HALCYON THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY
ISSUE No. , December ISSN –
A B G Jennifer Toews and Natalya Rattan Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
come, once again, to and irreplaceable, their legacies endure at the from trees planted in Norway for that express thank our many generous manuscript Fisher Library. purpose. General and specific press related to donors. We received almost more gifts M A is the first writer this project; material for Stone Mattress: Nine Tthan there is space to write about them. During to contribute a new, secret manuscript entitled Tales and e Handmaid’s Tale ballet by the the past year or so, we have had to bid fond ‘Scribbler Moon’ to the Future Library, a public Royal Winnipeg Ballet; as well as drafts, notes and sad farewells to many old friends: Frances artwork project undertaken by Scottish artist and other material related to e Heart Goes Dafoe, Mavis Gallant, Stephen Gilbert, Phyllis Katie Paterson, which will ‘unfold’ near Oslo, Last, including extensive editorial notes and Grosskurth, George Jonas, Jack MacLeod, and Norway. ‘Scribbler Moon’ will be published comments by Ellen Seligman, were deposited Vincent Massey Tovell. Talented, remarkable a hundred years from now on paper made during this past year.
IN THIS ISSUE A Bounty of Gifts | Choice Treasures, Tested and True | To Our Donors: Our Deepest Appreciation | Printed Gifts in : “Do Books Matter?” | William Johnston Donation of Early Modern Books | ‘Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest’: e Gift of a Book of Common Prayer | “Idle time, not idly spent”: Angling Collection Arrives at the Fisher Library | A Promise Broken and a Promise Kept: e omas Schweitzer Donation of Aliquando Press and Locks’ Press | e Ronald Cohen Collection of Literary Frauds and Hoaxes | Donors of Gifts-in-Kind to the omas Fisher Rare Book Library | Events and Exhibitions
OPENING PAGE: Frances Helen Dafoe with costumes she designed. Gift of Frances Helen Dafoe. BELOW: Travel article written by Kildare Dobbs. Gift of Linda Kooluris Dobbs. FACING PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Sketch of Lawrence Hill by Karin Hadfield. Gift of Lawrence Hill. Photograph of Phyllis Grosskurth, part of her final gift to the Fisher. Lorna Goodison with Edward Chamberlin. Gift of Lorna Goodison and Edward Chamberlin.
R B and D Wayne and Shuster show and Mr. Dressup, B gifted drafts, notes, submissions, the closing ceremonies of the Winter and other material for the Oxford University Olympics, and the Charlottetown Festival. Press Anthology of Canadian Literature; editorial As a freelance designer, Frances created work by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown on costumes for many professional performers, various manuscripts, including Lorna Crozier, dancers, and figure skaters, including Michael Michael Tregebov, and Doris McCarthy; Burgess, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Alan icke, correspondence; a Sheila Watson file relating Al Waxman, Karen Kain, Isabelle Brasseur to her PhD thesis; and other material related and Lloyd Eisler, Kurt Browning, Scott to the work of Bennett and Brown. Hamilton, Elizabeth Manley, Elvis Stojko, rough the support of the Joan Walwyn Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi. In Randall Fund, we received the correspondence Frances published a book, Figure Skating: Eight between M B and Lana Peters Centuries of Sport and Inspiration. She was with the assistance of Professor Rosemary awarded the Order of Ontario in and Sullivan. e papers include letters and notes the Order of Canada in in recognition of sent by Lana Peters (Svetlana Alliluyeva her contributions to costume design and sport –, daughter of Joseph Stalin) to Mary in Canada. In her final donation to the Fisher Burkett, a prominent British felt artist and Library we received drafts of Figure Skating and historian, over a twenty-year period from the Arts: Eight Centuries of Sport and Inspiration; to . Print articles about Svetlana Alliluyeva files pertaining to an exhibition she worked on during and after her defection to the United entitled ‘Art Forms of Skating’; many costume States from the Soviet Union in also form design sketches; design booklets; personal magazines); his contributions to CBC Radio part of the papers. figure skating files; photographs; skating programs such as ‘Anthology’ and ‘Ideas’; a M B donated drafts and notes memorabilia; family records; skating-related large amount of travel files pertaining to the for e Reason for Time, You Again, Casting tapes and CDs; and other materials relating places he visited and wrote about from all the Angel, e Last Resort, and Presto!; writing- to her life and work. around the world; a significant amount of related and personal correspondence; her blog; is year the Fisher received a substantial correspondence; personal files and documents and columns from e Yukon News, including donation from L K D, relating to his family’s history; professional ‘Soapbox’ from the s. wife of poet, short story and travel writer, files including cutouts and printouts of his P J C donated K D (–). Kildare published articles; photographs; notebooks his delightful fifty-year correspondence Dobbs was born in India, raised in Ireland, and and journals; audiovisual and digital materials; (–) with Robert Finch, as well as audio educated in Dublin, Cambridge, and London. and other files relating to his life and work. cassette recordings of Finch reading his poetry, After serving in the Royal Navy during the F, S G (New speaking, and playing the piano (recorded in Second World War, and subsequently in York) donated corrected first pass proofs and the s). e Library also holds the papers Tanganyika (Tanzania), Dobbs migrated to ‘foul matter’ for e Poetry of Derek Walcott, of Robert Finch. Canada in , where he worked in journal- –. J C gave research, notes, ism and publishing as the managing editor of G F donated his and other background material for The Saturday Night and book editor of e Toronto personal and professional files and correspond- Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings Star Weekly. During his distinguished career he ence; his personal journals—selections from of Anne Wilkinson. contributed to most of the major magazines and which form the basis of e Writing Life: is past September we lost the brilliant newspapers in Canada as a freelance writer. His Journals, –; the Twentieth Anniversary F H D (–). autobiography, Running to Paradise (), won edition of Travels By Night proofs; scrapbooks of Frances Dafoe was a costume designer and a Governor General’s Award. He also published his ‘Ephemeral Newspaper Scribbling’; reviews; former Olympic figure skater who competed various collections of short stories, novellas, and and other material related to his life and work. with Norris Bowden. Together they captured poetry. He was awarded the Order of Ontario L F F of the Siena- four Canadian titles and two World Figure in and installed as Writer-in-Residence Toronto Centre based at the University of Skating Championships, winning the silver at the University of Toronto in . Dobbs Siena has begun to donate papers related to the medal at the Winter Olympics. With the lived in Toronto with his wife, Linda Kooluris many author events held in Siena and Toronto conclusion of her skating career, Dafoe worked Dobbs, a noted portrait artist, painter, and through their multi-year exchange program. as a costume designer and Olympic judge. An photographer. In he received the Order of G G donated his extensive employee of the CBC for almost forty years, Canada. Included in this donation are drafts correspondence and other material related she designed costumes for a variety of popular of his published works; other writing drafts to his own writing and to his work with the television shows and festivals, including e (including his writing for newspapers and Harbourfront International Author’s Festival.
