Print and Manuscript Collections
The print collections of the Rare Books and Special Collections department at the Fisher Library are many and varied, reflecting the wide diversity of research conducted at the University of Toronto by its own faculty and students, visiting scholars, and the general public. Chronologically, they range from books from the earliest days of the printing press to modern artists' books.
The following is a listing of many of the collections here at the library.
Displaying 126 - 150 of 177Collection of works by, about, and from the personal library of Canadian poet Richard Outram (1930–2005). The collection includes materials published by Gauntlet Press, the now defunct Canadian private press founded by Outram and his wife Barbara Howard (1926–2002). Consists of books, broadsides, manuscripts, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Collection of signed English publishers’ bindings dating from 1846–1880. Among the designers represented are John Leighton, W. H. Rogers, A. W. Warren, John Sliegh, and Robert Dudley. Consists of books.
Collection of materials related to Louis Riel, the Métis, the Red River Resistance (1869–1870), and the North-West Resistance (1885). Consists of books and periodicals.
Collection of typewritten samizdat works written in Czech and Slovak by authors not permitted to publish officially in Czechoslovakia before 1989. Samizdat refers to works of literature published, copied, and circulated in secret due to censorship. Consists of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Collection of postcards printed in the late twentieth century featuring prints of Portugal in colour. The collection includes depictions of diverse Portuguese regions including Lisbon, Madeira, and the Algarve. Changes in the landscape of Portugal, as well as changes to postcard manufacturing and usage are well documented. Consists of printed ephemera.
Collection of ephemeral material issued during and after the Carnation Revolution that took place in Lisbon in 1974. Consists of printed ephemera.
Collection of works by the French philosopher August Comte (1798–1857) and his followers. Consists of books.
Collection of works that contain accounts of paranormal phenomena. The collection includes psychical research, supernatural histories, and science fiction. Consists of books and periodicals.
Collection of Rabbinic literature, dating from the late fifteenth century to the late twentieth century, from the working library of prominent Canadian Rabbi and scholar Rabbi Abraham Price (1900–1994). Consists of books.
Collection of Radio Free Europe publications with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. The collection includes newspaper clippings about the area from 1948–1976 and numerous issues of a research and analysis publication entitled Prehled tisku. Consists of periodicals.
Collection of works by and about American writer Joyce Carol Oates (1938–). Consists of books.
Collection of material primarily theological in subject and printed before the twentieth century. The collection is on loan from Regis College. Consists of books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Collection of works on the subject of radicalism, communism, and socialism throughout the world in various formats and languages. Among the authors represented are Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. Consists of books, broadsides, pamphlets, periodicals, and printed ephemera.
Collection of works in multiple editions and printings by British-Canadian poet and writer Robert W. Service (1874–1958). Consists of books.
Collection of works issued by the Royal Canadian Institute. Consists of pamphlets and periodicals.
Collection of text books collected by Canadian writer and Anglican clergyman Henry Scadding (1813–1901). The collection includes works used by Scadding while he was a student and teacher at Upper Canada College during the nineteenth century. Consists of books.
Collection of medieval manuscripts and incunabula. Consists of early printed books.
General collection of works in all branches of the sciences, medical science excluded, with a focus on renaissance and seventeenth century English experimental science. Consist of books, maps, pamphlets, and periodicals.
General collection of works in chapbook format on a variety of subjects. Many of the chapbooks in the Library were collected by the wood-engraver, illustrator and humorist Joseph Crawhall (1821–1896) who, with Andrew Tuer, initiated a brief revival of the chapbook form at the Leadenhall Press in the 1880s. Consists of chapbooks.
Collection of works by minor Scottish poets of the nineteenth century. The collection represents established publishing centres as well as scarce and unusual imprints issued by local printers in smaller communities scattered across the country. Labouring-class poets are well represented alongside poets from middle or upper class backgrounds. Consists of books.
General collection of works on the subject of Australia and Oceania. Consists of books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and printed ephemera.
Collection of the four Shakespeare folios as well as subsequent editions of both collected and individual works dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Some early editions of works believed to be sources for Shakespeare’s plays are also included in the collection along with music settings for Shakespeare’s songs, and general Shakespeariana such as forgeries and biographies. Consists of books.
Collection of works from the library of the first Lieutenant-Governor General of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806) and his father John Simcoe at Wolford Lodge, Devon. The collection is military in focus. Consists of books.
Collection of works on British philosophy. Consists of books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Collection of works on American philosophy. Consists of books, pamphlets, and periodicals.