, in 1694, emperor Nero and from 54 to 62 he received a Doctorate in Civil and he was a principal advisor to Nero, Canon Law from the University of as well as his speechwriter. Partly Naples and, in 1699, he became due to ill health, but also owing to a professor of rhetoric there. He a decline in influence, Seneca then sought, but never received, the sought to retire from public life. more prestigious and lucrative Chair However, in 65 he was forced to in jurisprudence; however, in 1734, commit suicide by Nero, who falsely he was appointed historiographer 16 Special Donors’ Section

royal by Charles III, King of Naples. rary enlightenment thinking about shortly before his death. (The Walsh are founded not on self-interest, He died in 1744 in Naples. progress. The book is in a smaller Philosophy Collections also holds as Hume had said, but on fellow- Today, Vico is recognized as a format and type font than would the first and sixth editions.) Moral feeling — that is to say, the ability father of the social sciences and be expected for a treatise of this Sentiments was warmly praised that one man has to put himself in as perhaps the first philosopher kind, perhaps because Vico and his by David Hume, Edmund Burke, the place of another and to judge of history. In Scienza nuova he printer, Felice Mosca had difficulty and others, and it was soon trans- others by himself and himself by argues that true social or histori- financing its publication. lated into French and German. others. Smith’s theory is naturalistic, cal science can only be about the Adam Smith (1723–90) is rightly The Fisher’s recent purchase is a in that moral good is seen as a kind man-made, including, most impor- acknowledged as the father of politi- copy of that first French edition, of pleasure experienced in thus tantly, human institutions. The first cal economy for his great work An Métaphysique de l’ame ou théorie watching virtue at work. It is moral edition appeared in 1725, but this Inquiry into the Nature and Causes des sentimens moraux which was because our object is the agent’s second edition of 1730, which was of the Wealth of Nations (1776); published in Paris in 1764. That it motive of conforming to standards also published in Naples, is sub- however, it should be better known was translated and published in of behaviour in society, not harm- stantially revised and expanded. that he considered himself first and France so soon after publication is ing the innocent, for example. As Indeed, a leading Vico scholar foremost a philosopher. He studied in part owing to Smith’s lengthy visits well, this moral attentiveness can has written that it was ‘so heavily philosophy, first at Glasgow and then to that country during his sojourn be directed at ourselves and thus modified as almost to constitute a Oxford. In 1751, he was appointed with the young Duke. Although a we have a basis for judgments not different work.’ The book opens professor of logic at Glasgow, but naturally very reserved man, Smith only about the behaviour of others, with a detailed description of the soon moved to Glasgow’s chair of quickly became a favourite in the but also of ourselves, by the simi- allegorical engraving of Antonio moral philosophy, which he held until salons of Paris. Like his close friend larity we recognize in the virtue of Baldi’s frontispiece, depicting the 1764. He next served as a travelling David Hume, his ideas on ethical the agent and in the self as specta- figure of ‘Metafisica’ contemplating tutor for thirty-three months to the theories elicited great interest from tor. This common basis is also the natural order under the eye of God. eighteen-year-old Henry Scott, the the French. foundation of jurisprudence. Although now considered one of 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, before retir- Influenced by Hutcheson and Virginia and I look forward to the most influential and important ing to a life of research and writing. Hume, as well as by Stoicism, Smith continuing to add to the endow- works on the topics it addresses, The Theory of Moral Sentiments bases his ethics on our natural ment, and I look forward to work- the Scienza nuova was neglected is Smith’s first book, which to his feeling of ‘sympathy’, which gives ing with the Fisher’s librarians, and widely misunderstood in Vico’s death he also thought his finest. An us an ability, as ‘impartial specta- until my demise, to find many more lifetime, possibly owing to his pes- immediate success, the first edi- tors’, to put ourselves imaginatively fine acquisitions for the Walsh simistic theory about the inevitable tion (1759) was quickly reissued; it into the situation of others, and Philosophy Collection. After that decline of civilisation, in contrast eventually had six editions, the last thus to assess their behaviour. He event, they will be on their own in to the optimism of contempo- of which Smith revised extensively holds that our moral sentiments putting our endowment to work.