Nettleford and Derek Walcott; ink doodles and drawings; appearances; photographs; and issues of Saturday Night, for which J. Edward Chamberlin edited the illustrated Canadian poetry pages from January –January . M. E G gave the Reverend George Tsukornyk’s papers to the library. George J. (Iurii. Ia.) Tsukornyk was a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and teacher who composed and arranged Ukrainian music and directed choirs throughout Canada. He was born in Zhuravna, in the Zhydachiv region of Ukraine on April , and died in Ontario on May . Tsukornyk received his musical education from the Lviv State Conservatory and continued his studies in Vienna. He immigrated to Fort William, Ontario in , and held his first concert there on May of that same year. In he was ordained to the Orthodox priesthood. e papers include selected correspondence; a daily journal he kept while pastor of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Oshawa; as well as speeches and concert programs given at several Ukrainian Orthodox parishes. e final gift of P G includes drafts, research notes, photographs, editorial and other material related to her biographies of Melanie Klein, Margaret Mead, Freud and his circle, Lord Byron, Havelock Ellis, and John Addington Symonds — the bulk pertaining to Klein, Byron, and Freud; psychoanalytical research, conferences and activities; personal and professional cor- respondence; travel and research. e gift of M S H includes materials relating to writing and literary projects such as drafts and proofs for the Fieldnotes Chapbooks series; a significant amount of correspondence with specific individuals (Lynda Lange, Norma Lundberg, M. C G donated at the University of Toronto as a part-time Barry Dempster, and Irene McGuire); guest anatomical drawings and illustrations by her lecturer. He also authored Pictorial Human lectureship at the University of Toronto; as late husband, S G. e Embryology in and Outline of Cat Anatomy well as journals and materials used in the Stephen Gilbert papers include anatomical with Reference to the Human in . Gilbert organization of various literary events and drawings of the adult human, adult embryo, also worked as a tattoo artist and historian, readings. cat, fetal pig, dogfish, necturus, frog, and editing and providing the introduction to L H added to his already other assorted zoological drawings. Stephen Tattoo History: A Source Book: An Anthology extensive papers with drafts, research and Goltra Gilbert was born January in of Historical Records of Tattooing throughout correspondence related to e Book of Negroes, Portland, Oregon. Over a period of twelve the World () (as Steve Gilbert). including the illustrated edition and the years he produced six zoological anatomical L G and J. E screenplay for the televised series; interviews for atlases including: Pictorial Anatomy of the C donated drafts, proofs, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice; notes, drafts, proofs, Fetal Pig (), Pictorial Anatomy of the Frog notes for From Harvey River; early drafts copy-editing, and other material for e Illegal (), Atlas of General Zoology (), Pictorial of ‘Supplying Salt and Light/Oracabessa’; (early title ‘Underground’), his fourth novel Anatomy of the Cat (), Pictorial Anatomy Travelling Mercies; By Love Possessed; drafts and tenth book; personal and professional of the Dogfish (), and Pictorial Anatomy for the unpublished ‘e Book of Amber’; correspondence; appearances; extended family of the Necturus (). In , Gilbert joined Controlling the Silver; personal and profes- material; awards; photographs; notebooks; the Art as Applied to Medicine program sional correspondence, including with Rex short pieces, including ‘Africville Forever’;
BELOW: Photograph of Jack MacLeod. Gift of Jack MacLeod. Clay block sold by Dora Mavor Moore to raise money for the New Play Society. Gift of Diane Plant. FACING PAGE: Ink drawing by Julian Samuel. Gift of Julian Samuel.
she was the Managing Editor, Director of Publishing, Vice President of Publishing, and the President and Publisher of McClelland and Stewart. She was also the Publisher for Macmillan of Canada, President of MGA Inc., and the Vice President of Sterling Lord Associates. She also developed the Literary Agenting Specialization in the Humber Book Publishing Program. In October she was the recipient of the Ivy Award, which is an annual prize presented to a person who has e latest gift of the papers of K made a substantial contribution to Canadian M includes editorial and admin- publishing. is first accession of Linda istrative material for several issues of Descant McKnight’s papers consists of writers’ files, Magazine. e papers also contain some of primarily for her clients: George Jonas, Guy Mulhallen’s personal and professional files Gavriel Kay, Dennis Lee, Susan Perly, Scott related to her writing and career as a professor. Symons, and Margaret Visser; professional Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, correspon- correspondence; administrative and agency dence, and images related to her personal works files relating to Westwood Creative Artists, Key form part of this gift. In particular, these files Porter, Stoddart, and the Google Settlement hold drafts and notes for Zippered Marsh, Code with authors; and other material related to Orange, and e Pillowbooks. Karen Hill’s Café Babanussa; and material her work. Poet, librarian, and Islamic scholar E related to e Massey Lectures: Blood: the In December , writer A O donated correspondence, essays, Stuff of Life and e Deserter’s Tale. M was appointed the new director of articles, lectures, curriculum units for Ismaili e gift of humourist and novelist J the National Library in his native Argentina. Institute courses, translations, and other ML includes photographs, notably is position has been held by many distin- material. Ormsby won the prestigious World of Richard E. Spencer and Shirley Douglas guished figures, including Jorge Luis Borges. Book Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran, at the unveiling of the Tommy Douglas His yearly donation to the Fisher includes , for his translation of Between Reason bust at the Saskatchewan Legislature; notes manuscripts and page proofs for some of his and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled: for his Reflections in My Wintertime; and latest work, such as Curiosity (), as well as an annotated English Translation of Nasir-I correspondence and other material related various other writing projects he is working Khusraw’s Kitab-I Jami’ al-hikmatayn. His early to his diagnosis of terminal cancer. Professor on. Also in this donation are correspondence, drawings from the s, a book proposal for Jack McLeod taught in the Political Science including a significant amount with notable a children’s book on pets, illustrated by his Department at the University of Toronto literary figures such as Mavis Gallant and Doris brother, Allan, as well as other early material from to and was a frequent political Lessing; essays; articles; material pertaining to form part of this gift. Notebooks containing commentator on CBC television. various literary events, lectures, and seminars, ideas and early drafts of poems and short pieces, S MI donated correspon- including his own literary festival, Atlantide; as well as more contemporary colour sketches dence from Mavis Gallant to his mother, periodicals; research files (for Curiosity and the complete this donation. Joan McInnes, dating from the s to Five Cities tour project); personal photographs; Artist C P gave some the s. Simon’s father, Graham, first met and other material related to his life and work correspondence and files relating to projects Mavis Gallant at the National Film Board primarily in the years between and . (such as the Simcoe Mural Project: ‘In Search when they both worked there in the s, Editor, writer, and critic J M of Simcoe’) and exhibitions; files relating to and subsequently renewed their friendship contributed drafts for his upcoming work, e his honorary doctorate from the University in Paris when he became UNESCO ambas- Canadian Short Story, and drafts for ‘Lives of Toronto in ; correspondence regarding sador in . We continue to receive gifts of of the Poets’ and ‘A Passion and Delight’ his appointment as an Officer of the Order of correspondence from friends of Mavis Gallant, (e John Metcalf/Tim Struthers Interview Canada; as well as some general correspon- such as Steven Barclay, Phyllis Springer, and Book). Also included in his donation are other dence, invitations, and press clippings. others. e Journals of Mavis Gallant: – writers’ files; correspondence with various Playwright, actor, and director M are forthcoming. authors; correspondence relating to Biblioasis, P was born in Edmonton, Alberta is year the Fisher received a donation including Biblioasis’s reprint series, ReSet; in and grew up in Calgary. Panych has from literary agent, L MK, correspondence and drafts for Best Canadian directed over eighty productions, and has writ- who among her other accomplishments, has Stories; Humber School for Writers mentoring ten over thirty plays, including Stories (), been a director, shareholder, and Vice President files; photographs; and personal journals and Vigil (), Lawrence & Holloman (), Girl of Westwood Creative Artists Ltd. Previously, scrapbooks. in the Goldfish Bowl (), e Dishwashers
