ISSUE No. 23, June 1999 ISSN 0840-5565

G^^) "The Paperless Society!"

It never ceases to amaze me that we refer placed on the amount of baggage they to see a more personal side of his life. to ourselves as "the paperless society". were allowed to transport, their posses- This gift includes several dozen letters to Despite the computer, paperwork still sions had to be limited to what they felt his wife before their marriage, their abounds and our society still believes they would need to start their new lives. wedding album, and family pictures. firmly in paper - at least judging by the Having to fend for themselves in all Our exhibitions often remind people of donations made last year by numerous matters, including religion, the books treasures they have at home that might Friends of the Fisher Library. We had reflect their need to maintain their faith. enhance our collections. Professor Willard another exceptional year of growth for the The donation includes a Finnish version of Oxtoby's Ext>eriencing India reminded holdings of the Fisher Library and Mrs.-~ett~~etcalfe of a book she the following are only a few of the thought might interest us. It was highlights as viewed through the Charles R. Forrest's A Picturesque eyes of one staff member. Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and It is not always the large Jumna printed in London in 1824. donations that make me stop in my This handsome work contains tracks. More often than not, it is the magnificent illustrations of nine- small treasures that people give us teenth-century India and is indeed for safekeeping that I find the most a valuable addition to our holdings. interesting. This past year Gertrude Professor R.J. Revell also found Allan gave us an edition of the inspiration in this exhibition, works of Robert Bums that had donating, among many other been in her family since being works, several volumes on travel in published in Glasgow in 1867. On the Middle East, including Burton's a recent trip to Toronto, Mrs. Personal Narrative of a PiIgrimage Margaret Ward brought in an to El Medinab and Mekkab edition of Denis le Cartusien's (London, 1857) and Denon's Quatuor Hominis Novissima Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt (Douai, 1627) which had been in Above: "AncientTomb" from Charles R. Forrest's A Picturesque (London, 1803). Hearing about the her family for many years but no Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna (London, 1824). exhibition, long-time Friend, Mary one knew its significance. A staff Williamson, wanted to know if a member was able to throw some scrapbook of Indian scenes would light on the contents of this religious tract, the New Testament, a Sunday School be acceptable. No ordinary scrapbook, the one of over two hundred written by this songbook, sermons, two works by Martin work turned out to be filled with original Belgian theologian. Now, thanks to the Luther and various other treatises on sketches and watercolours of scenes in generosity of Mrs. Ward and her family, Christianity. The books have been heavily India and England, pressed plants and this book has joined other early imprints used over the past century and we are seaweeds, greeting cards and printed held here. honoured that Professor Lindstrom felt that ephemera. Compiled by Grace Cripps Another fascinating example was the the Fisher Library should become their during the years 1875 to 1880, it was a collection of books brought in by Profes- final resting place. record of the time her father, John Mat- sor Varpu Lindstrom. She had been doing A touching donation came from the thew Cripps, spent as Deputy District research in a Finnish community in son-in-law of James Baillie, noted omi- Commissioner in Rawal Pindi. As well as Saskatchewan, and found a cache of thologist and long-time staff member at the watercolours, the book also contains a nineteenth-century Finnish imprints. the Royal Ontario Museum. Baillie's books silk programme for an evening conceit Questioning the elders, she discovered and papers arrived many years ago and and reading put on by the Fourth Hussars these books had been brought over by the became a major resource for birders all on Easter Thursday, April 20th, 1876, a founding families when they emigrated to over North America. Now, thanks to the printed leaflet entitled "First Lesson Book, the area in 1891. Since restrictions were generosity of Robert Wilson, we are able Hindustanti", and a manuscript leaf headed "The humble petition of Indraj, gift means that we have now increased backing would have tom the map from its bearer of Coll. J.M. Cripps", which deals several collections in strength and depth at upper wooden dowel; this has not been with household matters. This wonderfully a time when many of these works have the fate of these two fine pre-Confedera- evocative item will now join the Fisher become very scarce in the market and tion artifacts. A much smaller item came Library's collection of bound manuscripts. very dear. Robert Brandeis, whose name from the collection of Professor Peter A work with an interesting background has been featured in these reports for Brock. The charming map of Gamey ot came to us from Elizabeth Bacque who several years, also contributed to our [sic] Sarina is undated, but we were able presented us with Claudio Tolomeo's incunabula holdings. His donation of to establish that it was actually detached Geografla (Venice, 1598). Not only is this Guido delle Colonne's Historia from William Camden's Britannia (Lon- a very nice addition to our early imprints, Destructionis Tmiae (1486) presents the don, 1695) and thus is an interesting but it has the added feature of having popular story of the fall of Troy as serious example of seventeenth-century British been presented to her uncle, Verschoyle history. Taken without acknowledgement map-making. The modem era is repre- Blake, by Gilbert Bagnani. These two from a long poem by the twelfth-century sented by Lloyd Brown-John's donation. scholars lived near each other in the tmuv&e, BenoTt de Saint More entitled On a lecture trip in Germany, he found a countryside north of Port Hope and shared Roman de Tmie, this work was printed in collection of World War I and II German common interests. Blake designed the Strassburg by a printer now identified as army field maps. The maps are very renovations to Vogrie, the Bagnani's Georg Husner. detailed and in excellent condition, home, including the large living room I rarely write about our small but although some were used in the field, as which contained their book and art growing map collection, but this has been evidenced by manuscript annotations and collections. As the Fisher Library, several a banner year. We all must remember the overprints of troop dispositions. years ago, was the grateful recipient of oversized maps that hung in classrooms, On the scientific side, our Hannah many of Professor Bagnani's books, we and the use and abuse they received. Last Collection of books on the history of are especially pleased to be able to add February, the heirs of Margaret Scrivener medicine was considerably enhanced in this volume to our holdings. approached the Library with an offer to 1998 by several donations, highlighted by An outstanding collection of some three donate two such maps. They turned out to Mr. and Mrs. Murray Cathcart's gift of The hundred and seventy early printed books be very special examples. The unusually Workes of Ambroise Par6 (London, 1634), came to us this past year from Professor fine condition of Tremaine's Map of Upper and by John Parkinson's Theatrum Ralph Stanton. We are now able to add Canada (Toronto, 1862) and Map of the Botanicum (London, 1640), which came four more incunabula to our growing County of Wellington, Canada West from the collection of Professor Stephen collection of books from the cradle of (Toronto, 1861) drawn by Guy Leslie and Tobe. Nineteenth and twentieth-century printing, including a rubricated 1480 Charles J. Wheelock, indicates that they engineering works selected by Dr. Norman edition of Antoninus Elorentinus, which is were not hung for any length of time. It Ball enriched our holdings in that field, not recorded in any other Canadian was usual that, after a period of time, the while Howard Chapman added to our institution. The range and variety of the sheer weight of the paper and canvas collection of architectural works. One of the Fisher Library's fastest tion of American first editions, as did Cyril MacDonald, and thanks to Mrs. Mitchell, growing collections has been in the field Greenland with a collection of works by we were the recipients of many more of printing history. Through the generosity and about Walt Whitman. items to be added to that collection. of Ron Peters, we were able to add several The works of Anglo-American poet, Harold Kurschenska, a designer at the invaluable works: the completely engraved Thom GUM, have long interested Profes- University of Toronto Press for many Universal Penman by George Bickham, sor Douglas Chambers, who this year years, gave us a variety of finely printed Dard Hunter's Old Papermaking (one of donated a major collection of works by books, works on Canadian private presses, only two hundred copies), and Hunter's and about him. What makes this collection limited editions of Canadian literature and rarest work: Papermaking in Zndo-China. very valuable is that Professor Chambers printing artifacts. His generosity will not We are now the only library in Canada to had done extensive research on the only benefit the Canadiana collections, but have P.