OPENING PAGE: André Boule’s binding for Lucij Annæi Senecæ sanctissimi philosophi lucubrationes omnes. ABOVE: Title page and Antonio Baldi’s engraved frontispiece of Scienza nuova or New Science. Title page of the first French edition of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. 17

Manuscripts Gifts in 2017 Jennifer Toews and Natalya Rattan Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

his year has proven to be another Jack Batten gifted his drafts, research stories; early writing drafts; reviews written by bountiful one, with a fascinating array notes, and proofs related to his ‘Crang’ novels: her for The Globe and Mail; correspondence of modern manuscripts thanks to our Crang Plays the Ace; Take Five; Keeper of the and other material. Michelle Berry has Tvery generous and thoughtful donors. Flame; Riviera Blues; Blood Count; and Booking published three books of short stories, How Bob and Ruby Allisat gifted the In; as well as drafts, notes, and research notes for a to Get There from Here (1997), Margaret Lives correspondence written to family members by young adult biography of Oscar Peterson, Oscar in the Basement (1998), and I Still Don’t Even Private Frank Fasick, a United States Peterson: The Man and His Jazz;research and Know You (winner of the 2011 Mary Scorer soldier serving during the Korean War, which notes for a history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Award for Best Book Published by a Manitoba they rescued from a house and kindly donated The Leafs;a history of the University of Toronto Publisher); as well as five novels, What We All to the library. Schools, 100 Years of UTS; and his whodunit Want (2001), Blur (2002), Blind Crescent (2005), The most recent gift of Margaret columns for The Toronto Star(1999–2017). This Book Will Not Save Your Life (winner of Atwood contains extensive family and From David Bernhardt, we received the 2010 Colophon Award), and Interference personal correspondence, (1940s to the present); some archival material pertaining to short story (2014). Her writing has been optioned for film The Handmaid’s Taleand Alias Grace television writer and poet David (Dayv) James- and published in the United Kingdom. She series media; The Heart Goes Lastpublisher’s French (1953–2016). This donation includes has taught creative writing at Trent University, matter; juvenilia including papier maché pup- many drafts of his writing, including short Ryerson and, by correspondence, at Humber pets made by her in high school, complete with stories, poetry, and novels, such as Victims of College. She has also taught online for the set items and script; and correspondence with Gravity (1990) and other unpublished work; University of Toronto. Berry has served on her maternal Aunt Joyce Barkhouse (author of professional and personal correspondence with the board of PEN Canada and the authors’ Pit Pony and Anna’s Pet). authors and publishers; submissions; book committee of the Writer’s Trust, and was Jan and Crispin Elsted of The reviews; personal journals and other material Second Vice-Chair of The Writer’s Union. Barbarian Press donated artists’ printing related to his life and work. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario, where blocks and other material related to their fine First-time donor Michelle Berry she currently runs her own bookstore, Hunter press books. donated drafts of her novels and books of short Street Books. 18