(), Sextet (), and e Waiting Room writing projects in Québec, Toronto, and While a student at York, Sherman co-founded (). Two-time recipient of the Governor elsewhere; drafts of his forthcoming novel and edited the literary journal WAVES. From General’s Award ( and ), Panych has ‘Radius Islamicus’, with reader’s comments to he traveled extensively through worked primarily in Vancouver, Montreal, and by Jonathan Garfinkel, Rawi Hage, Michael Asia. He began his teaching career in at Toronto. Panych often works in conjunction Ryan and others; as well as screenplays and York’s Atkinson College. He is now a full-time with his husband, Ken MacDonald, whose other material related to his life and work. He faculty member at Sheridan College, where set and costume designs have been important has produced and directed a number of films he teaches Humanities and Communications, components of his plays. is first-time gift that examine the historical and contemporary and also teaches a course in creative writing contains numerous drafts of Panych’s pub- relationship between the Western world, the at York University. lished works, along with production materials Middle East, and Asia. Notable films include is year D S donated mate- such as costume sketches and plots, set design Atheism (), Save and Burn (), and rial related to his new musical career, ‘Some drafts, and lighting plots, and a number of e Library in Crisis (). Julian Samuel was Reflections on Music, Poetry and Politics’ personal documents, including photographs born in Lahore, Pakistan, and immigrated and ‘Blood Guitar and other tales’; his music and report cards from his childhood. with his family to the United Kingdom, and CD; drafts and notes for his new political D P donated a few items related subsequently to Canada. He completed a BA book ‘Saving the Neighbourhood’; new poetry to Dora Mavor Moore and Francis W. Mavor in Literature at Trent University, and an MFA manuscripts ‘e Fault’, ‘Songs of the Common Moore that were found in Ms Moore’s home, in Photography at Concordia University. He Day’, and ‘e War Against the Past’; and other including some notes, financial files, a booklet is the author of Passage to Lahore () and material related to his life and work. belonging to Francis Mavor Moore from the Lone Ranger in Pakistan (). e third accession of Jungian analyst, Wright Aeronautical Corporation, and a clay R S was born in New York C S includes writing and block with the inscription ‘N.P.S. Building City in , and grew up in Montreal, Québec. editing files for works such as On Psychological Fund’, an item Dora Mavor Moore sold to While studying English and Philosophy at and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung’s raise money for the New Play Society. McGill University in the s, Sarah began Lecture on Gérard de Nerval’s Aurelia (); P P P added writing poetry. In , with Fred Louder, Countries of Invention: Contemporary World to his extensive collection on Insurgency and she co-founded a small press, Villeneuve Writing (), which includes an introduction Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine. Publications, and co-edited its poetry by Alberto Manguel; and Between Worlds, e J R gift of Charles chapbook series. During this time, and until a teacher resource book from . Also Ritchie papers includes extensive early personal , Sarah also taught English at Champlain included in the donation are notebooks and correspondence between Charles Ritchie and Regional College in St. Lambert, Québec. is correspondence; files pertaining to confer- his mother, his brother Roland ‘Roley’ Ritchie, gift contains drafts and proofs for a number of ences, education, teaching, and professional his uncle Charles Stewart, and Anne Maher; Sarah’s published monographs, including Little associations; and other material related to his typescript diary drafts, –, for publica- Eurekas (Biblioasis, ), A Day’s Grace (e life and work. tion; old family and personal photographs; as Porcupine’s Quill, ), and e Touchstone: A S donated manuscripts well as other writings and various material Poems New and Selected (Anansi, ); cor- for his books, including drafts for e Dogs related to his life and work. respondence; and drafts of her contributions () and other novels such as e Resurrection is first gift of filmmaker, writer, and on Margaret Avison, Don Coles, and George of Mary Mabel McTavish (), Curse of painter J S includes profes- Johnston to the Porcupine’s Quill Essential Poets the Dream Witch (), and Grave Robber’s sional correspondence regarding his film and series. Materials relating to Sarah’s editorial Apprentice (), as well as some drafts work for Cormorant Books and House of Anansi for unpublished work. e donation also Press are also included, together with material included professional files such as contracts pertaining to her involvement in numerous and correspondence; personal files; addenda literary events. for plays such as Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii First-time donor K S donated () and earlier plays; juvenilia; and other his drafts and notes for: Black Flamingo, Cost material related to his life and work. of Living, Jogging with the Great Ray Charles, R S donated her Clusters, My Father Kept his Cats Well Fed, and research notes, including drafts, correspon- Words for Elephant Man. Poem drafts, early dence and other material related to her work, essays, course work from York University, and particularly her very successful historical literary correspondence from the s to the biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s s (with such authors as Irving Layton, Daughter. is accession is comprised of Seymour Mayne, Eric Ormsby, Cynthia Ozick, correspondence with friends and family of Robyn Sarah, Joe Rosenblatt, Czeslaw Milosz, Svetlana Alliluyeva (Lana Peters), including Philip Roth, and others) also form part of Mary Burkett and Philippa Hill; research and this accession. Kenneth Sherman was born editorial correspondence; research files from in Toronto in . He has a BA from York the FBI, CIA, KGB, and many other sources University, where he studied with Eli Mandel in Russia, Georgia, and the United States; and Irving Layton, and an MA in English notes and travel material; research for ‘ree Literature from the University of Toronto. Suitcases’, an abandoned book on Spanish
BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Obituary for Josef Stalin’s daughter, Lana Peters (Svetlana Alliluyeva). Gift of Rosemary Sullivan. Poster advertising a talk by Vincent Tovell. Gift of Vincent Tovell. Cover of first issue of Ink Magazine. Gift of Georgina Uhlyarik.FA CING PAGE: Community cookbooks from the cookery collection.
Civil War era photographers Robert Capa and and publicity materials relating to all of her a core production and management group of Gerda Taro; Molito, the children’s book she published works to date. Also included are four volunteers. is number expanded to wrote with husband Juan Opitz, illustrated materials pertaining to her editorial work, eleven individuals on the masthead, including by her sister, Colleen Sullivan; teaching and teaching, the professional organizations and Georgiana Uhlyarik, and a number of other course material; creative writing, mentoring, clubs to which she belongs, various poetry volunteers. is donation to the Fisher Library and other material related to her life and work. competitions, and prizes for which she was consists of submissions, paste-ups/proofs of V M T was a man nominated or for which she served as a juror, issues, correspondence with writers and sub- of great charm and wit, known nationally for and a variety of early unpublished works. scribers, promotional materials, administrative his work as a CBC broadcaster and producer. G Udonated for the and financial files, grant proposals, and other Named for his mother’s first cousin, Vincent first time materials pertaining to Ink Magazine, material related to the magazine. Massey, he was a childhood friend of pianist a literary magazine.Ink Magazine was founded B W donated drafts Glenn Gould and a tireless patron of the arts. by John Degen and ran from to . and research for his work on Constantine His extensive work with the Canada Council, It featured some of Canada’s best emerging Simonides and Frances Jammes; drafts, proofs the National eatre School, the National writers as well as some of the country’s most and other material for Intimate Letters; personal Ballet School, Massey College, the National notable figures; the first issue, for example, and professional correspondence; and reviews Gallery, the Glenn Gould Foundation, and paid homage to Canadian poet Al Purdy. Each and other material related to his life and work. many other arts and cultural institutions was issue contained poetry, prose, and compelling Our heartfelt thanks are sent out to widely recognized, including with the Order extended interviews with some of the most the many people who help us in our work, of Canada. He directed and produced many respected artists from Canada and the world, particularly the faculty and staff of the Petro television documentaries. is gift of personal such as André Alexis, Cindy Sherman, Lynn Jacyk Resource Centre, namely Ksenya papers adds to the extensive Vincent Tovell Crosbie, and Graeme Gibson. e journal Kiebuzinski, Nadia Zavorotna, and Wasyl holdings donated to the Library over many included many authors from the Annex area Sydorenko; Raj Ramcharan and his staff in years. in Toronto, such as Chris Chambers, Peter the Shipping and Receiving Department; the This fourth accession of R McCallum, and Alexandra Leggat (all three many other faculty and staff who work with T’s papers contains numerous are included in Ink’s chapbook, Up and Down us, Alexandra Kordoski, Lauren Williams, and drafts of her most recent literary work, Rue Bloor Street), as well as Derek McCormack Danielle Van Wagner; and especially to our des Rosiers, along with correspondence, drafts, and Andrew Piper. Ink began in Ottawa with donors, researchers, and visitors.