-F. Dupont's Essais Pratiques periodical appearances of Gum's poems also the L.B. Duff Collection on printing dTmprtmerie, of which only one hundred and included these items in his gift. history and several manuscript collections, were printed and only three copies are Numerous donations were made to the including the Cooper & Beatty Archives recorded in North America. We now have English and Anglo-Irish collections of and the Robert Finch Papers. all three issues of Matthias Koops's 1801 literature, including works by John This last collection provides me with a book on paper and papermaking, having Masefield given by Brian Kennedy. Other perfect segue into a description of the been given this year the rarest "waste gifts were received from Richard Landon, 19.98 manuscript donations. Professor paper" issue, and also the rare coloured Dr. Robert Brandeis, Professor C.B. Robert Finch loved bitter orange marma- version of J. Midolle's Album de Moyen Chandler, Graham Cotter, Shiriey Ferrier, lade and used to receive pots of it as a Age and a large uncut copy of Saintomer Professor Peter Heyworth, Marine present from Mrs. Mary Graham. As a l'aine's Graphomktrie (Paris, 1799). Works McMullan and Norman Spears. Sandra thank you, Professor Finch wrote her a on calligraphy donated by Sandra Mark Mark gave a collection of works by and poem each year extolling the virtues of included a very nice copy of Hilary about Louis MacNeice. MacNeice, who her gift. Professor and Mrs. Graham Jenkinson's The Later Court Hands in was a friend of Auden and Spender, gathered their collection of twenty-one England (Cambridge, 1927) and a privately provides the perfect bridge between the years of poems, had them calligraphed by printed fast edition of Stanley Morison's Endicott Collection of English Literature C. Bailey and Walter Terry, and bound The CalligraphicModels of Ludovico a'egli publishedbetween1870and 1930anda into a volume by Ernrys Evans. This past Arrighi (Paris, 1926). soon-to-be established collection of year, Mary's Marmalade, a wonderful A gift from the estate of J.B. Salsberg English authors writing after that date. memento, joined the more serious poems augmented both the Robert Kemy and As usual, we have received many already held in the Finch papers. Spanish Civil War Collections. Professor J. donations of Canadiana this year. John Professor Elspeth Cameron, who began Edward Chamberlin added to his previous Mappin continues to surprise us with the to donate her personal archives last year, gift of works by Caribbean authors and variety of Canadian pamphlets not yet held contributed a major part of her personal Sheldon Godfrey donated a very fine copy by this institution. Tex and Betty Mitchell, papers and research notes. This year, she of John Lunan's Hortus Jamaicensis, who operated Direct Mail Advertising Ltd., included items relating to her controversial printed in Jamaica in 1814. Professor on Davenport Road for many years, biography of living Layton and additional Michael Millgate made a generous dona- printed many items for Thoreau materials from her work on Hugh MacLennan and Earle Bimey, as well as drafts of her memoir, No Previous Exf)en'- ence. Her background notes, correspond- ence and research materials for her nearly one hundred and fifty articles, lectures and presentations on modem Canadian literature and authors, were also included. Our thanks also go out to the ever- generous Margaret Atwood and to David Domell, Douglas Fetherling, Mavor Moore, Sheila Mavor Moore, Karen Mulhallen, Frank Peers, David Solway and Paul Wilson, who added to our Canadian literature manuscript holdings. Eldon Garnett gave us his archive of Impulse magazine, 1975-1990. Charles Pachter donated his archives, which included not only family records, but also correspon- dence with Margaret Atwood concerning their collaboration on the design and printing of five of her works, including the very limited edition of the Journals of

Left: Illustration of watermarksfrom Dard Hunter's Old Papermaking, page 71 (1923). Susanna Moodie. Professor Josef There were several new si@cant issued by his correspondents. This Skvoreckyxetrieved from Czechoslovakia a manuscript collections acquired during collection is a unique repository of major copybook of his early poems 1998. Suniti Namjoshi spent seventeen information on pre-Holocaust European written between the ages of thirteen and years teaching at this University, leaving in Jewish artists, many of whom perished twenty-eight. Professor Phyllis Grosskurth 1989 to pursue a career as a full time during the war, and should prove to be an turned over research notes and drafts for writer. She is now considered one of the invaluable resource for historians of her biography of Lord Byron. Donald most significant feminist writers of her twentieth-century art. Jones added fifty more files on persons generation. Her poetry and articles have To the over one hundred donors of and places important in Toronto's history, been widely published and her ten books gifts large and small, who added so much and this collection is now being exten- have given her an international reputation. to the collections of the Fisher Library in sively used by researchers eager to learn Although based in England, we are 1998, our heartfelt thanks. more about the notable figures in this pleased that she felt her years here were University's history. Canadian artist and crucial to her development as a writer and Luba JFrastacky author, Joe Rosenblatt, who first donated that she selected us as the repository for Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library his papers in the early 1970s, has now her papers. Mrs. Robert Lawrence donated presented us with thirty-six drawings. her late husband's research notes on Florence Drake continued her generos- English actors and theatrical companies ity by donating Fifty-two bound manu- touring Canada before World War 11. Mr. Three Exhibition scripts from the collection assembled by Lawrence's research will be of great her late husband, Professor Stillman benefit to students of Canadian theatrical Catalogues Drake. Written variously in Latin, Italian, history. Francis Markstein wrote poems in French and German, they all relate to the English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian Receive Awards history of science and philosophy and and Spanish and produced translations Each year, the Bare Books and Manu- range in date from the fifteenth to the from French, German, Hungarian, Italian scripts Section of the American Libraries nineteenth century. These unique items and Spanish. His poems and essays on Association sponsors a competition to will further enhance the most extensive literary topics are now in the Fisher choose the best exhibition catalogues and most important collections in the Library, thanks to the generosity of his produced by North American libraries. history of science in Canada, and we are widow, Aurelia. The gift of Mrs. Miriam The Thomas Fisher Bare Book Library indeed grateful to Mrs. Drake. The very Schneid Ofseyer consisted of the collection is pleased to announce that all three generous donors, Albert and Nancy of her late husband, Otto Schneid. Profes- catalogues that were submitted for the Friedberg, added to their 1997 gift by a sor Schneid was an art historian, writer 1999 competition have won awards. further one hundred tides. This major and artist, and his archive includes Radicals and Revolutionaries, by Sean collection of Hebrew manuscripts and manuscripts of his published and unpub- Purdy, received a first place award. early printed books, which date from the lished works, correspondence with artists Eapen'encing India, by Willard G. Oxtoby, eleventh to the nineteenth century, is and scholars, most of whom were active in and Toronto In Print, by Sandra Alston enabling the Fisher Library to become a Europe before 1939, as well as artists' and Patricia Fleming, both won Honour- significant repository of Hebrew materials. catalogues, and books and pamphlets able Mention awards.

