ISSUE No. 29, June 2002 ISSN 0840-5565

Two minds, but a single thought …

ince Edna Hajnal, the Fisher Library’s Other popular themes are Canadiana, Programme collection and we hope to be manuscript curator for the past European literature and politics, and fine able to process it this summer. The S fifteen years, will be retiring this printing. This year proved to be no ornithological faction was represented this June, we thought it appropriate that she exception. Avid theatregoer, Eric Etchin, year by the gift of Rosemary Speirs, who add her thoughts to my annual account of turned over a collection of programmes enabled us to add some two hundred donations made to the Fisher Library and playbills dating from 1958 through to volumes to the Baillie Collection. The during the past year. My account, there- 2000. The donation included complete Kenny Collection saw a major increase fore will deal only with printed books runs of the Symphony, with Professor Lee Lorch’s major donation donated last year. of books, pamphlets and periodicals Just before she retired, Rachel Grover, relating to the radical left. From Mrs. Edna’s predecessor, acquired an Yvonne Allen we received a scrapbook incunabula edition of the works of Saint that will be of interest to Kenny scholars: it Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1227-1274). This is a minute book of the Parkdale Chapter Dominican theologian spent most of his of the Co-operative Commonwealth short life involved in the service of his Federation from 1934-1936, including order. He worked incessantly, travelling news clippings of CCF activities in To- long distances to preach, to take part in ronto, a fascinating example of local church councils or to be consulted by the politics of that era. Pontiff. It has been said that no theolo- The Fisher Library’s Duff Collection of gian, with the exception of Saint Augus- books on fine printing will be consider- tine, had more influence on the theologi- ably increased by Luanna Peters’ donation cal thought and language of the Catholic of reference books and items issued by the Church. His works are of great importance Typophiles of . Among the for both their philosophical and for their treasures we found the very rare Spinach theological content. He is perhaps best from Many Gardens (1935). Made up of known for the Summa Theologiæ (sum of thirty-one bibliographically distinct items, all known learning). As the outward it includes illustrations by various design- appearance of the Mrs. Grover’s copy did ers, and was printed by separate presses. not reflect the importance of its contents, One of sixty copies produced, our copy she commissioned Emrys Evans, the Fisher (no. 48) belonged to Lester Douglas and Library’s conservator, to create a new contains his bookplate, designed by Bruce binding in a style appropriate to the age of Rogers. Rogers signed his contribution, as the work. This resulting magnificent did eleven other Typophiles. Douglas was volume will join our steadily increasing director of art and printing for the United collection of works printed before 1501, States Chamber of Commerce for twenty- and will ever be a tribute to the design five years and responsible for the design skills and workmanship of our master Title page of William Shortt’s Gesta of all of that organization’s publications, as binder. Emrys will also be retiring this Anglo-Americana. well as a leading book designer and an June and we are very pleased to have authority on typography. This donation been able to add another one of his also includes extensive archival materials special bindings to our collections. Tafelmusik, and the Aldeburgh Connec- relating to Douglas and his collaborators. I always look for themes when writing tion. The Shaw and Stratford Festivals are Among the many other items is a large this article and what is very evident as I go also well represented, as are the Crest, the assortment of Typophile chapbooks, through the sheets of gift-in-kind forms, is Red Barn, Theatre in the Dell, Second City previously in the possession of Arno the number of donors who are interested and Tarragon. This gift constitutes an Werner, a Typophile and well-known in birds, left wing politics, and theatre. important addition to this Library’s Theatre Massachusetts bookbinder. The chapbooks 2

Before television and movies consumed our free time, so-called pulp magazines were popular diversions. The gift of Donald McLeod indicates the variety of these ephemeral publications. While listing the many titles for appraisal, I felt myself tempted to glance through and sometimes read aloud to my colleagues in the work room, paragraphs from Daring Confes- sions, Detective Yearbook, Private Confes- sions, and Sky Fighters. Although I have never been driven to purchase The National Enquirer (enquiring minds want to know), these sometime naïve magazines do have an appeal of their own. Dr. Robert Brandeis has often been listed in these reports as a major contribu- tor to our Penguin Collection, and that was the case again this year. One of his gifts during 2001, however, indicate that Images this page and facing page: his collecting interest is not confined to Examples of pulp magazines donated by that familiar format. Late in the year, Don McLeod. Robert left a slim volume on my desk. It turned out to be an edition of Lewis Carroll’s The Game of Logic (, 1887) with quite a wonderful provenance. On 6 arrived in custom leather-backed cases May 1894, Carroll met the schoolgirl Mary created by Werner to house the collection. Agnes Wilson and asked her to dine in his We are most grateful to Luanna and Ron rooms at Christ College, Oxford. She did Peters for this munificent addition to our so a week later and at that time, Carroll holdings presented her with this work. She subse- Our German language holdings quently dined with him in November, and received a welcome boost thanks to the in June of 1895, Carroll took her and a generosity of Martin Landmann. In his friend to see a matinée of The Merchant of mother’s collection we found limited Venice with Ellen Terry. Wilson later editions of Friedrich Hölderin’s Antigona married Arthur Stanley Ramsay (1867- (Bern, 1921), Heinrich Mann’s Die 1954), President of Magdalene College, Ehrgeizige (München, 1920) and a German Cambridge. Their son, Arthur Michael translation of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Ramsay was Archbishop of Canterbury Crusoe with eighty-five drawings by from 1961 until 1974. Richard Seewald, including two originals The Fisher Library lost a very good signed by the artist. From Mr. Landmann’s friend with the death last spring of own collection we received, among other Professor H. Gordon Skilling. He was interesting items, a limited edition of 1880, and with the ink stamp of Madan chiefly responsible for the establishment of Goethe’s Faust, bound in parchment, and Falconer, it was purportedly written by a the Czech and Slovak collections at the decorated with intricate initials. “Diodorus Huronicus”. The text is in Fisher Library and right up to the week of A limited edition of Horace’s Carmina Greek and relates to , American his death was doing research here. It was Alcaica printed by St. John Hornby at his Indians, the French and Indian War, the my very sad task, together with Harold Ashendene Press was one of several American Revolution and the war of 1812. Averill of the University Archives, to assist interesting additions made to our holdings Lithographed in Exeter by the author, it is, the family in selecting materials to be by the Fisher Library’s Director, Richard as the Latin translation of the title page added to both our institutions. Our Landon. His gift also contained the rare states, a “liber singularis”. Professor Czechoslovak holdings are now almost Gesta Anglo-Americana by William Shortt. Landon also found the first issue of the doubled by the addition of works on the Research has found only three other first journal devoted to television. Volume Masaryk family. Gordon had just published copies in the United States, but none in 1, number 1 of Television: A Monthly a work on Czechoslovakia’s first President, Canada. Presented by the author to Magazine, came out in March 1928, only Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, and was Richard Lynch Cotton, the provost of two years after the medium is generally working on English and Czech versions of Worcester College Oxford from 1839 to said to have been invented by J.L. Baird. his book on Alice and Olga Masaryk. The 3