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“”, “favour- in this donation. Some of these cookbooks and statements that reflect their values and ites”, and “treasures” appear in were published with defined goals in mind, tastes. Many of the recipe contributors are the titles of many Canadian such as building a new hospital or church, named below their submissions, and group Wcommunity cookbooks, advertising their supporting war veterans and soldiers’ families, members are listed, often along with their practicality and usefulness to the home cook, or honouring someone like Laura Secord, position in the group or organization. Several and recommending them above other avail- while others celebrated major anniversaries of the books have a selection of recipes from able volumes that might have been produced of organizations, cities, or provinces. In some different cultural groups, providing a snapshot far away or reprinted from texts written for cases the group’s goals are not stated, and they of the community and its tastes and activities audiences elsewhere. seem to be assembling their cookbooks as at a particular time. Some contain tips for ese community cookbooks, also called social endeavours, providing support for and organizing a party or a household and have fund-raising or charitable cookbooks, began in sharing their expertise with other members of medical and household receipts, while others Canada with the publication of e Home Cook their communities. incorporate information from Canada’s official Book in and soon became a popular way for e production of these cookbooks required food rules or calorie counting/diet information. women to contribute their energy to local and an enormous amount of cooperation. Groups Adding to the richness of the printed content global philanthropic projects. A gift from turned to members of their communities for are the slips of paper, excisions, stains, and Mary Williamson’s remarkable collection of recipe submissions and sometimes illustrations. manuscript recipes and notations inserted into cookery material consists of a selection of these A committee often edited and tested the these cookbooks which bring us closer to the community cookbooks, including examples recipes and selected the entries that would people who actually used them in the kitchen. from seven of Canada’s provinces, and with be printed. An introduction that included a In her Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography dates ranging from around –. recommendation by a mayor or other official of Canadian Cookbooks, –, Elizabeth e women who put together these cook- made the entire process truly a community Driver mentions that through her research books were united in various ways, often as affair. e language used in the titles or in the she discovered more community cookbooks members of patriotic and social organizations text reassured readers that all of the recipes in Canada than previously had been thought such as the Circle of the King’s Daughters had been tested to produce optimal results to exist, and she discusses the need for more and local branches of the Federated Women’s and represented their best efforts. research into this area of Canadian cookbooks, Institutes of Canada (W.I.), church auxiliary These cookbooks have more to share whose extent and content tend to be hidden as groups and Girl Guides, businesswomen’s about their communities than commercially they are often in private hands. We anticipate associations, farm women’s unions, and local published cookbooks as they contain charming that this collection will be of great interest to women’s co-operatives. advertisements for local businesses (sometimes students and researchers studying Canadian eir cookbooks were usually assembled hand drawn), and include information on how culinary history, women’s history and the with a fund-raising goal or cause in mind, and or when the women’s groups were formed and history of various Canadian towns and cities. a range of efforts to raise funds is represented their aims, along with poems, quotations,
T O D: O D A Loryl MacDonald Interim Associate Chief Librarian for Special Collections and Director, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Atwood, maps to synopsis of printed gifts, and Jennifer Toews multimedia, Latin to Arabic, physical and Natalya Rattan describe gifts of archives to digital, the omas Fisher Rare Book and literary papers. P. J. Carefoote, David FLibrary’s distinct collections are renowned Fernández, Elizabeth Ridolfo, John Shoesmith, worldwide for their incredible breadth, depth Lauren Williams, and Christopher J. Young and scholarly impact. ey support research also have contributed articles on gifts in their and learning across all disciplines on all three areas of specialization. Unfortunately, it is campuses, and draw interest from students at all not possible to detail every donation, but a levels, research scholars from around the world, complete list of gift-in-kind donors is found and the general public. Further, with advances in this issue. to digital scholarship, faculty and students are In addition to gift-in-kind donors, I wish to now engaging with these primary resources in acknowledge those who have made financial new and exciting ways to pursue discovery and contributions for acquisitions by adding to to promote and share scholarship. Also, it is their annual Friends of Fisher membership our unique book and manuscript collections renewal, by arranging for bequests to be made that distinguish us from peer institutions from their estates, or by establishing endowed around the globe. funds to support acquisitions in specific Your gift-in-kind donations are instrumen- subject areas. Endowments and other special tal to developing these top-ranked research funds are important to building outstanding collections. Traditionally, the fall issue of e research collections. I also wish to acknowledge Halcyon is an overview of the previous calendar Christopher J. Young for assisting with all year’s gift-in-kind donations and an opportu- stages of the donation process. Finally, we nity for us to thank our generous benefactors. are also very grateful to Anne Dondertman, is year is no exception and we are pleased former Associate Chief Librarian for Special to acknowledge gifts from over one hundred Collections and Director of the omas Fisher donors, which collectively total almost two Rare Book Library. Over the course of her and a half million dollars in monetary value. time at the Fisher, Anne fostered significant is year’s donation of books and archives was donor connections and made extraordinary diverse, encompassing many different subject additions to the collections. is issue of e areas, time periods, languages and formats. Halcyon and the gifts-in-kind listed herein are In this issue, Christopher J. Young provides a a tribute to Anne’s remarkable legacy.
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we received a book figures, including the media theorist Marshall Canada in Print by our Rare Book Librarian, from D M, McLuhan. In it, McLuhan states that “the book P. J. Carefoote. Every year we are fortunate to intriguingly titled Do Books Matter?; a is on the verge of totally new developments,” have a range of Canadiana materials donated Tselection of papers from e Working Party on perhaps foreseeing the e-Book and other to us, and this year we have been given maps, Library and Book Trade Relations conference formats of textual transmission. McLuhan manuscripts, broadsides, textiles, portraits, for . As a librarian, I frequently assume, himself was an avid book collector whose and, of course, books. without question, that books do matter. Today, personal library with his extensive annotations J D donated twenty-six like in , we are surrounded with declara- and marginalia now sits at the Fisher. In Do eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps of tions, such as “is the book doomed?” that Books Matter? there is also another McLuhan Canada that underline the development of question the relevance of the book in a society annotation, a presentation inscription to Canada before and after confederation. J increasingly saturated by other textual media former President of the University of Toronto, F contributed several documents and technologies. If one were to determine Claude Bissell, that reads “for Claude Bissell, from early nineteenth-century Upper Canada, the future of the book based on today’s media friend of the book and friend of Marshall including a leather-bound ledger belonging headlines, one would surmise that it was only McLuhan”. Whatever the future holds for to John Clary in , a printed broadside a matter of time before the book disappeared books, it has many friends who can be found “Freedom of Elections” dated , a handwrit- from the ‘pages of history,’ so to speak. However, in the thousands of volumes donated to the ten affidavit dated , and three ephemeral books, like all media, are not just transmitters Fisher this past year. We are lucky to have such manuscript notes from approximately . of information and entertainment, they are also generous friends of the Fisher, and the book. J G gave four Geological Surveys conduits of culture that shape our habits and of Canada from the mid-nineteenth century social practices. ey represent our activities, Canadiana that were used to develop a viable Canadian our passions, and our values. is upcoming year we are celebrating the mineral industry by establishing the general Do Books Matter? has several contribu- anniversary of Canada’s Confederation geological base on which the industry could tions from well-known literary and public with an exhibition titled Struggle and Story: plan detailed investigations. M H
OPENING PAGE: Cover of Do Books Matter?. Gift of Deirdre Macdonald. BELOW, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Early map of Canada. Gift of John Dellandrea. Leather-bound ledger belonging to John Clary. Gift of Jan Figurski. Painting by Sir Frederick Banting. Gift of Sheila Campbell. FACING PAGE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Colour plate highlighting the ear, nose, and throat. Gift of Peter Alberti. Decorated envelope. Gift of Katharine Lochnan.
donated several books owned by the group British and European Literature of seven painter A.J. Casson that include As this issue of e Halcyon goes to press, we either his bookplate or his signature. H are displaying a major exhibition at the Fisher R donated a collection of literature titled Moments of Vision on the novelist and poet, by Marshall McLuhan that will be added to omas Hardy. is exhibition is comprised our McLuhan Collection. M R mostly from material within the Hardy gave a range of Canadian literature either Collection that was donated by M Scrap-Book, requesting an advance on her by Canadian authors or printed in Canada. and J M in . Every year work. K L gave seven L W gave a woollen tapestry of the Fisher receives a wide variety of European Shakespearean prints, and N B the Wolfe & Montcalm Monument in Québec literature from our generous donors. While donated a collection of Shakespeare broadsides. City sewn to a cloth-covered board. S the majority of material donated is primarily A M gave an edition of e C donated a collection of six rare British, we also receive and collect a consider- Complete Poetical Works of omas Campbell. paintings by the co-discoverer of insulin, Sir able amount of material in French, German, J M donated a collection of Frederick Banting. S G donated Spanish, and other European languages. modern British poetry, including numerous an extensive collection of modern Stratford R B donated a variety works by Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill. and Shaw Festival theatre programmes. A of British literature, including a collection of W J donated a collection of M donated a edition of Phillippe nineteenth-century yellowbacks and Penguin illustrated nineteenth-century French literature Aubert de Gaspé’s Seigneur d’Haberbille: A paperbacks. A E gave a in exquisitely decorated contemporary bind- Romance of the Fall of New France. Our librarian complete volume set of e Prose Works of Sir ings. S L donated a variety colleague D F gave a first Walter Scott and e Poetical Works of Sir Walter of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French paperback edition of Edward A. Lacey’s e Scott in fine gold-tooled bindings. W literature, including rare books, portraits, maps, Path of Snow. S B donated K contributed a collection of journals, and engravings. L P donated a a small collection of nineteenth-century newsletters, and other literature relating to the comprehensive collection of “World’s Classics” Canadian literature and correspondence novelist, John Cowper Powys. M K and “Oxford World’s Classics” containing from the E. Rodney Cameron family. P donated a diverse collection of eighteenth- and twentieth-century editions of European K gifted a complete series of issues nineteenth-century literature, including a letter literature in the English language. R from e Silver Society of Canada Journal that from the nineteenth-century English poet and B gave an edition of William researches antiques and modern silverware novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon to Robert Kennedy’s e Siege of Antwerp. E in Canada. Fisher, publisher of Fisher’s Drawing Room M gifted an William Pickering