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Exhibitions 1999 - 2000 Planned Events 1999 - 2000 Wednesday 9 February Exhibition hours: 9 - 5 Monday to Friday All lectures begin at 8:00 p.m. 'Vivid Impressions: The Pleasures of All exhibition openings begin at 5:00 p.m. Collecting Prints" Dr. Katharine Lochnan, Curator of 13 May - 3 Sept. Tuesday 28 September Prints and Drawings, Art Gallery of In Honour of Our Friends: A Celebra- The John Seltzer and Mark Seltzer Ontario tion of Gifts to the Thomas Fisher Rare Memorial Lecture Book Library, 1995 - 1998. "Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach: Tall Tales March and True of Bookselling in the Early The Gryphon Lecture on the 20 Sept. 1999- 28 Jan. 2000 Twentieth Century" History of the Book The Lewis Carroll Collection Leslie Morris, Curator of Manuscripts, Professor Brian Stock, Department of Exhibition opening Tuesday 21 Houghton Library, Harvard University History, University of Toronto, will September speak on books and healing. Wednesday 10 November 22 Feb. - 2 June "Modem Marginalia" Books for the Millennium Professor Heather Jackson, Department Exhibition opening Thursday 24 of English, University of Toronto February Donors to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Libra y in 1998 Elvi Aer Catherine Delaney Louise Herzberg Faculty of Medicine, Professor Ann Robson Gertrude E. Allan Kildare Dobbs Professor Peter Heyworth University of Toronto Joseph Rosenblatt Alliance Communications David Donnell Marcella Hinz Betty Metcaife Rabbi Reuven Rubelow Professor Carl Amrhein Florence Drake Alan J. Home Professors Michael and Michah Rynor Arts and letters Club, Estate of William A. Jane Millgate Toronto Dunbar John M. Kelly Library, Mrs. M.E. Mitchell Estate of J.B. Salsberg Associated Medical Duncan Lithography St. Michael's College, Lorraine Monk Professor Marie Sander- Services Company, Toronto University of Toronto J. Mavor Moore son ~ar~aretAtwood Sheila Mavor Moore Estate of Margaret Margaret Atwood Society David J. Fader Dr. William ~ohnston Karen Mulhallen Scrivener Professor Graham Kyle Jolliffe Professor Ronald Elizabeth Bacque Falconer Donald Jones Suniti Namjoshi Shepherd Professor M.H.I. Baird Shirley E. Ferrier Department of Near and Mary Sinclair Norman Ball Douglas Fetheding Leon Katz Middle Eastern Civi- Professor Josef Skvorecky Patricia M.J. Bolland Estate of Sidney Fisher Ben Kayfetz lizations, University of David Solway Dr. Robert Brandeis Sidney H. Fisher Brian Kennedy Toronto Paul Sparkes Professor Peter Brock Professor Betty Flint George Kiddell Hilary Nicholls John Sparling Uoyd Brown-John Albert and Nancy Harold Kurschenska David Nicholls Memorial Norman Spears Kathleen Bruce-Robertson Friedberg Fund Professor Ralph Stanton Professor Gary Burfield Richard Landon Christina Duff Stewart Eldon Garnet David Lank Miriam Ofseyer Claude Stewart Professor Elspeth Stephen Gilbert Robert Lantos Estate of Karel Oprchal Cameron Sheldon J. Godfrey Mrs. R.G. Lawrence Professor Stephen Tobe John Campsie The family of Emilio and Professor Varpu Charles Pachter Toronto Field Naturalists Professor James Carley Emma Goggio Ijndstrom Estate of Margery Pearson Mr. and Mrs. Murray Professor and Mrs. Victor Frank Peers Margaret Ward Cathcart Graham Julia McLaughlin Raymond Peringer Gordon Whatley Professor J. Edward Amy Grant Maxine McMullan Ronald Peters Mary Williamson Chamberlin Freda and Patrick Hart Beverly McNaught Carol Wilson Professor Douglas Green Alan Manington Professor E.J. Revel1 Paul Wilson Chambers Cyril Greenland John Mappin E. Brock Rideout Robert Wilson Professor C.B. Chandler Professor Phyllis Dr. L. Marchow Professor Emmet Robbins Joan Winearls Howard Chapman Grosskurth Sandra L. Mark Robertson Davies Library, Ritchie Clark Aurelia Ora Markstein Massey College, Borys Zayachivsky Dr. Margaret Oatway Professor David Hayne David Mazierski University of Toronto Thorpe Clipstein G.M. Henderson Graham Cotter

A Last Note of Thanks Friends of the Thomas Fisher Richard Moll, our student assistant since 1992, was granted his doctorate in January, Rare Book Libra y Build the Collection and he and his wife have now left to During 1998, both individual friends and Freda and Patrick Hart Green gener- pursue their scholarly careers in the United the Friends of the Fisher Library assisted ously funded the purchase of several tides States. He has been of inestimable assist- the Library in acquiring many valuable for the Jewish Studies collection, among ance in organizing and listing gifts of tides. Some of the most noteworthy are as them being: Nefufsot Yehudah, a collection printed materials and manuscripts. We follows: of sermons and eulogies (Venice, 1589) by wish Margaret and Richard much success. Canadaink, 1930-1936, an "occasional Judah Moscato, Mizmor le-Todah, a publication of the Canada Printing Ink commentary on Psalms 119-134 (Venice, Edna Hajnal Company" was purchased with assistance 1576) by Samuel Aripul, and Akedat Luba Frastacky from the Friends. Yifshak, homilies on the Pentateuch by the The rare first edition in English of Louis great fifteenth-century Spanish philosopher Daguerre's seminal manual of how to and preacher, Isaac Arama (Venice, 1573). perform the first practical process of The first edition of Gerard Manley photography was purchased with funding Hopkins's Poems (London, 1918) with from The David Nicholls Memorial Fund. extensive annotations by the Canadian The literary manuscripts of Lorna poet Frank Prewett, and a collection of Goodison, the distinguished Jamaican twenty-nine Northamptonshire and writer, were acquired with the assistance Leicestershire book auction catalogues of George Kiddell, an anonymous donor, dating from 1745 to 1853 were also funded Catherine Delaney, and Hilary Nicholls. by the Friends. The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. By a Lady. London: Printed for the Author; and sold at Mrs. Ash burn 's . . . , 1 74 7.

When Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) pub- that Half a Pound is full lished her Art of Cookery by subscription enough, or more than in 1747, little did she realize that she had need be used: But then it produced the most famous cookbook of would not be French." the eighteenth century. Moreover, she She describes the certainly did not know that a household roasting, baking and phrase, "first catch your hare", would be boiling of meat in the her major contribution to future compila- conventional, and to tions of famous sayings. She would be modem eyes, complex especially amazed because she did not manner of the time. Her write the phrase at all. On page six of the advice regarding first edition, for the recipe "To Roast a vegetables, however, is Hare" she wrote "Take your Hare when it much more in keeping is cas'd and make a pudding" (the word "with our a1 dente "cas'd" is an obsolete usage of "skinned). tastes: "Directions Biographical details of Mrs. Glasse's life concerning Garden are scarce despite the facts that there were Things. Most people many editions of The Art of Cookery spoil Garden Things published in the eighteenth and nine- by over boiling them: teenth centuries, and that another book All things that are This recipe for "Mrs. Wrights Rich Cordill Walter" is written by her, The Compleat Confectioner, green should have a betweenpages 156and 157 in The Art of Cookery, 1747. was also a best-seller. Even her authorship little Crispness, for if was questioned, based on a remark in they are over boil'd they neither have any owner has also enclosed a copy of an Boswell's Life of Johnson, which suggested Sweetness or Beauty." Unfortunately, article about The Art of Cookery, written by that the real author was Dr. John Hill. She many of Mrs. Glasse's descendants seem to the Reverend Richard Hooper of Upton was apparently a "habit-maker to Her have ignored or forgotten this advice. Rectory, Didcot, and published in The Royal Highness the Princess of Wales", The copy of The Art of Cookery recently Globe newspaper on February 12th, 1876. according to an advertisement found in acquired by the Fisher Library is unique. A possible candidate is Henry Walton the fourth edition of The Art of Cookery. In Later editions appeared in an octavo Lawrence, whose library was sold on the subscription list of some two hundred format, but this one is a handsome folio. It December 15th, 1892, but the identifica- names in this first edition there appear has been interleaved with blank sheets of tion must remain tentative. "Mrs. Glasse, Cary-Street" and "Mr. Glasse, paper to which are aff-med dozens of Mrs. Glasse ends her book with two Attorney at Law", but how or if they are recipes in manuscript, all of them older recipes for curing the bite of a mad dog. related to her is not known. The relatively than the book and some of which appear One recipe is by Dr. Mead and involves small number of copies printed and the to be from the late seventeenth century. dosages of liverwort and black pepper, fact that the book was used in the kitchen They complement and supplement Mrs. combined with copious bleeding. has resulted in its rarity today. Glasse's recipes and some are quite This volume is a welcome addition to The Art of Cookery was deservedly specific, like "Mrs. Wrights Rich Cordill our History of Science Collection, and will popular, for Mrs. Glasse did indeed Watter". be of scholarly service to a wide variety of describe her dishes in a "plain and easy" The provenance of this volume is researchers in several different fields. manner. She was careful to explain that puzzling and tentative. It was owned in her cooking was English, not French: "I the nineteenth century by someone with Richard London have heard of a Cook that used six Pounds the initials "HWL",who has added to a fly- Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of Butter to fry twelve Eggs; when every leaf a note about the book's scarcity and body knows, that understands Cooking, the manuscript additions. The unidentified An exhibition to delight the eye!