Manuscript Gifts in 2001

ardens and manuscript collections contained a draft manuscript entitled “UK are rarely compared, but they do manuscript. This is the UK-manuscript G have one thing in common - they from which both Alias Grace and The grow. The collections of literary manu- Blind Assassin arose.” Early manuscript scripts and personal papers of the Thomas drafts of both books are already to be Fisher Rare Book Library continue to found among her papers. Another early flourish, thanks to the generosity of its draft of The Blind Assassin, “The Angel of Friends. Bad Judgment”, with the author’s holo- One donor, Dr. J. Murray Speirs, a graph notes, was also part of the donation long-time Friend, bequeathed his own along with other papers. David Donnell’s papers to the Library. After his death last gift had holograph drafts of two of his September the Fisher received his “Daily books—China Blues and Water Street Bird Journals” (257 volumes), dating from Days. Earlier drafts of these books are 1923 to 2000, (with only two short gaps among his papers. Phyllis Grosskurth’s from 20 September 1939 to 30 April 1940, donation included early drafts and pre- and from 24 July to 19 December 1940) paratory research material relating to her along with his “Daily Bird Records”, 1922 biography of Melanie Klein, together with to 1949, “First and Last Sightings Records”, photographs not used in the book. There 1922 to 1990, and his research records are also early drafts of her book on Freud family has also donated a superb portrait from the 1930s and 1940s. His findings on and his colleagues, which now join other of Gordon, which now adorns the walls of the American robin, and the Lincoln drafts of both books already in the one of our reading rooms. sparrow, for which he and Mrs. Speirs Grosskurth Papers. W.J. Keith’s corre- Sneaking in just under the wire, Ralph wrote the account in Bent’s life histories spondence with fellow Canadian authors Stanton’s donation of works by French and series, are to be found among his research was in his donation, along with the literary classical authors, will considerably aug- records. They constitute a new collection manuscripts of Jack Hodgins, Hugh Hood, ment an already strong collection in those for Fisher and complement other collec- and John Metcalf that Keith edited. Jack fields: eight volumes of poetry and prose tions of ornithological papers, namely MacLeod gave a revised draft of his presented to the Académie française in the those of A.E. Allin, James Baillie, Gerry unpublished novel, “Uproar” for which the seventeenth century, many works by Jean- Bennett, and C.H.Douglas Clarke. Library has earlier drafts entitled “Dream- Galbert Campistron and Philippe Néricault- Sometimes a gift with only a verbal ing a Beach”. From Michael Millgate came Destouches, an incunabulum edition of account of its provenance is documented notes, drafts, and proofs for Thomas the Historia Ecclesiastica by Eusebius, and by papers already in the Library. Last year, Hardy’s essays, speeches and miscellane- another of Robert Gaguin’s Compendium for example, a package arriving from ous prose that he edited, Thomas Hardy’s super Francorum gestis (Paris, 1500), Vancouver contained a portrait of James Public Voice; and the working papers of together with a superb twelve-volume set Mavor, a chalk drawing by Frederic the Hardy scholar and co-editor, Richard L. of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Lessore. James Mavor’s Papers contain Purdy, assembled for their multi-volume Marivaux’s Œuvres Complettes (Paris, correspondence from Lessore to Mavor Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. 1781). Yet another incunabulum in the referring to the drawing and thanking him Karen Mulhallen continued to add to form of a 1497 edition of Joannes for his hospitality during his stay in her editorial and business files for her Trithemius’ Liber de triplici regione Toronto. The portrait was presented to literary magazine Descant. Miriam Ofseyer claustralium et spirituali exercitio Professor Mavor’s grandson, Mavor Moore, sent additional letters and files of artists monachorum was among the approxi- by the grandson of the man to whom with whom her husband, Otto Schneid, mately 450 titles delivered in late Decem- Mavor had given it, James Loudon, had corresponded in preparation for his ber. president of the . It is biography of Jewish artists. Eric Ormsby’s Our Friends have been very generous especially fitting that the Library should gift contained his early unpublished poetry this past year and we thank them all for receive this just before the University and short stories, including juvenilia, as their continued support. began its 175th year celebrations. well as drafts of his two recent publica- Luba Frastacky Such a connection with manuscripts tions, Facsimiles of Time: Essays on Poetry Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library already at the Library is usual with literary and Translation; and Araby. Joe papers where earlier donations may Rosenblatt’s gift included manuscript drafts contain drafts or notes pertaining to the of “Lunatic Muse” and “Parrot Fever” along latest or final draft, included in the most current gift. Margaret Atwood’s donation …continues on next page 4

