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HALCYON THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY ISSUE No. 59, June 2017 ISSN 0840–5565 Another Exceptional Year Loryl MacDonald Interim Associate Chief Librarian for Special Collections and Director, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library he June issue of The Halcyon is tra- nineteenth-century Canadian Pacific Railway would give you a brief summary of some key ditionally an overview of the purchases photo album, we added many rare and impor- purchases made during the year. made during the previous fiscal year, tant items to our research collections. In this One of the highlights was the acquisition Tnoting some of the highlights newly acquired issue, Graham Bradshaw, P. J. Carefoote, David of a 1507 printing of The Golden Legend, now for the collections. Acquisitions that were Fernández, Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Natalya the oldest English-language book at the library, diverse, encompassing many different subject Rattan, Elizabeth Ridolfo, John Shoesmith, and among the oldest English books in Canada. areas, time periods, languages, and formats and Lauren Williams contribute articles on Widely read during the Middle Ages — some made 2016–2017 exceptional and exhilarating. recent purchases in their areas of expertise consider it even more popular than the From a fourteenth-century Italian missal to a and interest. In the meantime, I thought I Bible — The Golden Legendrecounts fantastic IN THIS ISSUE Another Exceptional Year | Not Lost in Translation: Orwell’s Animal Farm Among Refugees and Beyond the Iron Curtain | “Wonderful
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