edition of La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato external bodily observation and post-mortem edition of Renaissance scholar Olympia Tasso. M M donated a anatomical dissections. M Y Fulvia Morata’s Works and Letters in Latin, edition of John Fortescue’s De laudibus legum gifted a edition of Christiaan Huygens’ recounting her conversion from Catholicism Angliae. S N gave us a first posthumous works that includes numerous to Protestantism. Julia King, our Graduate edition of Lawrence Durrell’s Sebastian. A fold-out plate illustrations of the laws of motion, Student Librarian Assistant, wrote a detailed T donated several works of modern optics, and astronomy. M P. W feature piece on this item in our previous British literature. donated a copy of Edward Sylvestor Morse: A Halcyon issue, describing its exquisite binding Biography that will be added to our extensive in tawed pigskin. History of Science and Medicine Darwin Collection. is past year we were gifted two exceptional Book Arts and Illustrated Books and extensive collections to our history of Philosophy and eology e Fisher collections hold numerous examples science and medicine collections. M Every year we are gifted diverse materials on the of illustrated books with woodcuts and wood G donated a collection of rare books topics of philosophy and theology. M engravings from the fifteenth century to the on physics and mathematics, including W added over one thousand titles to his present, as well as hand-decorated textual scientific works on mechanics, optics, ther- extensive collections of modern philosophy in materials, such as manuscripts and ephemera. modynamics, electromagnetism, theoretical , enhancing the material he has donated is year we were fortunate to be gifted an physics, and nuclear physics. e collection in previous years to the Walsh Philosophy eclectic range of illustrated materials ranging fills in many gaps within our Science and Collection. J S donated several from print to photography to decorated Einstein Collections, which are currently philosophy books to be added to the expansive envelopes. R C donated copies being catalogued by our librarians, Philip Slater Philosophy Collection. E P. B of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and Inferno, Oldfield and Lauren Williams. P gifted several liturgical books in Scots Gaelic. illustrated by Leonard Baskin and Rico Lebrun, A donated an extraordinary medical R B gave a “Breeches respectively. M H gave collection of material on the ear, nose, and Bible” English edition of the Geneva Bible. a limited, signed Elephant Press edition of throat, consisting of books, pamphlets, D G. H gave a German Ronald Duncan’s Tale of Tails, illustrated by anatomical atlases, stereoscopic plates, and edition of the New Testament. R John Bratby with three-coloured woodcuts. related printed material. Ear, nose, and throat, K gifted an eighteenth- G H gifted a limited edition of or otorhinolaryngology, developed as a field of century religious book with daily devotional his Verwandlung print portfolio of folio-sized medicine during the mid-nineteenth century exercises published under the Royal patronage copper engravings. H L once artificial light sources had become of Queen Maria eresia of Austria. M gave a graphite drawing of a bird with annota- commonplace for observation and diagnosis L donated a folio edition of the tions by Charles Fothergill, a journalist and of the inner ear, nose, and throat. Until that Bible in Hebrew. J S gave political figure in Upper Canada who also point, diseases of the ear, nose, and throat were an Canadian edition of the Methodist had an interest in natural history, and was diagnosed and treated with difficulty through Hymn-Book. T M donated a considered to be Ontario’s first ornithologist;
BELOW: Chinese snuff box manuscript album decorated with watercolour illustrations of snuff boxes Gift of Barbara MacMillan.
M H donated a collection of Philadelphia Area Consortium for History of cookbooks published by churches and hospitals. Science, Technology and Medicine. At the P K donated a small collec- time of writing that article, the collection had tion of Canadian cookbooks. P R yet to be appraised and catalogued. Donated gifted a diverse collection of cookbooks, recipes, by A C in early , the menus, and other cooking ephemera. M Psychical Research Collection includes works W donated an extensive collection that pursue scientific investigation of telepathy, of Canadian cookbooks and cooking ephemera, ghosts, and other paranormal phenomena. including manufacturers of stoves, chocolate, Adam Crabtree actively collected all kinds Junket, Jell-O, and gelatin cookbooks. of works surrounding the field of psychical research, and even published a few works Latin Americana himself on the topic over his career. Having David Fernández, our Rare Books Librarian catalogued the collection myself, I am excited specializing in Spanish, Portuguese and for it to be available for scholars in the history Latin American materials, has gradually of science to use as it was an active field been expanding our collections in this area of scientific scholarship at the turn of the through gifts and purchases. is past year, twentieth century. In January , Natalya R S donated a collection Rattan, our Processing Archivist, and I will be Charles Fothergill’s papers have been at the of twentieth-century Brazilian literature in showcasing a small monthly exhibition at the Fisher since . K L paperback and zines. e collection includes Fisher on the Psychical Research Collection donated a unique collection of hand-illustrated, a first edition, presentation copy of A maçã no titled “Investigating the Paranormal”. watercolour envelopes by the artist Dodie escuro by Clarice Lispector from the personal Other gifts donated this past year included: Masterman. A P gave a library of Elizabeth Bishop. Lispector is S S E’s collection limited edition of e Lost and Vanishing by considered to be one of the most important of Soviet and socialist literature that will be Robin Hill, containing twenty-five colour Brazilian writers of the twentieth century. added to our extensive Kenny Collection; an lithographs. J D donated a copy While also developing our collections, D Arabic manuscript from Ethiopia donated of her work e Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe. F donated a second Argentinian by M G that contains A S donated a Gaspereau Press edition of Wilhem Stekel’s Onanismoy y fragments of the Qur'an; and an extensive broadside titled “June ” and a block print homosexualidad. angling collection from an anonymous donor, illustration by the Canadian artist, H. E. of which our Special Collections Librarian, Bergman. R P donated a Travel Lauren Williams, has written an in-depth superb collection of manuscripts, antiquarian Over the past several years we have gradually feature piece in this issue. books, and private press books illustrated with built an extensive travel literature collection e Fisher Library’s special collections a variety of printing techniques. B containing books, guides, and ephemera on would not exist without the generous contribu- MM donated a Chinese snuff box travel from around the world. One of our most tions by our more than one-hundred donors manuscript album decorated with watercolor significant donors in this area, L P, every year. We are pleasantly surprised at the illustrations of snuff boxes by Fred S. Haines. donated further material to be added to this increasing number of donors who gift us with J MK gifted a first edition developing area of our collections, including collections ranging across traditional topics of Bruce Weber by the Twelvetrees Press Baedeker Guides, Benn Blue Guides, Michelin within the arts and sciences, and emerging containing the collected works of photographer Guides, and Muirhead Guides, along with a areas of interest, such as angling, cooking, Bruce Weber. variety of travel books and literature. S and parapsychology. e eclectic nature of K donated a significant collection the library’s holdings is due to our donors’ Cookery of literature on India including travel books interests and collection practices. I would Since the arrival of our Special Projects with illustrations and maps depicting the also like to thank our former Fisher Director, Librarian, Liz Ridolfo, we have been slowly country and its geographic landscape from Anne Dondertman, our current Fisher Director, acquiring a variety of textual and manuscript the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Loryl MacDonald, our Head of Rare Books material related to cooking and cookery. and Special Collections, Deborah Whiteman, ese materials can include recipes, menus, Psychical Research and the Fisher Library staff for their tireless cookbooks, and cookery ephemera. In , In the December issue of e Halcyon, efforts to connect with the donors who shape Liz will be showcasing this emerging collection Sarah Sussman from the University of Texas at our library’s special collections. It has been an at the Fisher with colleagues Nathalie Cooke Austin wrote a feature piece on the Psychical excellent year for donations, and I look forward and Irina Mihalache and will likely display Research Collection when she visited the to processing more of our donors’ gifts-in-kind many of the items acquired this past year. Fisher as a PCHS fellow, also known as e in the upcoming year!
W J D E M B David Fernández Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
most frequent questions of donors in an effort to explain the nature In the case of the history of science, the we hear from students and visitors of rare books. collection contains the second edition of the to the library is “what makes a book e Fisher Library’s rare book holdings first work on mathematical problems and Orare?” For librarians and archivists working increase significantly every year as private exercises printed in English. First published with rare materials, this question offers an ideal collectors and donors contribute their in as Les récréations mathématiques, this opportunity to engage in conversations about unique items to enrich our collections. is book was immensely popular and influential, the library’s collections with ever more diverse past year, William Johnston donated a col- enjoying over thirty editions in the seventeenth audiences, some of whom already appreciate lection of thirty-eight early modern books century. e edition of Mathematicall the value of “old books”, and others who seem to comprising first or early editions, impressions, recreations displays an outstanding engraved have had fewer encounters with printed books, and translations of works in the history of title page and over fifty vignettes throughout archival sources, and manuscript materials. science and medicine, theology, history, and the text. Other additions to our science collec- Such conversations often start by noting the age literature. Twenty-one of them are new to tions include an early scientific treatise on the of a book as one of the main qualities of rare the collections of the Fisher Library, ten are measures of lengths, weight, and value, printed books, followed by comments on important scarce titles that are only recorded as second in Basel around , and the first edition of a features such as scarcity, provenance, the or third copies in Canada, and four books groundbreaking work on plant anatomy by the reputation of a book or its creators, condition, are not found in North American libraries. English botanist Nehemiah Grew (–). edition, unique physical characteristics, and e collection also includes two very rare e Comparative Anatomy of Trunks, published the role of a publication in major moments in books only recorded in three or fewer copies in London in , introduces new techniques history. ousands of rare books residing on worldwide. Aside from the scarcity of the for observing the inner structure of plants shelves all around us join the conversations as volumes in the collection, what makes this illustrated in twenty-seven etchings, including we normally continue to list the library’s subject set of books stand out is the foundational one remarkable plate printed with white ink strengths, point out specific collections on the nature of several works that introduce new on paper prepared in black with the title “e mezzanine floors, and recognize generations ideas for the first time in print. lesser common thistle” etched onto the plate.