'In Honour of Our Friends" is an exhibi- 1923, with illustrations by Rafaello Busoni tion celebrating four years of generous (1900-1962). Other manuscripts shown gifts to the Thomas Fisher 'Base Book include a complete Hebrew Bible copied Library. It is never easy to decide what to in 1307, SeferMitsvot Gadol by Moses ben exhibit from the wealth of gifts donated by Jacob, of Coucy, written in Italy in the the Friends of the Fisher Library each' year. fourteenth century, and a fifteenth-century We have organized this exhibition around copy of the Zohar (Book of splendour), a number of themes and subject areas, the most important work of Jewish reflecting some outstanding new collec- mysticism. The Zohar has a fascinating tions which have been recently estab- story attached to it which will be elabo- lished, as well as highlighting gifts which rated upon in a future issue of Halcyon. build on the Library's already established The Fisher Library owns some one strengths in various disciplines. Our hundred and thirty incunabula, or books chosen themes are: Hebraica (a new area from the "cradle" of printing and dating of strength for this Library); Early Printed from before 1501. The examples shown in Books; Arts of the Book; the History of the second exhibition case fall naturally Science and Medicine; Exploration and into the Library's existing collections. Two Travel; English and American Literature are commentaries on Peter Lombard's (showing examples from several new Sententh, for which the Library has a author collections); and Canadians. twelfth-century manuscript, a number of The 'Hebraica' case shows a very rich early editions and many other comrnentar- spectrum of manuscripts and printed ies. The authors are Thomas de Argentina books ranging in date from possibly the and Franciscus de Mayronis. Both were ninth century to the early twentieth. The Scholastics, as was Antonius Andreae, earliest item is a fragment of the Mishnah whose commentary on Aristotle's construction in Venice, later to be known written sometime from the ninth to the Metaphysics is an addition to the Aristotle as La Fenice. The certificate is dated eleventh century. The manuscript has a Collection. To the third and fourth vol- Wednesday, 23 February, 1790, and is a tantalizing colophon which time has eaten umes of an edition of the Vulgate printed printed document completed in manu- away and so the date cannot be accurately in Strassburg in 1492 already in the script, with an accompanying plan deciphered. It could be one of the oldest Library, a kind Friend has added volume showing the location of the box, extant Hebrew texts. The most recent item two. Another Friend presented the Library The 'Arts of the Book' case illustrates all in this case is Shir ha-Shirim (Song of with volumes three and four of the aspects of that subject field. Shown are: Solomon), printed in Berlin in 1922 or Summa Theologica by Saint Antoninus, two sixteenth-century bindings on classical Archbishop of Florence, printed in texts; a volume containing twenty-nine of Nuremburg in 1486-1487. The last item in the earliest known book auction cata- this case is Guido delle Colome's Historia logues from Northamptonshire and Destructionis Troiae (1486, which Leicestershire, 1745-1853, some with presents, as factual history, the story of the prices added in manuscript; and Pierre- fall of Troy. Simon Fournier's two most important The Italian holdings of the Fisher works on typography and printing, issued . Library were already outstanding, and now in the 1760s. The William Morris Collec- are being further enriched by the generos- tion, recently renamed in memory of ity of various Friends. The third case Margery Pearson, the Bruce Rogers highlights the literary and scientific areas Collection and the A.J. Home Collection of with, among others, editions of Petrarch British Book Illustration, are all repre- (1563) and Dante (17571, and an account sented by one work respectively: George of scientific experiments made by the ten Cavendish's Life of Thomas Wolsey, printed members of the Academia del Cimento in at the Kelmscott Press in 1893; Stanley Florence, printed in 1691. Traftato del Morison's Fra Luca de Pacwli (1933) Giuoco &/la Palla (15551, by Antonio designed by Bruce Rogers; and Edward Scaino, is the earliest book to describe and Bawden's delightful illustrations for Robert illustrate the game of tennis. A most Herring's Adam and Evelyn at Kew (1930). interesting item is the certificate of sale for The history of science and medicine a theatre box in a new theatre under has always been a strength in the Fisher

Below left: George Cavendish's Life of Thomas rolsey, 1893. Above right: Frontispiece to Pierre-Simon Four er's Manual Typographique, v. 1, 1764. Library and the highlight of this case is an Pride and Prejudice unsigned letter which is probably in (1813 and 1817) are Galilee's own hand. It was written in 1633 also shown. Two while he was awaiting trial on a charge of issues of the first heresy. As the writer mentions Copernican edition of Lewis theory there would have been good Carroll's Alice in reason for him not to sign his letter. A Wonderland (1865- work by Ambroise Pare (1634) is open to 1866) provide a show two methods of treating a dislocated foretaste of a forth- shoulder. Other scientific works displayed coming exhibition. are John Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum Other notable authors (1640) and Thomas Willis's De An- featured are Henry Brutorurn (1672). Louis Daguerre's History James, Ernest and Practice of Photogenic Drawing on the Hemingway and True Principles of the Daguerreotype (1839) Lawrence Durrell. is the first translation into English of his Canadiana is well manual on the practical process of represented in this 'Ik.:' photography. Letters from Elizabeth exhibition, examples Hughes to her parents (19221, and F.G. being shown in the Above: Photograph of Earle Birney as a youth, and a draftpage Banting to Ted Ryder (1938) make this eighth case and in the for his autobiography. case a very diverse one. Both Elizabeth Maclean-Hunter Hughes and Ted Ryder were among the Reading Room. Highlights are a small An unexpected aspect of Lawrence first to receive life-saving insulin. stitched pamphlet printed by Montreal's Durrell is.shown by two works of art, Exploration and travel is exemplified by first printer, Fleury Mesplet, in 1777; a signed by his nom-de-peinture, Oscar a 1598 edition of Ptolemy's Geografla, proof copy of Robert Service's Songs of a Epfs. Five delightfully witty drawings by printed in Venice in 1598. It includes Sourdough (1907); the first impression of Canadian poet and artist, Joe Rosenblatt, "Descrittione della Geografla Universale" the first edition of L.M. Montgomery's are also hung on the walls of the readme by the editor, Giuseppe Rosaccio, with Anne of Green Gables (1908); and a forty-two maps that purport to be more volume presented to Vincent Massey by modem but perpetuate Ptolemy's incorrect the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto in 1927, by a treasured atlas belonging to the positioning of Asia. Travels to Senegal, amusingly illustrated by J.E.H. MacDonald. Mathews family. The earliest owner was India and Egypt are described in four Items from many Canadian literary Daniel Mathew [sic], whose signature is books by Michel Adanson (1759), Thomas manuscript collections are also shown, dated 1750. Bookplates of other family Pennant (1798), Vivant Denon (1803) and including those of