Ken Beverley donated an extensive sickle-cell anemia patients and for a number was a career Royal Navy officer and British addition to the papers of his late wife, prolific of public health issues. Later, he became a Consul-General. He was born in Christiania romance writer, Jo Beverley, including physician at Seaton House men’s hostel, and (now Oslo), Norway on 3 September 1849, manuscript drafts for A Lady’s Secret (2008), The was a section chair of the Ontario Medical the oldest child of Arthur de Capel Brooke Secret Wedding (2009), The Raven and the Rose Association. Woodfall Crowe (1825–1895), the British Vice- (2014), The Viscount Needs a Wife (2016), and Elspeth Cameron added to her papers Consul to Norway, and Frederikke Adame other writing drafts; research; fan mail; pro- this year, including manuscript drafts and Wilhelmine Hauch (1829–1907). motional materials; correspondence; personal research files for A Tale of Two Divas: The The Tripe Family papers, gift of documents including drawings, memorabilia, Curious Adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Janet Dewan, are comprised of cor- contracts, royalties, and audiobooks; and a USB Miller in Canada’s Edwardian West (2016), and respondence, documents, photographs, and drive containing many of her working files. other professional and personal files. art works, as well as genealogical materials The third accession of theCoach House George Elliott Clarke donated from England, India, the United States, Cuba, papers from Stan Bevington includes his notebooks, drafts, research, voluminous the Philippines, and Canada over the period material that ranges from the era of the Coach correspondence, ephemera, and all manner from 1838–1999. They relate to Alfred Tripe House Press to present day Coach House of material related to his life and work. Major (1818–1854), his sister Emily (Tripe) James Books, 1990–2010. This donation features works include The Motorcyclist, Canticles, Gold, (1817–1850), their first cousin Mary Broad records relating to both the printing and Trudeau, and Red/I & I; as well as short pieces; (Tripe) De Rusett (1820–1898), and their publishing operations of Coach House, includ- reviews, essays, remarks, lectures, editorial relatives and descendants. Correspondence ing job dockets (these show the final printed work, appearances and research. George from 1866–1903 includes letters written by product as well as all of the correspondence Elliott Clarke served as the Parliamentary Poet William Francis James during his service with and drafts that go into a book’s creation), Laureate of Canada from 2016–2017. Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in Cuba in 1898. editorial records, promotional materials, The Fisher Library has acquired the only Images include art works, cartes-de-visite and proofs of book covers, ephemera, broadsides, known records of Captain Fritz Hauch large family portraits. Tripe, James, and several and photographs. Eden Crowe (1849–1904), comprised of other related pedigrees form part of this gift. Dr. Helen Breslauer donated watercolours and drawings made during his Also present is a family fairy tale, composed in the papers of her husband, Dr. Robert travels as a British naval officer and Consul- India in 1878, edited in England in 1914, and Timothy Stansfield ‘Bob’ Frankford General to Portuguese East Africa. The papers illustrated in Canada in 1992. (1939–2015), family physician and Ontario MPP also contain three letters written to his mother Artist Virginia Dixon donated an for Scarborough East from 1990–1995. Dr. (1863, 1872, 1878), and one to his grandfather as extensive addition to the papers of author, artist, Frankford was well known as an advocate for a fourteen-year-old naval cadet. Captain Crowe and adventurer Jim Christy. Included are

OPENING PAGE: Romance novels written by Jo Beverley. Gift of Ken Beverley. ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Coach House staff and writers, 1968. Gift of Stan Bevington. Photo of an unidentified travelling companion by Jim Christy. Gift of Virginia Dixon. 19

BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Acquisition of watercolours painted by Captain Crowe. Richard Landon with bookbinder Michael Wilcox in 1977. Gift of Bonnie Horne. drafts, notes, research, photographs, some early several boxes to the growing collection of others); manuscripts by other writers, such personal material, reviews, and other material Toronto-Siena Centre literary files, containing as Martha Hillhouse, Andrew Vaisius, Erin for Sweet Assorted, Strange Sites, ‘Scalawags’ the works of some of Canada’s most notable Mouré, Brother Lawrence Morey, and Stan columns in NUVO, art exhibitions, and The authors. Dragland; ephemera used for writing; appear- Castle Stories. The gift of Michael Gervers includes ances; editorial work on several literary journals, Charles Dreyfus gifted correspon- handwritten letters, telegrams, photographs, and other personal documents. dence between his wife, Fanny, and Mavis postcards, and ephemera from the First and This year’s addition to the Maureen Gallant, 1988–1992, (with thanks to Second World Wars. The correspondence is Scott Harris papers includes correspond- Jacqueline Swartz). Mr. Dreyfus is the grandson primarily between Florence Marc and various ence; the Renga 9 collaborative poetry project; of French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus correspondents; and between Captain A. G. Fieldnotes publications, which include The (1859–1935), and resides in Paris, France. (Peter) Fiddes Watt and Miss Gwynedd Original Title by Elizabeth Hay (2016), The Joan Eichner, literary executor for Corlette. Spaces Between by Christina McCallum (2016), Margaret Avison, who was a close friend Lorna Goodison and J. Edward and Wilderness on the Page by John Steffler and mentor of poet George Whipple, Chamberlin added to their papers with (2017). Also included are numerous drafts of At donated their correspondence, 2007–2014, early, unpublished drafts of Goodison’s From the Exact Speed Necessary / Learning My Father’s notes, and a manuscript of Whipple’s The Harvey River, Controlling the Silver, Turn Thanks, Death (2005–2016), and Waters Remembered Seven Wonders of the Leg. and Collected Poems, as well as a sketchbook (2015); travel diaries, personal calendars, and Laura Ferri of Siena, Italy, added and other material. J. Edward Chamberlin photographs. served as an expert Bonnie Horne gifted the collected witness for the land- papers of husband Alan Horne relating to mark breach of trust book illustration and fine printing, including case, Apsassin et al. photographs from the 1970s of noted Canadian versus The Queen, fine bookbinder, Michael Wilcox. and donated material Poet Marshall Hryciuk added to related to his research his papers this year, donating various folders on the case. of work that include writing, correspondence, Poet Phil Hall and images; files relating to Imago Press; and gifted his drafts and other files related to his life and work. notes for White First time donor, poet Maureen Hynes, Porcupine, My Banjo gifted her papers to the Library. They include & Tiny Drawings; her early writing; manuscripts of her memoir, numerous notebooks; Letters from China; Rough Skin (winner correspondence (with of the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Glen Downie, Alice Lampert Award for best first book of poetry Munro and many by a Canadian); Harm’s Way; Marrow, Willow; 20

ephemera; materials related to summer camps in Algonquin Provincial Park; and material from family businesses, such as an Ontario lumber mill (together with historical research on the lumber industry in Canada and the United States) and a Toronto lithographic printing company. Material relating to Roger Miller’s teaching career in Ontario in the late twentieth century, Frederic William Miller’s advertising career in Chicago and Montreal in the early- to mid-twentieth century, and the 1929–1931 Arctic expeditions of John C. Rogers round off this gift. Thailand-based Canadian author Christopher G. Moore added to his papers with drafts, notes, and proofs for A Memory Manifesto: A Walking Meditation Through