After I wrote my previous post on finding those two books containing Sir John A. MacDonald’s autographs, I remembered another discovery of mine. I found this friendly fellow – with excellent hipster facial hair, I might add – as I was recataloguing books the other day. He looks to me like he belongs in one […]
Which is not to say I do not normally enjoy my job, because I do. I consider myself a bookish fellow, so to come to the library and work all day in a room full of old leather-bound volumes hardly even feels like work at all... okay, it feels a little like work. But as […]
Bacon and Shakespeare: what they were to philosophy and literature, Coke was to the common law. – J.H. Baker The Osgoode Library has recently been the recipient of an important donation from Fraser Laschinger, Osgoode ’73: a copy of the 12th edition of Sir Edward Coke’s famous commentary on Sir Thomas Littleton’s Institutes of the […]
Today’s post highlights a special collection within our Special Collections, a sub-special collection if you will. Can you guess why all of these books, sitting pretty in the Canada Law Book Rare Book Room (and not including those under that forbidding red squiggle), are related to each other and/or why they’re noteworthy? If you can’t […]
The library has recently acquired an excellent copy of the 1881 issue of the Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Registry. This particular copy was originally given as a gift from Senator Adam Hope to Aemilius Irving on April 29th, 1882. The inscription from Senator Hope is located on the front endpaper and is reproduced below: […]