Gwendolyn MacEwen, members include Thomas George Charles Ramus Forrest (1824) respectively. Rosemary Sullivan, Barry Callaghan, Eldon Mathews, the publisher, Elkin Mathews, The final item is the very interesting Garnet, Robert Finch, Earle Birney, Elspeth and C.K. Mathews, whose daughter, manuscript, Log of HMS "Caesar",kept by Cameron, William Keith, David Young, Elizabeth, donated the work. This compos- Robert Jukes Hughes on crossings be- Karen Mulhallen, and Beverley Slopen. ite atlas, or atlas compendarius, is made tween Malta and Beirut between 1859 and Charles Pachter's drawings and designs for up of maps produced by different cartog- 1862. Margaret Atwood's The Journals of raphers and publishers and bound The English and American Literature Susanna Moodie are also displayed. First together in one large volume. It includes case ranges from the seventeenth to the conceived as a collaborative effort with forty-three hand-coloured maps, mostly twentieth centuries, beginning with Margaret Atwood in 1969, the work was depicting Europe, and dating mainly from George Sandys's translation of Ovid's not published until 1980, although the text the 1740s.. Many are illustrated with Metamorphosis Englished, printed in appeared in 1970 with Margaret Atwood's vignettes and views. Oxford in 1632. The second item shown is own illustrations. This exhibition is an expression of a collection of forty-one poems bound Material from other recently donated gratitude to all donors, including those together. Although there is a handwritten manuscript collections include papers by whose gifts could not be shown for lack of list of the contents, there is no indication the Jamaican poet, Lorna Goodison, and space. As Richard Landon says in the as to who was responsible for collecting typescript translations by the Canadian introduction to the catalogue, "Floreat and binding them in this way. All were Paul Wilson for works in Czech by Josef Bibliophilia". printed in London, the first being dated Skvorecky and Vaclav Havel. Posters, 1688, another dating from 1727 and the photographs and other memorabilia from Elisabeth Anne Jocz remainder from 1733 or 1734. A fine set of the Moses Znaimer Collection are among Katharine Martyn the six volumes of the fist edition of the works featured on the reading room Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (17491, and the walls. second and third editions of Jane Austen's . Patent Medicine Collection

(This is the third in a series of occasional annual almanac which he distributed in firms for the Canadian market beginning at articles describing lesser-known collections sixteen million copies in twenty-one the same time period. The American in the Fisher Library) languages. In 1892 the Ladies Home almanacs are commonly found with the The Patent'Medicine collection consists Journal ceased to accept patent medicine stamp or printed advertisement of their of a wide range of materials documenting advertising. In 1904 it printed the results of Canadian distributor on the back cover. In the patent medicine industry from the mid- chemical analyses of patent medicines, the Ayer's series, for which we have issues nineteenth century to the 1960s and 1970s. and the subsequent publicity and public dating from the second year of publication Although herbal tonics and remedies are discussion helped to bring about the (1862) to 1923, there are examples of of ancient origin, it was not until the passage of the United States Federal Food distributors from St. Thomas to Picton, and nineteenth century that the making and and Dmg Act in 1906 and the Proprietary some from Ontario towns now virtually marketing of patent medicines became a or Patent Medicine Act in Canada in 1908. unknown, such as Bainsville, St. Ann's and significant industry, particularly in North The industry then rapidly declined - from Burgoyne. Separate Canadian editions of America, and patented concoctions such a total of 22,000 patented medicines in American almanacs were also produced, as Burdock Blood Bitters, Dr. Thomas's Canada before the legislation to a mere with Canadian content differing from that Eclectric Oil, and Cherry Pectoral became 1,500 different products in 1976. of their American counterparts, and some household names. The industry reached its The collection includes examples of a of these were also published in French- zenith in North America in the 1880s and variety of printed materials used to language editions. In some cases the advertise the medicines, from actual collection contains both Canadian and LJ product labels and tradecards to health American editions of the same tide for the bides, songbooks, cookbooks and same year. almanacs. Almanacs, because they are The earliest Canadian imprint in the annuals and the Library often has exten- collection, R. Stark's Canadian Almanac sive runs of a particular tide, afford an and Receipt Book, was published in 1861 opportunity to trace the development of for the druggist, Robert Stark, in the industry and its advertising strategies Woodstock, Ontario. This series lasted over a period of many decades. Almanac only three years, but is notable in that advertising depicting logos, trademarks Stark "late student of material medica .. . and graphics associated with brand names, Glasgow University" appeared to have popularized a company's image and made prepared his medications himself, and was it recognizable and familiar to readers. not merely acting as an agent for a large Printed almanacs have an illustrious manufacturer. His products offered cures history, going back to the incunabula for both man and beast, and included period. One of the first products of Cherry Balm, Magical Pain King, and Gutenberg's press was a sheet almanac of Mecca Horse Cure. Another early example 1448, and almanacs were bestsellers of the is Geotgens Canadian Almanac and seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as Recipe Book for 1871, published by T.W. well as being among the first imprints of Georgen & Sons in Barrie, Ontario, and many of the pioneer presses in Canada. printed by Love11 in Toronto. It includes Their popularity, and the fact that they some discussion of a dispute over trade- were consulted by the household through- marks with the American firm of Radway out the year, made them the ideal vehicle & Co., which was decided in favour of for advertising. By the latter decades of the Georgens by a Canadian court. The Davis nineteenth century, almanacs survived & Lawrence Co. of Montreal was a Georgens Canadian Almanac and Recipe mainly as promotional handouts for prominent Canadian firm and its Pain Book for 1871. commodities such as patent medicines, Killer Almanac appeared from the early insurance and even sewing machines. 1870s. The T. Milbum Company was 1890s, sponsoring multi-million dollar While they still contained many of the started in Acton in 1867 and moved to advertising campaigns to reach an ever traditional elements, including the calen- Toronto in 1873. Its product, Burdock wider audience and market share. One dar, weather prognostications, riddles, Blood Bitters, was also a Canadian commentator has noted that "such huge rhymes and anecdotes, the bulk of the invention, and the collection has examples sums were spent on newspaper advertis- contents consisted of overt product of its almanacs from 1879 to 1931. ing that the newspapers and magazines advertising and testimonials from satisfied Northrup and Lyman was another success- were mainly supported by the patent- customers, relating the details of their ful Canadian firm, established in 1854 in medicine industry in the decades following miraculous 'cures'. Newcastle, Ontario and moving to Toronto the Civil War". James Ayer, one of the The first Canadian patent medicine in the mid 1870s. They were the Canadian kings of the industry, advertised in some almanacs date from the early 1860s, and agents for Ayer's products, but also 1,900 newspapers and periodicals, and ran there are also many examples of Canadian his own paper mill in order to produce an editions and issues produced by American continues on back page.. . Printing, Binding and Birds: The Year of Great Exhibitions and Great Catalogues