Cambodia; Vincent Calvino’s World; Crackdown; Missing in Rangoon; The Marriage Tree; Minor Wife; Chairs; Paying Back Jack; The Risk of Infidelity Index; Jumpers; A Killing Smile; Asia Hand; Spirit House; Gate Keepers of Time; Heart Talk; Waiting for the Lady; and The Big Weird;photographs, including of Aung Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Stirling Silliphant; correspondence; cover designs; appearance notices, and research. correspondence; and other material, including Ian Kilvert donated correspondence Goldie Morgentaler added to the her extensive collection of political buttons. between his mother, Barbara Kilvert, papers of her mother, Yiddish author and trans- Hynes’s poetry has appeared in more than and her friend Al Purdy dating from lator, Chava Rosenfarb, which include twenty anthologies, and she has given readings, 1965–1972. drafts, notes, correspondence, photographs, workshops, and lectures around the world. She Alberto Manguel added to his and other material. has taught at the University of Toronto, and archives with manuscript drafts of ‘Packing Karen Mulhallen added to her has written on second language acquisition, My Library’ and other writing drafts; material already extensive papers early drafts women’s training issues, human rights, as concerning the National Library of Argentina (1960s–1990s) of her poetry, prose, and well as labour history and studies. With poets (under his directorship); travel and appear- sketches, as well as some recent work; some Maureen Scott Harris, Anita Lahey, Dilys ances; correspondence; research; and other final Descant magazine files; Naylor family Leman, and Nicholas Power, Hynes offers personal and professional files related to his correspondence; and ephemera. River Poetry Walks along Toronto’s Don and life and work. Author, librarian, and scholar E r ic Humber Rivers, and leads Toronto labour Renowned Toronto bookseller, author, Ormsby added correspondence, drafts history tours. and raconteur, David Mason, added to of essays, articles, and other material to his Book artist Jan Kellett donated to the his extensive files, which include research papers this year. Library for the first time, including working and background material for his memoir, The James Otis shared his correspondence boxes for her miniature books as well as drafts, Pope’s Bookbinder. with Crad Kilodney, including some of correspondence and promotional materials This year John Metcalf donated Kilodney’s logic puzzles. for each of them. A significant part of this personal writing, including material relating Dr. Eva Pip donated documents from donation includes promotional material and to The Canadian Short Story and The Museum the Korigen/Kurogen Ukrainian Displaced media coverage for De Walden Press, which at the End of the World as well as other writ- Persons camp, some of which pertain to her she founded in Malvern, England in 1996 ing projects. Also included in the donation parents. Dr. Pip writes of them: ‘My mother but relocated to British Columbia, Canada are manuscripts and correspondence with wrote poetry and worked at Camp Kurogen several years later. Trained as a bookbinder, other writers containing Metcalf’s editorial for publisher Bohdan Krawciw as a journalist Jan Kellett is known for making miniatures revisions; personal journals and scrapbooks; and editor. Many of her poems are published inspired by nursery rhymes and antique and photographs. in the documents. She played prominent dolls, but is probably most recognized for her The Roger Miller family papers roles in the amateur theatricals that the books on Shakespeare including Shakespeare’s consist of materials connected to Roger inmates presented at the camp. She came to Flowers (1998), Shakespeare’s Harvest (1999), Miller and various other members of Canada in 1948. My father was very active Shakespeare: Man of Property (2000), and the Miller family. This gift of Mr. Miller in Kurogen camp organizations, painted the Storming Shakespeare (2012). encompasses his collected Ontario and Toronto icons at the camp church, painted the stage 21