…continued from previous page with visual collages. Josef S˘kvoreck´y sent Farewell to our Colleagues two television screen plays, “Little Mata Hari of Prague”, described by Milos Forman, the famous director as “eminently t the end of June we will be saying farewell to four of our entertaining”, and “Poe v Hoboken”. colleagues who are retiring from the Fisher Library: Emrys Evans, Various drafts of two detective romances, Edna Hajnal, Yvonne Huang, and Jennifer Ramlochan. Their “Setkání Letech, s Vraˇzdou” and “Setkání A na Konci Éry, s Vraˇzdou” co-written by his years of service add up to an astonishing combined total of 120 years. wife, Zdena Salivarová, were also a part of Emrys Evans, our Conservator since 1967, has introduced several this gift. generations of staff to the basics of safe handling of rare book material. In the donation of David Solway were His voice, and his exacting standards, remains our guide in all that we drafts of published and unpublished poems and essays that included revisions subsequently undertake. With a designer’s eye, and a firm hand, he has and corrected proofs of The Lover’s mounted each of our exhibitions, and thus elegantly brought the collec- Progress: Poems after , and tions to the attention of visitors from both inside and outside our commu- of new poems for his forthcoming “The Properties of Things”. Earlier drafts of nity. His years of service leave behind an enduring legacy of thousands poems in The Lover’s Progress are already upon thousands of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and paper artifacts housed among his papers. Eric Wright’s cleaned, restored, cased, boxed, encapsulated, unfolded or otherwise gift included early unpublished writings, along with drafts of his memoir, Always treated so that they can remain accessible to future generations of schol- Give a Penny to a Blind Man; and of his ars. novels Death of a Sunday Writer; Death on Edna Hajnal is well known to many of our Friends who have donated the Rocks; The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn; collections of papers in her role as librarian responsible for our manu- Death of a Hired Man; and also of the novella, The Last Hand, co-written with script holdings. Undaunted by the announcement that yet another sixty or Howard Engel. George Fetherling gave one hundred cartons of material has arrived at our loading dock, she has drafts and proofs of his book, A Biographi- approached each new accession with keen curiosity and tireless energy. cal Dictionary of the World’s Assassins; as well as books that he edited such as The Her enthusiasm and knowledge of the collections, her quiet courtesy, and Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs. her willingness to take that extra step to accommodate both donors and An unexpected gift came from the researchers have been appreciated by many over the almost twenty years University College Book Sale: about a hundred glass slides used by Dr. Charles she has been at Fisher. Best in his lectures, which have been Yvonne Huang will be much missed by her colleagues, not least added to the collection of his papers held because she always seems to be the one we turn to when help is needed. by the Fisher Library. Other gifts came Her ready smile, unassuming presence, and loyalty to the department are from William Blissett who donated material for the Robert Finch Papers. qualities that do not appear in any job description, but foster a positive Eleanor Cook gave a typed transcript of working environment for all. Yvonne is a living demonstration of the her interview with Margaret Atwood. The truism that good service to users is dependent on the service we provide Champlain Society sent supplementary records. Stephen Gilbert added thirty-three to each other internally in the Library. Her unfailingly reliable presence in original drawings from his book Outline of the workroom and in the Reading Room set a service standard for all of Cat Anatomy with Reference to the Human us. to the collection of his anatomical draw- ings. Suniti Namjoshi contributed manu- Jennifer Ramlochan also has an impressive record of service, having script drafts connected with writing been with the Library in various capacities for thirty-two years. For many workshops that she organized. From the of those years she, too, worked with the Fisher manuscript collections. estate of Claude Stewart came the diary of While on duty in the Reading Room she has helped many a puzzled user George Wilson who lived in Toronto and who kept a daily journal from 1928 to to unravel the mysteries of a finding aid, or to photocopy those few 1938. The estate of Dorothy Millichamp pages before the Reading Room closed for the weekend, or to track gave research papers connected with her down that elusive book on the hold shelf. The workroom will not be the work at the Institute for Child Study. Richard Pennington also added to his same without her. collection of papers. Thus the growing Those of us left behind will miss our colleagues, on a personal and a season for manuscript collections extends professional level. We salute them for a job well done, and wish them all throughout the year. Edna Hajnal the best in their life ‘after Fisher’. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 5

Alice Prochaska Presents the First David Nicholls Memorial lecture

n Tuesday 12 February Alice the library staff and their many contribu- and local interests in scholarly materials, Prochaska, University Librarian at tions to the University of Toronto Libraries. questions of ownership, and the obligation OYale, presented the first David Prior to her appointment at Yale, Alice of curators to make manuscript treasures Nicholls Memorial Lecture entitled Prochaska had spent nine years as Direc- as widely available as possible. She “National Collections, Global illustrated her talk with examples Collecting.” from the collections The David Nicholls Memorial including the Lindesfarne Gospels Lecture was established by Hilary which are the subject of a claim of Nicholls in memory of her late repatriation; Mozart’s catalogue husband David. The annual which raises the complex issue of lectures in this series will be holocaust spoliation; and the devoted to the topics of librarians, Beowulf manuscript which is now libraries and collections. In accessible electronically. In the thanking Hilary, Carole Moore, digital environment, there are Librarian, recalled fond many new possibilities, and memories of David Nicholls. The images can now be shared across Library is fortunate to have one of the globe. But the ethical and David’s wonderful photographs professional dilemmas are essen- hanging in the chief librarian’s tially the same as they have been office. The University of Toronto at least since the European Libraries are even more fortunate Reformation initiated the first great to have exceptional loyalty and dispersal of manuscripts and other unswerving commitment of the Alice Prochaska, Hilary Nicholls, and Carole Moore. works of art. Nicholls. We are immensely A standing room only audience indebted to Hilary for the many ways in tor of Special Collections at the British thoroughly enjoyed Alice Prochaska’s which she continues to support libraries Library. Her talk focused on issues fascinating talk. The evening concluded on campus, and we thank her for this connected with manuscript collecting with a reception involving enjoyable marvelous new lecture series in memory through the ages. It took into account the refreshments and entertaining conversa- of David, established in appreciation of interactions between national, international tion.

Donors to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in 2001 of Gifts-in-Kind Ms. Elvi Aer Mr. M.F. Feheley Professor Simon Langlois Mr. Joe Rosenblatt Mrs. Yvonne Allen Mrs. Julia Fenn Mr. Andrew Lesk Mr. Michah Rynor Mr. Hugh Anson-Cartwright Mr. George Fetherling Professor Lee Lorch Margaret Atwood Professor Michael Finlayson Mrs. Elizabeth J. Scott Ms. Laurel Sefton MacDowell Ms. Elizabeth Silvester Mrs. Caroll Bishop Mr. Stephen Gilbert Mr. Don McLeod Estate of Professor Professor William Blissett Mr. Sheldon Godfrey Mr. J.T. McLeod H. Gordon Skilling Dr. Robert Brandeis Miss Charity Grant Professor Michael Millgate Professor Josef S˘kvoreck´y Professor Phyllis Grosskurth Estate of Professor Professor John Slater Professor William J. Callaghan Mrs. Rachel Grover Dorothy Millichamp Mr. Arthur Smith Professor Elspeth Cameron Mr. Jearld Moldenhauer Daniel Solway Champlain Society Ms. Jen Hardacre Mavor Moore Estate of J. Murray Speirs Mrs. Elizabeth Collard Ms. Maureen Harris Mr. Hugh Morrison Ms. Rosemary Speirs Professor Eleanor Cook Mrs. Nona Heaslip Ralph Stanton The Venerable Professor Peter Heyworth Estate of Professor Professor Karen Stein Samuel Craymer Hannibal Noce Mr. Claude Stewart Mr. Kyle Jolliffe Miss Christine Donald Mrs. Miriam Ofseyer Mr. Vincent Tovell Mr. Kildare Dobbs Professor William Keith Mr. Eric Ormsby Mr. David Donnell Mr. George Kleisner University College Alumni Mrs. Florence Drake Mrs. Luanna Maria Peters Association, Booksale Estate of Mrs. Julie Landmann Mrs. Bella Pomer Committee Mrs. Barbara Ensor Mr. Martin Landmann Mr. Eric Etchin Professor Richard Landon Mrs. Harley Reid Mr. Eric Wright Mrs. Norma Ridgeway Dr. J.R. Wynnyckyi 6