This has been a banner year for the ment of the city and the growth of the approaches to the various technical Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book printing industry as it expanded with the problems that he has encountered. In Library. Four exceptional exhibitions and city. She gave an impressive survey of two order to meet his need for unique fhh- catalogues have graced this year, and hundred years of the printing press in ing tools for the specific bindings he fortunate, indeed, is the friend who saw all Toronto. worked on, Michael made his own tools the exhibitions and attended all the Tuesday 20 September marked the including the impressive snowshoe lectures. The speakers were sterling, the opening of "In Retrospect: The Art and illustrated in the catalogue and several exhibitions outstand- cloisonne style tools. He also described logues most impres- new onlay tech- sive productions. niques and a unique Thanks to the Friends 'conservation/ it was a great year. pi- display" binding he -* developed. It was a menced with the '1 delightful evening for Tuesday 15 Septem- 'A all who attended. ber opening of the The opening of "Toronto in Print" Art on the Wing: exhibition that British, American celebrated 200 years and Canadian of the printing press Illustrated Bird Books in Toronto. The from the 18th to the exhibition, prepared 20th Centuries by Sandra Alston and served as a wonder- Patricia Fleming, ful antidote to the presented "a consid- January winter eration of print in the weather. The life of the city and its exhibition was a people, people as visual delight with readers and writers, many striking people on the job Above left: Michael Wilcox speaks about the art of bookbinding. illustrations comple- and at play, and Above right:Joan Winearls with M.F. Feheley mented by original people working in sketches and the printing trades, both in production and Craft of Michael Wilcox". Michael's paintings. The accompanying poster, and as artists". Pursuing a number of themes, selection of twenty-three bindings from his catalogue with impressive colour illustra- including politics, education and religion, life's work created a stunning exhibition. tions throughout and an informative text, the exhibition and accompanying cata- This retrospective documented the completed a thoroughly entertaining logue document the pervasive influence of exceptional creativity, artistic range and evening. print upon the city. The catalogue, Toronto the technical mastery of his bindings. On Thursday 11 February, Joan in Print: The Celebration of 200 Years of Working sketches and the binding tools Winearls presented a fascinating lecture on the Printing Press in Toronto, 1 798-1998 created for the bindings provided further "Three Centuries of Bird Illustration". was produced by Coach House Printing, insights into Michael's approach to a Illustrating her talk with slides, Joan traced using the new typeface, Cartier Book. binding. The accompanying catalogue the development of bird illustration from On Thursday 1 October, Sandra Alston, which includes a memoir by Michael, the old "stump and stare" style through the Canadiana Specialist at the University of colour illustrations of all the bindings, and centuries to the impressive number of Toronto, spoke on "Toronto in Print: 200 Michael's comments on each work, is well modem Canadian and American illustra- Years of the Printing Press in Toronto, on its way to becoming a collector's item. tors. She described the rural settings and 1798-1998". Her talk demonstrated how 'Old ways and new ways, or, When natural stance of Bewick's wood engrav- the products of the press reflected the life traditional ain't sufflcional" was the title ings and then discussed Audubon's and times of Toronto. Throughout the talk, that drew a full house to hear master accomplishments, among them the she showed captivating vignettes such as bookbinder, Michael Wilcox, speak on presentation of life-size birds in very active the 1832 printing of a carrier's address on Wednesday 4 November. In a talk richly poses. The influence of lithography on a moving sleigh, and the 1934 observation illustrated with slides of his many stunning bird illustration of the nineteenth century that "when you look around in a super- bindings, Michael described the ways in was presented with consideration of the market, printing inks are mostly what you which he has strayed from the traditional see". She highlighted both the develop- paths of binding and developed different continues on back page.. . Members of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Libra y 1998- 1999 Patron Margaret Atwood*, Albert and Nancy Friedberg*, George B. Kiddell, Louis Melzack*, Hilary V. Nicholls, Barbara Pathy, Alex Pathy, John Slater*, Ralph Stanton*, Sun Life of Canada, Moses Znairner* Associate Janet Archibald, Jane Armstrong, Gerry & Elizabeth Bentley, Stan Bevington, Claude Bissell, Cassels Brock & Blackwell, Catherine Delaney, Marie A. DunSeith, M.F. Feheley, Suzanne Gayn, Freda & Patrick Hart Green, Garrett Herman, William J. Keith, John T. Mayhall, Mark McLean, Ronald Peters, Joseph Pope, Wentworth D. Walker, Michael Walsh, John Weatherall Sponsor Harry & Marian Ade, Marion E. Brown-Roberts, Janet Dewan, Florence Drake, Chester Gryski, Carol Helrnstadter, Janet E. Hutchison, Marie Korey, Richard Landon, Duncan McLaren, James Rainer, Patrick Watson, Bruce Westwood, Joan Winearls Supporting Donalda Badone, John Beattie, M.E. Louise Beck, Michael Black, Cicely Blackstock, Michael Bliss, Hartwell Bowsfield, Alvan Bregman, D. Grant Brown, Graham R. Butler, Vera Chau, J. Geoffrey Chick, Alan Chong, Dana Colarusso, Alan W. Conn, Dorothea M. Cook, Nola-Susan Crewe, Malcolm Davidson, Mavis Davison, James Doak, C. Jane Dobell, Ann C. Douglas, Diane Dragasevich, George Dutton, William Edwards, John J. Elder, Betty Elliott, Peter Enneson, David & Ingrid Epp, P. Ferley, Brian Fitzgerald, Pat Fleming, Robert Fulford, Natsuko FUN^^, George J.M. Gale, J.H. Galloway, Arnold B. Gardner, Gayle Garlock, Wayne Gooding, William Gray, Mary Gurney, Edna A. Hajnal, Frances G. Halpemy, Mitzi Hamilton, Sidney M. Hams, Grace Heggie, George Hendry, Robert Hendry, Fred David Hoeniger, Alan Home, Geraldine Hughes, 'William B.G. Humphries, John Coutts Library Services, Ken Johnston, Kyle Jolliffe, Donald S. Jones, Johanna & Leon Katz, Brian Kennedy, Michael Large, Sylvia Lassam, John B. Lawson, Q.C., Malcolm Lester, Larry Levenstein, Paul Lockwood, George W. MacCready, Neil D. MacDonald, Leslie MacLean, Edward F. Maeder, Marion Magee, Dina Gordon Malkin, David Mason, James D. McLean, Don McLeod, Philip Meany, Robert Mede, J. & M. Millgate, Dorothy Millichamp, Kathryn Mills, C.W. Mollins, Carole Moore, Rachele Muia, Ralph A. Nablow, Philip & Gayle Olsson, Eleanor M. Parke, Emilio