Robyn Sarah donated worksheets, drafts, proofs and correspondence related to Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems, 1975–2015; La parole des pierres; Le tamis des jours: poèmes choisis; as well as miscellaneous papers and ephemera. Larry Sherk, who previously donated his private collection of beer labels to the Fisher Library in 2011, added some archival material this year, including early correspon- dence, travel-related documents, European horticultural materials, photographic slides, and drafts of his book: 150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels (2016). Antanas Sileika added to his papers this year with manuscripts for his book, The Barefoot Bingo: A Memoir (2017); files pertaining to the Humber School for Writers; and research files relating to Dr. Tillson Lever Harrison. sets for the amateur plays, designed costumes Prize include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, David Solway added his correspon- and makeup for the actors, made Ukrainian Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and most dence, drafts and revisions of ‘Reflections on dolls (my mother made their various regional recently Michael Redhill, Madeline Thien, Music, Poetry and Politics’, Installations, ‘Songs costumes), and played the violin both solo and André Alexis. The donation contains for the Common Day’, various essays for online at camp events and onstage, and with the material pertaining to the prize, including publication, and his holograph notebooks. camp orchestra. He drew the illustrations for three scrapbooks of clippings of Doris Giller’s From Rhea Tregebov we received many of the periodicals, [such as: Dzhmil (i. ‘Reading Habits’ column in The Toronto Star; drafts and notes for Rue des Rosiers, The e. Bumblebee, because it has a big sting)] and newspaper clippings of major events; audio- Strength of Materials, poetry, correspondence, wrote some of the poetry published therein. He visual materials documenting various Giller and appearances. was originally a wounded prisoner of war and Prize gala events (mostly 1990s); appearances of Andrew Wright gifted an addition worked at forced labor camps in the Hamburg Canadian authors on various television shows; to the papers of his late father, Richard B. area during 1940–1943. He came to Canada in media coverage; recordings of the ceremonies; Wright, which include drafts, notes, research 1949. His documents and concentration camp correspondence; administrative material; and correspondence for memoir A Life with artifacts pertaining to the period 1938–1944 are photographs; and promotional material. Words; Nightfall; Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard; being donated to the Canadian Museum for Malca Reisman gave the correspon- October; and other material. Human Rights, for their Holocaust Gallery.’ dence of Faiga and Samuel Tick. Valerie Wright donated additional Poet, songwriter, and novelist Robert The Judith Robertson gift of papers belonging to her late husband, noted Priest donated manuscript drafts for his Charles Ritchie papers represents author Eric Wright, composed of drafts of children’s book series trilogy Spell Crossed, her third, and contains material relating published and unpublished works, correspon- including The Paper Sword (2014), Second to the life and work of Canadian diplomat dence, reviews, notes, and other material related Kiss (2015), and Missing Piece (2016); drafts of Charles Ritchie, as well as material relating to to a number of short stories and the following poetry and song lyrics, including attempted Robertson and her family. The Charles Ritchie novels: The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn, A Likely lyrics with Alannah Myles, Allen Booth, and material includes correspondence with his Story, Finding Home, Dempsey’s Lodge, and The Mark Jordan; articles; correspondence, and niece, Elizabeth Ritchie, as well as diary entries Land Mine (1998–2015). Royalty reports from other files relating to his life and work. (1920–1973) from his time working abroad with publishers, materials related to a proposed film Jack Rabinovitch (1930–2017) the Canadian Department of External Affairs. or television adaptation of The Night the Gods donated material pertaining to the Giller The material relating to Judith Robertson Smiled, cassette tapes containing interviews Prize. Jack Rabinovitch founded the Giller concerns her work as the executor of the Charles with Wright, and a 1985 CBC reading of The Prize in 1994 in honour of his late wife, literary Ritchie literary estate, and as co-editor of Night the Gods Smiled, as well as other personal journalist, Doris Giller, who passed away Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles material also form part of this gift. from cancer in 1993. He wanted to honour her Ritchie (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Our sincere thanks to everyone who while also celebrating excellence in Canadian 2008). Documents and correspondence kept contributes to growing our rich and varied fiction. The prize has helped to bring both by Norman A. Robertson, diplomat in the collections and to everyone who helps to make established and lesser-known writers to the Department of External Affairs and father of them freely accessible and available to our many public’s attention. Past winners of the Giller Judith Robertson, complete this gift. researchers and visitors.

