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 […]
Rare Books
The Law It Self: Sir Edward Coke and his Lasting Authority
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 […]
Library of Parliament/Bibliothèque du Parliament Special Collection at Osgoode
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 […]
A Gift from Senator Adam Hope to Aemilius Irving
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: […]