The Library of King George III

Visitors to the on Great was listed for sale by Jonathan A. Hill of Russell Street in Bloomsbury, after passing New York and a phone call to his cell through the main entrance, and traversing phone (I distrust e-mail for critical commu- the Granville Room to the Manuscripts nication) secured the prize. In due course Saloon, would enter what has been called three very large heavy parcels arrived in “one of the noblest rooms in London”. my office, the purchase having been made This was the King’s Library; a single possible by the David Nicholls Memorial gallery three hundred feet long, forty-one Fund. feet wide, and thirty feet high, with a A great deal has been written about the central section fifty-eight feet wide. Its long life and reign of George III. In the shelves contained some 65,000 books and popular mind he is chiefly remembered 19,000 pamphlets, the collection formed for “losing” the American colonies, and for by George III between 1763 and 1820 and the madness which clouded the end of his given to the nation by his son, George IV reign. He was sometimes known to his in 1823. The room is still there, but the contemporaries as “Farmer George” but he books have, since 1998, resided in a six- was also a sophisticated patron of the arts, story glass tower in the middle of the new including painting and music. His great British Library at St. Pancras, where they cultural accomplishment, however, was form the focal point of one of the world’s the formation of his library, the size and greatest research collections. significance of which places him squarely Frontispiece to vol.1 of the Bibliothecæ About eighteen years ago I ordered, in the company of the Duke of Regiæ Catalogus. from an antiquarian bookseller’s catalogue, Roxburghe, Earl Spencer, Richard Heber, a copy of Bibliothecae Regiae Catalogus, and Thomas Grenville as one of the great did not buy more collections en bloc, but the catalogue of the King’s collection, bibliophiles of his age, or, indeed, any rather pursued individual acquisitions compiled by Sir Frederick Augusta other age. through the numerous auction sales in Barnard, his librarian, and published in When George III ascended the throne London and on the Continent. In 1768 he five large folio volumes between 1820 and in 1760 at the age of twenty-two he did sent Frederick Barnard, who became his 1829. This magnificent catalogue, sumptu- not inherit much of a library. His grandfa- sole librarian in 1774 (but who was not, as ously printed by William Bulmer and ther, George II, had donated what came to was often rumoured, his natural half- William Nicol, was not available for sale be known as the “Old Royal Library” to brother) to Europe for three years to and was a well-known rarity by the mid- the fledgling British Museum in 1757. Even collect on his behalf. Before leaving nineteenth century. I failed to obtain it before he began his own collection, Barnard consulted Samuel Johnson who then and have been searching for it ever George III became a donor to the Museum was accustomed to read in the library, by since. Earlier this year a set containing the in 1762, when he purchased and turned then housed in the great octagon room in even more elusive sixth volume, which over the 2008 volumes of Thomason the Queen’s House ( Palace). describes the maps, prints, and drawings, Tracts containing 22,235 pamphlets, new Johnson responded with a long letter of sheets and a few manuscripts, all from the advice, which was first published in Vol. I period 1640 to 1660. On 8th January 1763 of the Bibliothecae Regiae Catalogus, and he began collecting in earnest with the which included his vision of a Royal purchase, for £10,000, of one of the Library: collections formed by Joseph (Consul) “… a Royal Library should have at Smith (1682?-1770), the long-time British least the most curious edition, the representative in Venice. Smith had most splendid, and the most useful. published a catalogue of the collection in The most curious edition is com- 1755, an unusual feature of which was a monly the first, and the most useful whole section of “Præfationes et Epistolæ” may be expected among the last. describing the incunables. This collection Thus of Tully’s Offices, the edition of was especially rich in editions of classical Fust is the most curious and that of texts and examples of early European Graevius the most useful. The most printing, with a not surprising emphasis on splendid, the eye will discern.” the work of Italian printers. It contained Johnson’s interest in the King’s Library for instance the 1488 Florence Homer, and was quite personal as one of the memora- the first edition of Dante (1472), but also ble encounters of his life took place in the the 1462 Mainz Bible, printed on vellum. library at the Queen’s House. Boswell This glorious beginning lay the founda- records that in February 1767 while tion for a collecting policy that was Johnson was reading a book by the fire Sir Frederick Augusta Barnard. followed for almost sixty years. The King the King came into the room and engaged 7