OPENING PAGE: “The lesser common thistle” from The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks. BELOW, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Title page of the 1653 edition of Mathematicall recreations. First printed illustration of an apothecary shop in The Expert Doctors Dispensatory. Illustrations of forceps from the 1734 edition of Cases in Midwifery.
For the history of medicine collections, forceps in , accompanied by engravings “canal of Nuck”, along with the author’s writings some examples include the edition of of two variant types of the instrument. A set on glands and ducts, the first mention of the Cases in Midwifery by William Giffard (d. ), of three titles by the Dutch anatomist Anton lymphatic network of the ovary, as well as the which presents the earliest known account Nuck (d. ), published in the s, contains first edition of a seminal work in the history of of the use of the Chamberlen or obstetrical the first printed description of the eponymous embryology. A new addition to our holdings of early books on materia medica is the first printed illustration of an apothecary shop appearing in an early English translation of e Expert Doctors Dispensatory, published in London in . Foundational texts in other disciplines range from the first work on the art of dyeing cloth in North America to the earliest treatise on the subject of beards, the first casting of Burmese type for printing, and the first essay on colour theory. e Country Dyer’s Assistant, published in Brookfield in , details instruc- tions on how to prepare, use, and preserve dyes, as well as recipes for making various hues, all applicable to the needs of manufacturers using native sources from North America. Pierio Valeriano (–) devotes his Pro sacerdotum barbis (Rome, ) to support the growing of beards in the context of religious life and customs in the sixteenth century. e first edition of Alphabetum barmanum (Rome, ) is part of a group of fourteen missionary works on linguistics of “oriental alphabets” produced between and by the Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda, printed with the first typeface of the Burmese language. An early printing of the first published essay on colours, “De coloribus” by the Italian humanist Antonio Telesio (–) joins the library’s growing holdings of books on colour theory. is acquisition will be of tremendous value for students and scholars in multiple disciplines, with an emphasis on early modern writings on science and medicine, theology, classics, literature, and history. As these books find their way to the stacks of the Fisher Library, catalogu- ers will record relevant information about the rarity of each item. Some books will be noted as first editions, others will have appropriate provenance notes, and several more will take account of illustrations or bibliographical evidence. Soon enough a number of these books will be consulted in the reading room or retrieved for classes or exhibitions. And so begins their new life cycle as rare books to be read, studied, and discussed.
‘R, , , ’: T G B C P P. J. Carefoote Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
the exhibition is one of the greatest religious treasures of liturgical calendar), featuring Collects believed marking the five-hundredth anniversary English Renaissance literature. e history to have been personally written by Cranmer of the Reformation in proceeded of the Prayer Book is one of dynamic tension. himself. e term ‘Mass’ was still permitted Aapace here at the Fisher, it became clear that, A committee of twelve clerics, under the for the Eucharist, and the designations ‘priest’ among the great books that shaped that era, one direction of omas Cranmer, shaped the and ‘altar’, as well as prayers for the dead, were was missing from our collections: the Book new liturgy by trying to establish a balance retained. Nevertheless, it was not received of Common Prayer. rough the kindness of in public worship between the familiarity and with enthusiasm everywhere. One petition long-time friends Janet Dewan and Barbara comfort of traditional Catholic ceremonial from Devon dated June reads in part: Tangney a copy, given in memory of their (especially as preserved in the ancient Sarum We demand the restoration of the Mass in Latin parents Harry and Marian Ade (also ‘Friends of Rite) with the newly reformed Continental without any to communicate, and the Reservation the Fisher’), and of Janet’s late husband Shashi forms of worship. e committee first met of the Blessed Sacrament: Communion in one kind, Dewan, has now been added to our holdings. in September of and had a text ready for and only at Easter: greater facilities for Baptism: It will be displayed alongside early Lutheran publication by January of the following year. the restoration of the old ceremonies—Holy bread pamphlets and Counter Reformation imprints, On January, Parliament passed the Act of and Holy water, Images, Palms, and Ashes. We will startling works of propaganda and devotional Uniformity, making use of the new prayer book not receive the new service, because it is but like a treatises that capture the tumultuous spirit mandatory throughout the realm beginning Christmas game; but we will have our old service of the age — arguably the first revolution on Pentecost Sunday ( June) of . e first of Matins, Mass, Evensong and processions in Latin, facilitated, in large measure, by the invention edition, which appeared the previous March, not in English. of the printing press. two years into the reign of the twelve-year-old e imposition of the new liturgy proceeded, Together with the King James Version of King Edward VI, was relatively Catholic in all protests notwithstanding. e first three the Bible (), the Book of Common Prayer temperament (though with a drastically altered printings were made in London by Richard
OPENING PAGE: Title page from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. BELOW: The reformed instructions for communion resulted in protest.
ascended the throne in , she restored the the Irish. Two years later he was ordered to Prayer Book and had it revised once again to reverse course and restore the Catholic service strike a balance between the sensibilities of books after Queen Mary’s succession. He had her Catholic and Protestant subjects. Her in fact supported Mary’s claim to the throne Prayer Book remained in use until the English over that of her rival, the Lady Jane Grey Civil War when it was formally banned by the (–). His own religious preferences are Long Parliament on January . It was, of unclear, however, since St Leger wrote his last course, surreptitiously used by many royalist will and testament using a Catholic formula families for private worship during the years on October , three weeks before the of the conflict, and some copies even appeared accession of Queen Elizabeth. e Fisher copy with false imprints to avoid prosecution. also contains the autograph and motto of the After the death of the Lord Protector, Oliver mathematician omas Digges (d. ), St Cromwell in , the reprinting of the Prayer Leger’s grandson-in-law, the first Englishman Book slowly recovered, and in , the year of to declare his support for the cosmological the Restoration, nine separate issues appeared theories of Copernicus. in that year alone, with three more printings e Book of Common Prayer is one of in . the most resiliently popular books of English e Fisher copy is the third printing of religious literature. Between and it the first edition (dated May) and originally saw separate issues and between and belonged to the St Leger family of Leeds there were another . All told, there Castle in Kent. From its size it may be inferred have been about five thousand editions and that it was originally intended for clerical use impressions in the course of its long history. It in the chancel rather than private devotion. has been both an agent of change as well as a Among the many inscriptions in the book focus for devotional anger. With the possible Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, the men may be found one for ‘Anthony Saintleger exception of the King James Bible, no other who had previously been responsible for Knighte of the Noble Order [of] the Garter’ book has had so direct an effect on the develop- issuing such publications as the Matthew who married the niece and heir of William ment of the English language with expressions Bible of , the Coverdale Bible of , and Warham (d. ), the last pre-Reformation such as ‘dust to dust’, ‘whom God hath joined the Great Bible of . e new Prayer Book Archbishop of Canterbury. St Leger served together let no man put asunder’, and ‘devices would actually see twelve more printings before omas Cromwell and was involved in the and desires’ firmly embedded in Anglo-Saxon the end of . Towards the end of Edward’s dissolution of the monasteries, receiving the consciousness. Whereas the Lutheran identity reign, the so-called ‘Second Prayer Book’ of priory of East Bilsington, as well as other was grounded in the Augsburg Confession and appeared, reflecting the influence of the property in Kent on July as a reward for the Reformed tradition in the works of the more extreme Calvinist party over the young services rendered. He was also appointed Lord theologian, John Calvin, for more than four King’s court. at book fell into abeyance with Deputy of Ireland six times during his lengthy centuries, the Anglican character was formed the succession of the Roman Catholic Queen career and in was given the unenviable task by the Prayer Book. Mary I, but when her half-sister Elizabeth of imposing the new English prayer book on
“I , ”: F L Lauren Williams Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
, Fisher Library received an of this work speaks to humanity’s ongoing . De Worde was the successor of William anonymous donation of one of the most fascination with angling, both as a recreational Caxton, the first English printer. is treatise comprehensive collections on angling, or activity, and as a kind of philosophical and was, in fact, based on an earlier manuscript Iline fishing, known to exist in the world. e emotional respite from the stresses of daily life. written by Juliana Berners, a prioress in collection consists of over items dating e Compleat Angler, along with many other Hertfordshire with a fondness for hunting, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, historical works on the subject, addresses the fishing, and field sports. with material ranging from books and trade same general issues that concern the angler In addition to the exploration of fish and catalogues to pamphlets, offprints, and other today: where to find various kinds of fish, how fishing culture itself, the study of angling ephemera. best to approach them, and which bait to use. thus provides a unique lens through which to While the act of catching fish originated In essence, fishing has always been a study in consider a number of historical developments: as a means of providing food for survival, by applied natural history. e initial popularity aspects of the natural sciences, the relationship the seventeenth century, angling for sport had of sport fishing in Britain owes much to the between Western culture and the natural world, become a popular pastime. “Idle time, not idly development of the natural sciences, along with printing history, illustration techniques, and spent” is how Izaak Walton characterized the the leisure time afforded the aristocracy and activity-based holidays and travel narratives, art of angling in his work, e Compleat to the burgeoning belief in the importance of among many more. Angler. Walton’s description of “the contempla- natural scenery for man’s spiritual well-being. e angling collection now held at the tive man’s recreation” would go on to become e history of angling literature also runs Fisher Library contains a wealth of material one of the most enduring titles in the English parallel to the development of printing in that will provide scholars, educators, and language; the latest bibliography of the work England. A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle, students with rich and varied new avenues (published in ) lists nearly four hundred the earliest English published work on line for research. While many angling collections editions, facsimiles, and reprints. e longevity fishing, was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in focus on British publications, this collection is
OPENING PAGE: Title page and frontispiece from The Improved British Angler by Robert Huish, F.A.S. Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London. 1838. BELOW LEFT: Illustration from Dean Sage’s book, The Ristigouche and its Salmon Fishing. BELOW RIGHT: Fishing brochure issued by the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway in 1902.
