I saw an interesting exhibition in the
small gallery in the Toronto Reference Library. They hold a small but pretty good exhibition regularly, previous theme was the popular
picture book, "Where the Wild Things Are", so I pay attention to the
gallery.
The theme this time is "A to Z".
They showcase some books, photography or other cultural items from their
collection that are associated with the letter "A to Z". For example,
"A" is for arctic exploration, so they showed an antique arctic map
and a photo of an icebreaker going on a frozen sea. Isn't it interesting?
"D" for Dracula, they showed the first edition of Bram Stoker's
Dracula. It must be a precious thing. "M" for miniature, there were books
and a bookshelf the size of a candy. What a variety of things the library has!
What I was most interested in was "I" for incunabula. I didn't know
that word, which means books printed in the first 50 years from the invention of the printing press (they are much older than Canada). It was not Gutenberg's printing, but it's definitely difficult see them in Japan. The
description of the incunabula said the library has 20 of this kind of book.
Despite the size of gallery, the exhibition is always well done.
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