George Nicol was able to buy for him the land’s sale in 1786 for the Bedford Book of 1460 Catholicon by Johannes Balbus (for Hours (or, Bedford Missal as it was then £5/10/-) and most of the books printed by known) by James Edwards, the Pall Mall William Caxton, including the first edition bookseller from the family of famous of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1476), bookbinders of Halifax, who paid £213/3/-. which cost £47/16/6, the Recuyell of the At his sale in 1815 the King was out of the Histories of Troye (1473), and Gower’s running and the Marquis of Blandford Confessio Amantis (1483). The Anthony outbid John North with £687/15/-. The Askew sale in 1775 yielded more volumes Bedford Hours did finally come to rest at of classical antiquity. Askew also owned the British Museum in 1852 (part of seven the copy of the second folio of Shake- manuscripts for £3000) and remains one of speare (1632) that had belonged to King the glories of the collection. Charles I, who had annotated the book on The library of George III, magnificent the eve of his execution “Dum Spiro though it is (a on paper Spero”, and left it to Sir Thomas Herbert. which nicely complements Thomas George III was outbid by George Steevens Grenville’s copy on vellum, the four Folios on that occasion, but in 1800, at the of Shakespeare etc.) was seen essentially Steevens sale Mr. Nicol secured it for him by him as a working library, its purpose (for 18 guineas) and it remains in the rather grandiloquently expressed by Royal Library at Windsor. The sale of John Barnard as “collected upon such a com- Ratcliffe, a Southwark chandler whose prehensive and liberal design of embrac- interest in antiquarian books was said to ing every species of knowledge, that the have been aroused by the leaves he Possessor of it can call to his aid, upon bought as wrapping for his wares, any subject, all the Learning and Wisdom Above: Title page of vol. 1 of the occurred in 1776 and more than fifty which the mind of man has hitherto Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus. Caxtons came under the hammer. The communicated to the world”. Its acquisi- Centre and bottom: Two views of the great King acquired some twenty of them, and tion in 1823 raised the British Museum octagon room in the Queen’s House so his library prospered. English literature Library into a position of pre-eminence as (Buckingham Palace). was not neglected and at the sale of one of the world’s great national collec- tions. The bequest of the him in extensive conver- Grenville Library in 1846 sation. When asked consolidated that whether he was engaged position and provided in any particular literary the basis for Panizzi’s project Johnson replied transformation of the that he thought he had institution. George III’s already done his part as a library had cost £120,000 writer. “I should have of the king’s own thought so too, (said the money, and no sover- King,) if you had not eign ever left a greater written so well”. Johnson bibliographical legacy to observed to Boswell that his nation. “no man could have paid Richard Landon a handsomer compli- Thomas Fisher ment; and it was fit for a Rare Book Library King to pay. It was decisive”. When asked by another friend Richard Farmer in 1798 whether he had made any reply Johnson (the Shakespearean declared “No, Sir. When the King had said scholar whose chief it, it was to be so. It was not for me to interests were “old port, bandy civilities with my sovereign.” He old clothes, and old also remarked to Barnard; “Sir, they may books”) he was able to talk of the King as they will; but he is the fill a great many impor- finest gentleman I have ever seen”. The tant gaps. He was not library was available for use even by those always successful and, scholars whose views he disapproved, indeed, was said to have such as Joseph Priestly. refrained from bidding if The collection and its royal progenitor he knew that a poor were fortunate in the number and quality scholar required a of the collections which appeared for sale particular book for during the last quarter of the eighteenth research. He was, and first quarter of the nineteenth centu- however, squarely outbid ries. At the James West sale in 1773 at the Duchess of Port- 8

The Tribute album presented to Moses on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday

Sir Moses Montefiore

oses Montefiore (1784-1885) was The Lovers of Zion 1890. Eventually it was overtaken by the one of the greatest and best- One of Montefiore’s pet philanthropic rising tide of the Political Zionist move- M loved statesmen and communal projects was settlement in the Land of ment led by Theodore Herzl. leaders in all of Jewish history. Born in . On his frequent visits to the Holy In order to facilitate planning and in 1784 to an Italian-Jewish family Land he lent financial and political support consolidate leadership and activities the that had settled in in early to the struggling new settlements. It is not Hovevei Zion sponsored several confer- eighteenth century, Montefiore belonged surprising, therefore, that he should have ences. The first of these took place in to the Sephardic Jewish aristocracy of the been held in particularly high esteem by Kattowitz (Katowice), Eastern Prussia (now period. In 1803 at the age of nineteen he Poland). The Warsaw group of Hovevei became one of the twelve Jewish brokers Zion presented a proposal for a settlement licensed by the and was project in honour of Montefiore. It was allowed to have a seat on the London originally intended that the conference Stock Exchange. He married Judith Cohen, coincide with the hundredth birthday of sister-in-law of Meyer Amschel Rothschild. Montefiore which fell on 27 October, but His firm acted as brokers for the the conference had to be delayed and was Rothschilds, an association that brought not held until 6 November of that year. Moses considerable wealth. His personal Among the fund-raising projects by the wealth enabled him to retire from the Hovevei Zion was the sale of a photograph Exchange at the age of forty and devote of Montefiore along with a poem in his himself to communal and other interests. honour penned by the famous poet Judah He was among the founders of the Leib Gordon. Thousands of these were Imperial Continental Gas Association, sold and funds used to support the which extended gas lighting to the major settlements of the Biluim, or early settlers cities of Europe. He was a fellow of the of the . This photograph Royal Society, was elected sheriff of the featured in the album sponsored by the City of London in 1837 and was knighted Hovevei Zion movement which was by Queen Victoria on her ascension to the presented to him on his birthday. throne. For forty years, from 1834-1874, he The presentation was made at served as president of the Board of Ramsgate by David Gordon (1831-1886), Deputies of British . the editor of one of the most influential Montefiore visited the Land of Israel Hebrew newspapers of the time, ha- seven times between 1827 and 1875. He Maggid, and an important spokesman for helped set up hospitals, agricultural the Hibbat Zion (Love of Zion) movement. settlements, built synagogues, residences and monuments. He helped the Jewish The Tribute Album communities in Syria, Russia, , The album contains paeans of praise to and Romania by intervening with their Photograph of Sir Moses Montefiore. From the Montefiore and signatures of communal governments to alleviate the suffering and Hovevei Zion Tribute Album, 1884. leaders of twenty Jewish communities, ten persecution of their Jewish citizens. from Poland ten, from Russia. Poland is Sir Moses’ philanthropic work on behalf the members of the Hovevei Zion or represented by the Warsaw community, of beleaguered and oppressed Jewish Lovers of Zion movement. This movement which instigated this project, as well as communities throughout the world which began in Russia and Poland after Bialystok, Brest-Litovsk, Lublin, Mezritsh brought him accolades and expressions of the Russian pogroms of 1881 had as its (miedzyrzec), Kovno (Kaunas), Mitau, admiration and praise on many occasions. goals the establishment of settlements in Riga, Vilna (Vilnius), and Zgierz. Russian But no event in his life was marked with the land of Israel, and the encouragement communities represented are: greater ceremony and outpourings of of immigration to build up the Jewish Ekaterinoslav, Minsk, Moscow, Odessa, affection and admiration than his one- population. An independent state was still Pinsk, Poltava, Rostov-na-Donu, Staro- hundredth birthday, truly a remarkable not even a dream. The movement strug- Konstantinov, and Vinnitsa. Individual milestone in anyone’s life, but one which gled along throughout the 1880s and 1890s leaves were prepared and signed in the warranted special attention because of Sir with only limited success. It was officially separate communities and then all were Moses’ stature in the Jewish world. recognized by the Russian government in sent to Warsaw, where the album was put 9