international in scope, encompassing material the scope of this collection. e Historiae from across Europe, Canada, the United States, de gentibus septentrionalibus, for example, and Mexico. It even includes a number of items published in , not only provides information outside the Western tradition, such as the first on Nordic fishing traditions, but also is the edition of a French work published in , La first geographical and ethnological survey of pisciculture et la pêche en Chine. Scandinavia. Canadian history is well represented in this A large portion of this collection was collection, through general works about fish amassed by Georges Albert Petit (–), and fishing in Canada, along with accounts a French angler and bibliophile. Petit also pub- of specific fishing and hunting trips. One lished a number of notable works on angling; Library to keep these kinds of collections particular highlight is Dean Sage’s beautifully his La truite de rivière in this collection is one together, rather than separating donations printed book, e Ristigouche and its Salmon of only ten copies. Petit’s angling experience in order to allow books to be arranged by Fishing (), which features over seventy and vast knowledge of texts about fishing led subject. Studying the collecting decisions of hand-coloured etchings and aquatints. In him to seek out not only the obvious important individuals in the past can teach us a great deal the age before easy and efficient car travel, items for his collection, but also the obscure about literary tastes of the time, the kinds of Canadian railroads lured travelers by offering and ephemeral. e inclusion of material like materials that were considered important, and access to fishing regions. A whimsical example trade catalogues, travel guides, and brochures how these works were used. is collection also of this practice can be found in the brochure truly sets this collection apart. It is impossible notably includes the library catalogues of other issued by the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. to exaggerate the rarity of these kinds of items, prominent collectors, which provide important Various additional works in this collection as they would normally have been discarded bibliographic information and document the demonstrate outstanding aesthetic qualities. after more current materials took their place. extent of a subject by listing known works. In Floating Flies and How to Dress em () is collection also includes a number of addition, they allow book historians to trace features a custom binding by the prominent manuscript items, for example, a copy of Art the provenance of the books through several late nineteenth-century London binder, of Angling by Molineaux (), interleaved hands, and to better understand the history of Zaehnsdorf, and Croquis de pêche () with copious manuscript notes, and which the European and North American book trade. includes beautiful etched plates printed on contains mounted specimens of fishing flies. e Fisher Library is very grateful to the Japanese vellum, to name but a few examples. e fact that Petit’s collection remains intact anonymous donor for this remarkable gift, Numerous other volumes contain remarkable is a marvel in itself. After his death it was which complements and enhances our existing illustrations, from vibrant chromolithographs purchased by a series of private collectors, and natural history collections, and offers exciting to maps, sketches, and photographs. Several was eventually auctioned en bloc by Christie’s new research potential. important early works (pre-) also enhance in . It is a conscious practice at the Fisher
A P B P K: T T S A P L’ P John Shoesmith Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
, shortly before my exhibition was a lacuna, but my hands were tied as we had making the text as easy to read and understand A Death Greatly Exaggerated: Canada’s only one of its books in our collection: King as possible. “Originality for originality’s sake riving Small and Fine Press was fully Orfeo, published in . Because my exhibition I reject as much as I would reject the most Imounted, I received an e-mail from Will Rueter, largely focused on the work of the Canadian ‘beautiful’ set of silverware if they hurt your the veteran bookmaker known for his unique small and fine press over the past decade, with lips and tongue,” he told me. is philosophy and wonderful works—books, pamphlets and only a nod to its history, I was simply unable led him to begin collecting Aliquando Press broadsides—produced by his private press to find a place for it. After some deliberation, in the late s. imprint, Aliquando Press. He had a read a draft however, I decided I needed to find a way to Knowing of his Locks’ Press collection, I of the exhibition catalogue prior to its final include some of the press’s material in the visited his downtown condominium where he printing and wanted to comment on some of my exhibition. As luck would have it, there was a graciously offered up two books from it for curating choices. Mostly, however, he wanted book lover in Toronto, as well as a long-time the exhibition. More exciting, however, was to point out what he felt was a glaring omission Friend of the Fisher, who collected Locks’ Press his promise to eventually donate his entire in my exhibition: there were no materials from comprehensively. collection of Locks’ Press and Aliquando to Locks’ Press, the private press of Kingston- omas Schweitzer was already responsible the Fisher. He fulfilled that promise this past based Margaret and Fred Lock. “In my view,” for one of the great collections at the Fisher: summer when he wrote to me saying that, he wrote, “they’ve produced important literary the Bruce Rogers collection, which he donated having just passed his ninety-second birthday, work in the Canadian private/literary press to the library in and served as the basis he was ready to part with the collection. With field in the past few decades and made a major for an exhibition at the library in . He help from my Fisher colleague Chris Young, contribution to Canadian bookmaking. It’s began amassing the work of Rogers, considered we packed up the collection and had it shipped possible that they don’t fit into your view or to be one of the finest book designers and to the library where it now awaits cataloguing. that Fisher hasn’t collected their work—in typographers of the twentieth century, in It is an impressive collection, and fills in which case I apologize for sticking my nose the early s. As Schweitzer explains it, he many gaps here at the Fisher. While the library where it shouldn’t be.” originally came to book collecting via a love has been collecting Aliquando materials for I wrote back to explain that, indeed, the lack of reading, and has always been drawn to many years, Schweitzer’s collection represents of books from Locks’ Press in the exhibition designers and printers who serve the author by the full run of Rueter’s press—over a hundred
OPENING PAGE: Title page of Locks’ Press Know Thyself by Samuel Johnson. BELOW, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Title page from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Seasons, printed by The Aliquando Press. Hand-written note from Will Rueter to Thomas Schweitzer in a 1964 volume of poetry printed by The Aliquando Press. Margaret Lock’s woodcut illustrations from Poem about nothing by William of Poitiers.