Passani, Robin Patterson, Luba Pendzey, John Pepall, Peter Emeson Design Inc., Jennifer Puncher, Eric Robertson, Ann Robson, Enrico Rota, Carol Rothbart, Robert Russel, Paul Russell, Christopher Ryan, Stuart Samuels, Katalin Schafer, Keith Schmeidel, Thomas T. Schweitzer, Dorene Seltzer, Sonja Sinclair, J.R. Smith, Wiebke Smythe, Fernando J. Soto, Robert Stacey, Donald B. Sterling, Christina Duff Stewart, Tim Stewart, Patricia E. Stone, Richard Storr, Anne Sutherland, Almos Tassonyi, W. Greg Taylor, Steven Temple, Dana Tenny, Virginia Te~y,John B. Tinker, Fred Turner, Harry Underwood, S. & G. Upjohn, Nancy van der Poorten, Jane V. Wheeler, Jean Whiffii, Brenda Whitlock, Sean Wilrnut, Jay Yedvab, Elaine Zinkham Individual Ernest J. Aplin, John H. Astington, John L. Ball, K.R. Bartlett, Bernard Baskin, John Beckwith, R.H. Blackburn, William Blissett, Harald Bohne, Graham Bradshaw, Robert Brandeis, Marjorie Bronfman, Virginia Brown, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Sharon Brown, Ruth Carroll, M. CirflWalton, John Collins, Eleanor Cook, Reed &Jane Cooper, Linda Corman, Natalie Davis, Elizabeth Derbecker, Leslie G. Derbecker, Anne Dondertman, Wilhelmina M. Drake, Susan Duff, Peter B. Edwards, Betsy Palmer Eldridge, A. Murray Fallis, Lois Fleming, Grey Gatenby, Maxine Goldberg, Elaine Granatstein, Alastair Grant, Victoria Grant, Antonia Greenwood, Phyllis Grosskurth, Rachel Grover, H. Donald Guthrie, David M. Hayne, Robin Healey, Elmar C. Hodsoll, Leslie Howsam, Ann M. Hutchison, J.R. De Jager Jackson, Heather Jackson, Florence L.D. Johnston, Asher Jorarn, Helen R. Kahn, Karin Kattai, Donald G. Kendall, A. Kenshole, David B. Kotin, Michele Lacombe, Ian Lancashire, Portia Leggat, Lucia Le Guen, Douglas LePan, Bruce Lewis, Rolph Loeber, Mary Lund, Margaret C. Maloney, Albert Masters, Elizabeth Mathews, Leslie McGrath, Linda K. McKnight, Randall McLeod, Keith A. McLeod, Lachlan McNair, Helen McNeil, Mary McTavish, Hugh Morrison, Karen Mulhallen, Michael O'Shea, Harvey Olnick, Wanda Parker, David Pelteret, Phyllis Platnick, Mildred Price, R. Gerald Prodrick, Lauren D. Rachlin, Joan R. Randall, Andre Rosenbaum, H. Michael Rosenstock, Andrea Rotundo, John Rush, Ann Saddlemeyer, Peter J. Savage, Roger M. Savory, Gordon M. Sawa, Michael J. Sidnell, John G. Slater, Helen B. Smith, Carl Spadoni, Judith G. St. John, Andrew Stewart, William Stoneman, Gillian Talbot-Fenwick, C. Adrienne Taylor, Douglas F.S. Thomson, H. Leslie Thomson, Faith Van Wart, Germaine Warkentin, Leon S. Warmski, John Whaley, Kenneth Whyte, Mary F. Williamson, Roger D. Wilson, F.E. 'Winter, Douglas Woods, Robert Wright, James Yates, Sheila Yeomans, Anthony Zambataro

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*Gift in Kind members are listed only at the Patron level. eft: Burdock Blood Bitters Almanac for 1884. I@Menwriam Douglas LePan 1914-1998 Douglas LePan, diplomat, professor, and manufactured some of their own medica- writer, had one of those extraordinary tions, including the Canadian Pain De- careers that seem to have been available stroyer. Anaher successful Canadian firm only to previous generations. An advisor was Dodds Medicine Co. of Toronto, and to General McNaughton during the War, the collection contains examples of its he joined Canada's diplomatic service in almanacs from 1899 to 1961. 1946 and remained in External Affairs until In this brief overview of the patent 1959. He then became a Professor of medicine collection, the discussion has English at Queen's University and, from been mainly limited to almanacs, but of 1964 to 1970, served as Principal of equal interest are the cookbooks, University College, University of Toronto. songbooks, family health guides, and He was a University Professor and a long- tradecards. Each genre of material time Senior Fellow of h4assey College. His Irepays study for historians of medicine, book of poetry, The Net and the Sword as well as of print culture. These (1953), won a Governor-General's Award, printed artefacts are a fascinating as did his novel, The Deserter (1964). index of the popular culture of their As one would expect, such a career produced a rich and varied trove of papers, which Douglas LePan began giving to the Fisher Library some years ago. The final accession will now come from his sons, Don and Nick.

.. . contintied from page 10 accomplishments of Edward Lear, John average price increase of seven times the Gould and others. Joan concluded with an prices of the first sale. Price increases on overview of the first half of the twentieth individual titles varied from no increase to Jeanne LouiseAnson-Cartwrtght century, discussing the art of Ernest 120 times. Emphasizing that the three 1 May, 1930 -25 November9 1998 Thompson Seton, Abbott H. Thayer, Louis basic principles of pricing are the impor- . The Frtends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Agassiz Fuentes, Allan Brooks, Roger Tory tame of the text, condition and rarity, he Book Library extend their,Sympathy to Peterson, Terry Short, and J. Fenwick can went on to observe that importance Hugh Anson-Cartwnght on the death of his Lansdowne. change with fashion, condition is condi- wife, Jeanne. The fifth annual Gryphon Lecture on tional, and most "rarities" are really only the History of the Book took place on scarce. Collectors and antiquarian dealers Wednesday 10 March. William Reese, one alike were fascinated by this discussion of of the leading Americana rare book the mysteries of pricing rare books. dealers, attempted to take some of the The Friends' 1998-1999 season ended Editor's Note mystery out of how he prices rare boob with the opening of a particulady delight- This issue was edited by Gayle Garlock in his talk "Rare Books and Mysterious ful exhibition on Thursday May. Friends 13 and Anne Jocz, and designed by Maureen Prices". Stressing that pricirig is an art not and donors alike gathered to enjoy "In Morin. Comments and/or suggestions 'a science, he reminded us of the imperfect Honour of Our Friends: A Celebration of should be sent to Gayle Gariock, Director, forces of market supply and demand by Gifts to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Development and Public Affairs, University observing that "there was a time wben rare Library 1995-1998". The exhibition of Toronto Library, Toronto, Ontario M5S books were common". Since then, institu- reinforces the generosity of our donors in 1A5 (416) 978-7655. tional demand and private collectors have the building of a truly great research The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the driven the demand upward. Using the collection. The Fisher Library staff took Friends of The 715omas Fisher Rare Book 1966-1969 Streeter Sale as a benchmark, particular pleasure in preparing this Library is published twice a year in he pointed out that in his 1993 "Streeter exhibition for it offers us the opportunity November aad June. Halcyon includes Sale Revisited" catalogue he offered eight to thank all of our donors for their short articles on recent noteworthy gifts percent of the Streeter titles with an impressive gifts. and acquisitions of the Fisher Bare Book Library, recent exhibitions in the Fisher Library, activities of the Friends and other short articles of interest to the Friends. Members of the editorial board of Halcyon are Gayle Garloek, Editor, Aane University of Toronto Library Jocz from the Fisher Library, and Maureen Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 Morin from the Information Commons.