together and bound. The binding is very providing the poor with sabbath provi- presented to the Fisher Library several ornate, decorated with wood-carvings in sions), hevrat pidyon shevuyim (society for years ago by Mr. Albert Friedberg. How relief, including Montefiore’s initials and redeeming captives) and others. Among did it disappear from the library of the . Various biblical verses are the fifteen societies and study-houses in Montefiore estate and end up in the included in the spaces between the Kovno are: somekh noflim (supporters of possession of Mr. Friedberg? We may carvings. The album is housed in a special the fallen), malbish arumim (clothing the never know the full answer to this puzzle. wooden box, finished in leather. The naked), lehem la-aniyim (bread for the But suffice it to say that after Sir Moses’ binder, Numa Nirnstein, signed his work poor) and tomkhei (supporters of death, chaos reigned in his estate and and was obviously very proud of it. the sabbath). unconscionable things were done to his While this album is certainly important The status of the signatories vis-à-vis archives and other records. Much of his as a piece of Montefioriana, perhaps the Hovevei Zion is not always clear. Many personal correspondence was destroyed most elaborate written tribute ever sign on behalf of other organizations by his private secretary , after presented to the great man, it is arguably alongside the leaders of Hovevei Zion, and he had published what he felt to be the more important for the historical informa- quite probably were not actually members most important letters among them. Of the tion it contains pertaining to the leadership of the movement. In all likelihood they two thousand letters of tribute presented of the Hovevei Zion movement and the simply took the opportunity offered by the to him on various occasions, only about communal structure and leadership Hovevei Zion initiative to pay homage to a four hundred remain. Most were de- makeup of the various communities beloved benefactor and statesman. stroyed. When the Montefiore Library was represented in the album. The album Nevertheless, the willingness of these transferred to Jews’ College many items contains some 1300 signatures from the communal leaders to associate their names seem to have disappeared. This album for twenty communities represented in it (the with this project sponsored by Hovevei instance is not listed in the Catalogue of exact figure is difficult to determine as Zion could be an indication of the broad the Manuscripts of the Montefiore Library some of the signatures are run together sympathy and support the movement had published in 1904. I have only found one and are often difficult to read). Some have among the leadership in various communi- reference and brief description of it in a only a few, others have over two hundred. ties. book on Montefiore published by S.U. The actual signatures can tell us who the Historians and genealogists may find in Nahon in 1965. leaders of the movement were. In some these lists evidence of community mem- cases, the leaders are well known, in other bers who are not attested in other sources. Conclusion cases less so. For instance, the Warsaw For some of the communities represented The Hovevei Zion tribute album is a sheet includes the signatures of Saul here, e.g. Kremenchug, Rostov-on-Don, precious artifact attesting to the love and Pinhas Rabinowitz, and Hayyim Zelig Vinnitsa, there are no yizker-books admiration felt towards Sir Moses among Slonimski. The former was the secretary of (memorial books describing the commu- the broadest segments of the Jewish the Hovevei Zion Warsaw branch and the nity and listing important members,), so a community, feelings which cut across latter a well-known rabbi. Among the list of names of communal leaders from denominational and political lines. At the Vilna signatories is Samuel Jacob Fuenn, a the late nineteenth century is a precious same time it is a significant source of well-known author and historian, and find. information about the leadership of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph, who later moved to Furthermore, the number of signatures Hovevei Zion movement and about the New York City and attained prominence from each community, while indicative of makeup of many Jewish communities in there. its size can also give us some idea as to Eastern Europe. Some of these communi- In larger cities the leaders of various the strength of Hovevei Zion in that ties are well-known and much studied; societies signed and affixed their seals, community. One hundred and twelve about others we know relatively little. This giving us an insight into the communal signatures from the little known commu- volume provides important primary source structure and the wealth of associations nity of Kremenchug is a significant material about communal structure, levels and charitable groups which existed in historical witness. The additional fact that of acculturation, patterns of leadership, some communities. Thus for example, the two of the signatories are rabbis, one a rav identities of important figures in these sheet for Kovno (Kaunas) has the famous mi-ta’am ha-memshalah, a rabbi ap- communities, and much more. This rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor as first pointed by the government, and the other enhances its value as a focus for primary signatory followed by various dayyanim the rabbi of the Habad (Lubavitich research. The Fisher Library is proud to (rabbinical court judges). For the commu- Hasidic) community is intriguing. A provide a home for this important histori- nity of Mitau there are signatures repre- comparison with historical works on the cal document. senting many cultural and philanthropic movement and its relative strength in societies including: Talmud (sup- various areas of Russia and Poland may Barry Walfish porters of Torah study), Hevrat ha-nashim necessitate revision of assessments of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library mish’an la-aniyyim (the women’s society relative strength and activity of the for support of the poor), Hevrah Tehilim movement in these areas. (society for saying psalms for the sick), Hevrah le-kalkalat anshe ha-tsava be- Provenance ma’akhalot kesherot (society for providing The album, probably the most impressive soldiers with kosher food), Hevrat ba’e tribute ever received by Sir Moses, was shabbat (presumably, a society for 10

In Memoriam In Memoriam Elizabeth M. Collard (1917-2001) and Edgar A. Collard (1911-2000) Hannibal Noce (1915-2001)