FACING PAGE: Process work for Jan Kellett’s miniature books, Shakespeare’s Flowers (1998) and Shakespeare’s Harvest (1999). Gift of Jan Kellett. ABOVE: Photograph of young monks in Myanmar by Christopher G. Moore. Gift of Chistopher G. Moore. 22

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Presents The Medieval Book The Third Fisher Library Summer Seminar

With Michelle P. Brown, PhD, FSA  internationally acknowledged expert in the field, formerly the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Monday 3 June to Wednesday 5 June 2019

The call for applications will be sent out in December 2018; the deadline for completed applications is Thursday 31 January, 2019.

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Donors of Gifts-in-Kind to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2017

Bob and Ruby Allisat Charles Dreyfus William K. Johnston Jack Rabinovitch Diane Armstrong Joan Eichner Michael Juneau Caron Rambeau Margaret Atwood Crispin and Jan Elsted Jan Kellett Robert R. Reid William Barker Laura Ferri Ian Kilvert Malca Reisman Dennis Bartels Alan Finlayson Susan Klayman E. J. Revell Jack H. Batten John Richard Fitzgerald Marie Korey Mary Reynolds Robyn Sarah Belkin Estate of Frederick Flahiff Linda F. Kowal Eric N. Robertson Laura Bellingham Patricia Fleming Margaret J. Kowal Judith Robertson Robert Bennett David Frank Karol Krysik Coleman Romalis David K. Bernhardt Luba Frastacky Ted W. Kulp Nickolas Sheperd Michelle Berry Friends of the Library, Simon Langlois Lawrence Sherk Kay Betts Trinity College Peter J. Lewis Antanas Sileika Kenneth Beverley Douglas Frizzle Joseph Lohonyay Jean Simmons Stan Bevington José Gavinha Laurel S. MacDowell Darlene Sinnott and Robert H. Blackburn Michael Gervers Kyo Maclear Kathleen Sinnott William Blissett Jennifer Ghent-Fuller Alberto Manguel Katherine Sirluck Graham Bradshaw Jacqueline Gibbons Neil Marshall Beverley Slopen Lisa Brandeis Elaine (Dent) Gillies Beverly McGhee Ray Smith Rachel Brandeis Joseph Glazner Stuart McMinn David Solway Robert C. Brandeis Lorna Goodison James H. McNair Joan Sutton Straus Barbara Braver Allan and Sondra Gotlieb John and Myrna Metcalf Maria Subtelny Helen Breslauer Pamela R. Gough Roger Miller Stephen Sword Bill Brien Susan Gould Michael and Jane Millgate Anne Thackray Stephen C. Brown John K. Grande John Millyard Michael Torosian Ted Brown Norm Guilfoyle David Mirvish William B. Toye Peter Cahill Margaret Hall Joan Mollins Rhea Tregebov Elspeth Cameron Phil Hall Julie Grace Mollins Vanessa Venet J. Edward Chamberlin Scott Hall Tracey Mollins Estate of Tuppil George Elliott Clarke Susan and Tom Harpur Christopher Moore Venkatacharya / Linda and Brian Corman Maureen Scott Harris David Moos Patañjali Chary June Davis Garrett Herman Goldie Morgentaler Keith Walden Debra Dearlove and Bonnie Horne Karen Mulhallen Gareth Walters David Mason Ian Hose Patrick Murphy Germaine Warkentin Jon S. Dellandrea Marshall J. L. Hryciuk Eric Ormsby Mary F. Williamson Janet E. Dewan Elizabeth Hulse James Otis Andrew Wright Virginia Dixon Brian Hurst and Yvonne Eva Pip Valerie Wright Arch and Patricia Hurst Nick Power Sheila Yuan Donaldson Maureen Hynes Robert Priest Borys Zayachirsky

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21 May to 16 August 2019 Inside Out: Bookbinding as a Reflection of Art and Craft, Industry and Use Editors’ Note P l a n n ed Ev en ts 2018–2019 This issue was edited by P. J. (Pearce) Carefoote, Loryl MacDonald and Lectures begin at 6:00 pm Maureen Morin, and designed by Maureen Morin. Comments and/or suggestions should be sent to: Wednesday 27 March 2019 P. J. (Pearce) Carefoote The George Kiddell Lecture on the History of the Book Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Daniel Wakelin, Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 English Palaeography, University of Oxford, on ‘The ABC 416-946-3173 of Medieval English Writing’. [email protected] The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the Friends of The Thomas Fisher Rare Thursday 25 April 2019, 12–6 pm Book Library is published twice a year in June and December. The Halcyon includes short articles on recent noteworthy gifts to and acquisitions Fisher Open House of the Library, recent or current exhibitions in the Library, activities Come and see our latest acquisitions from the last six of the Friends, and other short articles about the Library’s collections. months. Queries or corrections for the mailing list or membership list should be addressed to: Thursday 9 May 2019 Anna Maria Romano The Johanna and Leon Katz Memorial Lecture University of Toronto Libraries Charles Pachter, Toronto artist, painter, and printmaker on Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 his work in the book arts. 416-978-3600 [email protected] Members of the editorial board of The Halcyon are P. J. (Pearce) Carefoote and Loryl MacDonald, Fisher Library, and Megan Campbell and Maureen Morin, Robarts Library. Cover photo by Rob Carter. Interior photography by Paul Armstrong. HALCYON For more information about the Fisher Library, please visit the web site at fisher.library.utoronto.ca. University of Toronto Libraries Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5