titles — and includes additional variants, e Locks’ Press material is especially say, a medieval manuscript. In total, they have broadsides, ephemera, and unique one-off items important to the Fisher given how little we had. produced around fifty imprints, including created by Rueter exclusively for Schweitzer. e press was established in by Margaret books, pamphlets and broadsides. Sadly, since Will Rueter founded Aliquando in and Fred Lock as a purely part-time activity. when they moved to England, the Locks while he was still an art school student as a Originally based in Brisbane, Australia, the have stopped making books. means of learning first-hand the fundamentals couple moved to Kingston in when they Schweitzer began to collect the Locks’ of typographic design, typesetting, printing, had already produced seven books. eir books material in , saying he was struck by the and binding. He turned that interest into a full- are unique, even for fine press publishing, as “austere beauty” of Margaret’s woodcuts and her time career as a graphic designer specializing they produce what Margaret herself has called presswork, as well as the idiosyncratic nature in book design, including many years with the “scholarly publishing combined with original of their texts. “at goes for Will’s work as University of Toronto Press. (e Schweitzer illustration.” She designs the books, does well,” he says. When he began collecting the gift includes many of these commercial works the typesetting and binding, and creates the works of Bruce Rogers back in the s, he as well.) It is his work with Aliquando, however, illustrations, while Fred, who was a professor in insists that he was planning on restraining that has established Rueter as one of the finest the English department at Queen’s University, himself and sticking solely to Rogers’ work. bookmakers in the country. In March , the is responsible for the editorial content. eir He broke that vow in the late s when he Alcuin Society awarded him the Robert R. Reid books focus on pre-twentieth-century works, began to collect Aliquando — he was hooked Award and Medal for lifetime achievement to particularly English medieval and eighteenth- on Rueter’s work after seeing the title frames the book arts. century literature. of Aliquando’s book e Seasons, published e texts chosen by Rueter for publication e selection of texts is eclectic, including in . “en, much later, in , I broke reflect a wide range of literature. He balances the works of lesser-known authors such as it again with Locks’ Press Know yself by both reprints of unusual texts along with Justus Lipsius and Sannazaro, and the transla- Samuel Johnson,” he says of the first book he previously unpublished works, often of tions include seven from Middle English and purchased from the Locks. Canadian poetry. He controls all aspects of six from Latin. It is Margaret’s design and As the recipient of omas Schweitzer’s book production and will freely experiment illustrations, primarily woodcut, that give collections of Bruce Rogers, Aliquando Press, with format. Much of his current work their books such a distinct visual look. While and Locks’ Press, the Fisher is thankful that contains his own linocut and wood-engraved she will research the period of the text she is he did not keep his original vow about solely illustrations. In short, he moves to his own illustrating, including the architecture, dress collecting Rogers — but grateful he kept his personal taste and aesthetic, and the Fisher and furniture, her woodcuts tend to have a promise to donate them to us. is fortunate to have this rich resource in full. modern feel rather than replicate the look of,
T R C C L F H Chris J. Young Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
of , a collection of William Makepeace ackeray, Alfred Lord death in that a facsimile of a note from approximately three hundred books Tennyson, John Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, Buxton Forman to Wise officially implicated and pamphlets was donated to the Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the latter’s involvement in the forgeries previ- AFisher Library by Ronald Cohen. Unlike William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson, and ously identified by Carter and Pollard. e work most collections that follow some sort of numerous other Victorian writers around the of Carter and Pollard not only revealed Wise thematic topic, such as history or medicine, turn of the twentieth century. as a forger, but also sent shockwaves through this collection was comprised of literary It was not until that Wise was exposed the literary world with scholars scrambling to forgeries, primarily by the notorious omas as a forger by John Carter and Graham Pollard revise their bibliographies of notable Victorian J. Wise, along with secondary literature on in their study An Enquiry into the Nature of writers. eir research and methods inspired his professional and illicit activities. Literary Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. Carter later bibliographers to uncover other forgeries forgeries are writings which have either been and Pollard scientifically analyzed the paper, by Wise, particularly William B. Todd who deliberately misattributed to an historical or which could be roughly dated according to published a comprehensive bibliography of imagined author, or writings that have been whether it contained esparto grass, wood pulp, the Wiseian forgeries in , titled omas J. deceptively presented as true when they are or traditional rag. ey also investigated the Wise: Centenary Studies. fabricated. A prolific book collector himself, typography of the pamphlets—Long Primer Within the collection housed at the Fisher Wise was perceptively aware that his contem- No. —which they traced to Richard Clay & are approximately thirty Wiseian forgeries, porary writers tended to distribute their literary Sons, who did not have their type cut until and extensive secondary literature on Wise, work in small, ephemeral pamphlets. Along after . e mass of evidence for some such as works by Wise (not forgeries), works with his fellow counterfeiter, Harry Buxton fifty forged pamphlets led straight to Wise’s about Wise and literary forgeries, facsimiles Forman, they invented pre-first editions of over collection, the Ashley Library, now housed at of his correspondence, periodical and journal one hundred works attributed to John Ruskin, the British Library. It was not until after Wise’s articles on Wise and literary forgeries, and
OPENING PAGE: John Carter’s bookplate in one of the books in the collection. BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Scribner Bookstore envelope with Carter’s notes with the forged copy of Thackeray’s A Leaf out of a Sketch-Book. Dust jacket of John Carter and Graham Pollard’s An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. Title page of forged copy of Tennyson’s The Last Tournament.
bibliographies of Wise’s works, including his that the typographical variances are from the forger of invented works, Landon argued that forgeries and the Ashley Library. Several of the craftsmanship of a different woodblock-maker, ‘the production and sale of forgeries allowed forgeries in the collection were owned by Carter and are therefore not offprints of e Victoria them [Wise and Buxton Forman] to build their himself, containing his bookplate, and were Regia edition. superb collections of books and manuscripts likely used in his investigation of nineteenth- In , former Director of the Fisher in ways that would not otherwise have been century pamphlets that led to Wise’s exposure Library, Richard Landon, curated an exhibi- possible. And yet, there lurks the suspicion that as a forger. Carter’s copy of ackeray’s A Leaf tion on forgeries, titled Literary Forgeries and envy and contempt might be joined to greed out of a Sketch-Book is particularly fascinating Mystifications. In the accompanying catalogue, as primary motives.’ As former colleagues of as it contains a Scribner Bookstore envelope Landon wrote that ‘literary forgery is as old Richard, we are sure he would have thoroughly with an inscription by Carter that writes ‘the as recorded literature itself’. e exhibition enjoyed this collection, leafing through the evidence of the vignette and the illustrations showcased forgeries, such as an account of forgeries to trace the bibliographical discrepan- [process reproductions from the woodblocks William Shakespeare’s manuscript papers by cies himself. Hopefully someday soon another of e Victoria Regia] is amply confirmed William Henry Ireland, Fragments of Ancient curious scholar of literary forgeries will walk by the analysis of the paper; and there can Poetry by James MacPherson claiming to into the Fisher and explore this collection, no longer be any doubt that the pamphlet is contain genuine fragments of ancient Scottish potentially uncovering new evidence of Wise’s a forgery.’ In Carter and Pollard’s Enquiry poetry, and Ruskin’s Samuel Prout forged by forgeries and contribute to the scholarship of they analyze the copied vignette, stressing Wise himself. On the motivations of Wise as a Carter, Pollard, Todd, and Landon before them.
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Peter Alberti Margaret Hardman Daniel Norman Margaret Atwood Maureen Scott Harris Stephen Nugent Norman R. Ball and George F. Hawken Eric Ormsby Philippa Campsie Lawrence A. Hill Gerald Owen Sylvia Balogh Ian Hose Charles S. Pachter Erin P. Blair Marguerite E. Hunt Alexander C. Pathy Robert C. Brandeis William Johnston Derek Paul Anne Brener Peter Kaellgren Ronald Peters Russell M. Brown William and Hiroko Keith Larry Pfaff John Cairns Robert Kerschbaumer Diane Plant Sheila D. Campbell Simon Kiddell Henry Rodrigues P. J. Carefoote Marie Korey Patricia Rogal J. Edward Chamberlin Karol Krysik F. Michah Rynor J. Doreen Charnock Simon Langlois Robyn Sarah Ronald Cohen Helen Lansdowne Jeannie Simmons Joan Coldwell John Laughlin John G. Slater Adam Crabtree Peter J. Lewis Arthur Smith Frances Dafoe Katharine A. M. Lochnan David Solway Jon and Lyne Dellandrea Martin Lockshin Rosalia Souster Janet Dewan Deirdre M. Macdonald Craig Stephenson Andrew Dubois Jessie Mackenzie Ricardo Sternberg Adele Ernstrom Barbara MacMillan Allan J. Stratton Sharyn A. Salsberg Ezrin Terry Maley Rosemary Sullivan David Fernández Elizabeth M. Maloney Anne ackray George Fetherling Alberto Manguel Vincent Tovell Jan Figurski Max Maréchaux Rhea Tregebov C. J. Fox Alan C. Mason Georgiana Uhlyarik Michael Gervers Simon McInnes F. Michael and John Gittens Linda E. McKnight Virginia Walsh Lorna Goodison John T. McLeod Alan S. Weber Malcolm Graham e Estate of Keith Bruce M. Westwood Barry Gunden A. McLeod Bruce Whiteman e Estate of Phyllis John and Myrna Metcalf Mary F. Williamson Grosskurth Michael and Jane Millgate Linda Wilson Margaret I. Hall Karen Mulhallen Mary P. Winsor David G. Hallman Peter Munk Marian Yaroski
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