Not all the great Friends of the Fisher Library Yesterdays”, a series based on his collection Another close Friend of the Fisher Library regularly attend the lectures and exhibition of Canadiana, especially in its ephemeral who we had not seen in Toronto for some openings that constitute most of our pro- forms. His column appeared every week for years was Hannibal Noce, who died in th gramme of events. The Collards (and it is fifty-six years without a break. Betty’s field Vancouver on 6 October 2001. He had difficult to write of them was the history of ceramics been a Professor of Italian Literature at the separately) were absent in Canada and she wrote University of Toronto for many years and physically because they the authoritative book on a notable benefactor to the collections of lived in Ottawa and were the subject. She was the Fisher Library for much of that period. disinclined to travel in their especially interested in the Hannibal’s special field was seventeenth, latter years. Elizabeth Collard importation of English blue- and eighteenth-century Italian drama, his (Betty to her many friends) and-white ware into edition of Martello setting the scholarly died on New Years Eve Canada during the nine- standard. 2001, having been pre- teenth century and He also, in some senses, represented deceased by Edgar in the collected an internationally an old-fashioned kind of book collecting Fall of 2000. Their interest reknowned assemblage of which has had a significant impact on in, and concern for, the pieces for use in her institutional research collections. When he collections of the Fisher research. Both Collards came to the University of Toronto the fact Library have resulted in a were members of the Order that the collections of Italian literature wonderful series of gifts of of Canada. were good, but not outstanding, provided books and manuscripts and The Collards moved to him with an incentive to collect the a bequest of an endowment Ottawa in the 1970s and primary sources in his specialized area. He fund that will ensure that the first visited the Fisher also had bibliophilic impulses and was collections continue to grow. Library over twenty years fortunate to be able to travel to Italy and Edgar and Betty were people, ago. Since then we have maintained close other parts of Europe when the books he with deep roots in the Anglo culture of contact and it is sad to realize that we can no sought were plentiful and inexpensive. He . Edgar was born and raised in longer look forward to tea and conversation had the charming and useful habit of Montreal and spent his career in journalism in their book and porcelain filled apartment in leaving the prices he had paid in his with the Montreal Gazette, acting as its Editor Ottawa. Their legacy, however, lives on and books so that later generations can marvel for many years. Most remarkably he wrote a will be fulfilled, as they had decided all those at the bargains that were to be had all weekly column for the Gazette called “All Our years ago. those years ago. Hannibal was born in Italy, but raised in the North Beach area of San Francisco, where his neighbour was Joe DiMaggio. In Toronto he lived elegantly at 45 Prince Arthur surrounded by his books and art. Our Summer Exhibition He liked good food and good wine, and his pipe and his ancient Mercedes. In Expectations and Experience: The World of tion’, explores the way in which medieval retirement, however, he fell in love with the Medieval and Renaissance Traveller and Renaissance geographers mapped Vancouver and never tired of extolling the continues the travel theme of our previous their world, drawing upon geographical sunsets. His final gift, delivered by his exhibition, Mirabilia Urbis Romae. The theory based on ancient Greek sources as exhibition is mounted in conjunction with transmitted by fundamental classical Latin executor, was, very appropriately, the a symposium sponsored by the Humani- works such as Pliny’s Natural History, 1623-35 edition of Martello’s Opere. ties Centre at the University of Toronto, Solinus’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium, and is held on the occasion of the 2002 and Macrobius’ In Somnium Scipionis. The cally and culturally removed from the Congress of the Social Sciences and second section, ‘Tabula scripta: the East’, familiar lands of Europe. The third section, Humanities. The Congress, which has not illustrates the way in which the west’s ‘Tabula rasa’, explores the way in which been held in Toronto since 1974, will conception of the east was shaped many of the tales traditionally associated bring together approximately eight through a body of travel literature from the with the east were transposed to these thousand delegates from one hundred late Medieval period, that focuses on the new lands. Included here are early scholarly associations over an eight day fabulous and mysterious East, a term used accounts of the new world such as period (May 25 – June 1). Curated by Pam generically to refer to India, Ethiopia and Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia Gravestock, the Associate Co-ordinator for Asia. These works, which circulated Universalis, as well as examples of the Congress 2002, the exhibition explores the widely in manuscript, took the form of way in which cartographers began to re- theme of the cultural encounter of east pilgrimage accounts, wonder books, and work their world maps to reflect new and west. missionary and merchant accounts — the information received from explorers. The exhibition is divided into three most famous and enduring being those by The exhibition will be on display at the thematic streams. The first, entitled ‘The Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo. Like Fisher Library from 21 May to 30 August. classical inheritance: theory and applica- the east, the new world was geographi- An illustrated catalogue will be available. 11

Members of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2001 – 2002 Patrons Associated Medical Services, Margaret Atwood*, Stan Bevington, Cassels Brock & Blackwell, Albert and Nancy Friedberg*, Suzanne Gayn, George Kiddell, Mark McLean, Louis Melzack*, Hilary Nicholls, Alec Pathy, Dorene Seltzer, John Slater*, Ralph Stanton*, Moses Znaimer*.

Associate Stefan Dupré, Freda and Patrick Hart Green, Garrett Herman, William J. Keith, John T Mayhall, Joseph Pope, James Rainer, Richard E. Rooney, Bruce Vance, Wentworth Walker, Michael Walsh, John Weatherall, Jay Okun Yedvab.

Sponsor Harry and Marian Ade, Cicely Blackstock, Janet Dewan, Florence Drake, Chester and Camila Gryski, Grace Heggie, Carol & Richard Helmstadter, Marie Korey, Richard Landon, George W. MacCready, Duncan McLaren, Carole Moore, Yannick Portebois.

Supporting Barbara Abramson, Peter and Jocelyn Allen, Hugh Anson-Cartwright, John H. Astington, Walter Bachinski, Donalda Badone, Louis Badone, John L. Ball, Michael Black, , Harald Bohne, Walter M. Bowen, Alvan Bregman, D. Grant Brown, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Eberhard Buehler, John Burbidge, Lind Canzona, John Chau, J. Geoffrey Chick, Dorothea M. Cook, James Craig, Leonard Dajernahum, Malcolm Davidson, Denis DeKlerck, James Doak, C. Jane Dobell, George Dutton, William Edwards, John J. Elder, Peter Enneson, David Epp, M.F. Feheley, Paul F. Ferley, Derek Fisher, Pat Fleming, Robert Fulford, Natsuko Furuya, George J.M. Gale, J.H. Galloway, Gayle Garlock, Greta Golick, Wayne Gooding, Rachel Grover, Damian Gryski, Mary Gurney, H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C., Tina Hadjidimitriou, Francess G. Halpenny, Sidney M. Harris, Drew Hasselback, Charles Christie Hill, Elmar C. Hodsoll, Alan Horne, Mary Hughes, William B.G. Humphries, Elisabeth A. Jocz, Ken Johnston, Kyle Jolliffe, Karin Kattai, Johanna Katz, David E.A. Keenleyside, Maggie Keith, Brian Kennedy, Anne Kenshole, Harvey Kerpneck, George P. Kidd, David B. Kotin, Ian Lancashire, John B. Lawson, Q.C., Portia Leggat, Larry Levenstein, Bruce Lewis, John Leyerle, Katharine Lochnan, Paul Lockwood, James D. MacCallum, Marion Magee, Dina Gordon Malkin, Katharine Martyn, Hartwig Mayer, Alexander G. McKay, Betty McKinstry, George B. McLaughlin, Don McLeod, Philip Meany, Ann P. Melvin, David Michaelides, Jane and Michael Millgate, Kathryn Mills, C.W. Mollins, Karen Mulhallen, Ralph A. Nablow, Rose Newlove, Alberta Nokes, Richard O’Connor, Richard Outram, Emilio Passani, Robin Patterson, Luba Pendzey, John and Mitzi Pepall, Karen Press, Mildred Price, Jennifer Puncher, Enrico Rota, Carol Rothbart, Robert Russel, Paul G. Russell, Thomas T. Schweitzer, Michael J. Sidnell, Elizabeth Silvester, Joanna M. Simon, J. Robert Smith, Wiebke Smythe, Carlo Spadoni, Robert Stacey, Andrew M. Stewart, Christina Duff Stewart, Timothy Stewart, Patricia E. Stone, William Stoneman, Richard Storr, Anne Sutherland, Steve J. Szigeti, Almos Tassonyi, C. Adrienne Taylor, Steven Temple, Spencer L. Timm, John B. Tinker, Liz Tinker, Harry Underwood, Guy Upjohn, Nancy van der Poorten, Jean V. Wheeler, Jean Whiffin, Brenda Whitlock, Kenneth Whyte, Roger D. Wilson, Stephen Wilson, Eric Woodley, Elaine J. Zinkhan.

Individual Sheryl Adelkind, K.R. Bartlett, Bernard Baskin, John Beckwith, Patricia Belier, Gerry and Elizabeth Bentley, R.H. Blackburn, William Blissett, Graham Bradshaw, Robert Brandeis, Marjorie Bronfman, Virginia Brown, Henry C. Campbell, James P. Carley, Ruth-Carroll, Sharon Chandler, Mercedes Cirfi Walton, Alan W. Conn, Eleanor Cook, Reed and Jane Cooper, Linda Corman, Mark Critoph, Christopher J. Cronin, Natalie Z. Davis, Matt Doyle, Susan Duff, Peter B. Edwards, Betsy Palmer Eldridge, Mary Ellen Fenwick, Gillian T. Fenwick, Lois Fleming, Sally Gibson, Maxine Goldberg, Elaine Granatstein, Alastair Grant, Victoria Grant, Antonia Greenwood, Phyllis Grosskurth, Peter Hajnal, David M. Hayne, Robin Healey, Fred David Hoeniger, Leslie Howsam, Ann Hughson, Ann M. Hutchison, Heather Jackson, J.R. De J. Jackson, Valerie Jacobs, Asher Joram, Helen R. Kahn, Jane Kay, Lila Laakso, David Mason, Elizabeth Mathews, Ivan McFarlane, Leslie McGrath, Randall McLeod, Helen McNeil, Mary McTavish, Dan Mezza, Russell Morrison, Hugh W. Morrison, Harvey Olnick, Eleanor M. Parke, Larry R. Pfaff, Phyllis Platnick, Lauren D. Rachlin, Joan R. Randall, Eric Robertson, Marian Robertson, Ann Robson, André Rosenbaum, H. Michael Rosenstock, Andrea Rotundo, John Rush, Peter J. Savage, Roger M. Savory, Martha Scott, Arthur Smith, Helen B. Smith, Randall D. Speller, Judith G. St. John, Dana Tenny, Herbert Tenny, Michael R. Thompson, Douglas F.S. Thomson, Leslie Thomson, Stephanie R. Walker, Germaine Warkentin, Leon S. Warmski, John Whaley, Mary Williamson, Joan Winearls, Frederick E. Winter, J.D. Wrigglesworth, James Yates.

We thank all members who wish to remain anonymous.

*Major gift in kind donors are listed at the Patron level. 12

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Exhibitions 2002~2003 Planned Events 2002~2003 Wednesday 26 February Exhibition hours: All lectures begin at 8:00 p.m. The David Nicholls Memorial Lecture 9 ~ 5 Monday to Friday “Elective Affinities: Private Collectors & All exhibition openings begin at 5:00 p.m. Thursday 10 October Special Collections in Libraries” The John Seltzer and Mark Seltzer 21 May – 30 August Alice Schreyer, Director of Special Collec- Memorial Lecture Expectations and Experience: The World tions Research Center, University of “Reflections on Rarity” of the Medieval and Renaissance Traveller Library. Bruce Whiteman, Librarian of The William 7 October – 20 December Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. Thursday 27 March The University of Toronto: Snapshots of its The Gryphon Lecture on the History of Monday 25 November History the Book The Alexander C. Pathy Lecture on the Exhibition opening Tuesday 29 October “Artist Between Two Worlds: John Book Arts Buckland Wright” “Typography and the Digital Cartier” 3 February – 2 May Roderick Cave, author of The Private Press Henry Vizetelly: His Life and Career Rod McDonald, type designer and lecturer and many articles on the private press and Exhibition opening Tuesday 11 February at College of Art. fine printing.

Editor’s Note Friend’s Publications This issue was edited by Gayle Garlock and Philip Oldfield, and “The Moment” by Margaret Atwood designed by Maureen Morin. Com- A limited, signed edition of this poem, ments and/or suggestions should be hand printed by The Massey College sent to Gayle Garlock, Director, Press. Accompanied by a digital copy of Development and Public Affairs, a revised manuscript of the poem, University of Toronto Library, To- printed for an evening with Margaret ronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 (416) 978- Atwood. Broadside in a folder, 7655. limited to 100 copies, $100. The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the Friends of The Thomas Fisher Rare Chicory Book Library is published twice a year A woodcut of a chicory plant in November and June. Halcyon from Mattioli’s sixteenth century includes short articles on recent herbal. noteworthy gifts and acquisitions of Printed the Fisher Rare Book Library, recent from exhibitions in the Fisher Library, the activities of the Friends and other original short articles of interest to the Friends. wood Members of the editorial board of block by Halcyon are Gayle Garlock, Editor, William Philip Oldfield from the Fisher Library, Reuter. and Maureen Morin from the Informa- Broad- tion Commons. side, opies of the limited to Cfollowing 125 copies, private press publications commis- $100.00. sioned by the Friends of the Fisher Order Library are available. from Darlene Gibbings & Grey and , Busi- The Charm of Birds ness Office, Robert Gibbings’ wood engravings for 6th Floor Grey of Fallodon’s The Charm of Birds, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, printed from the original blocks by the Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5, or by email Barbarian Press. 76 pages, limited to 300 at [email protected] copies, $140.