“Toronto‘s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library recently announced the acquisition of a copy of Caxton’s 1481 Cicero (GW 6992; cf. http://gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/GW06992.htm), see https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-library-acquires-oldest-english-language-book-canada. Congratulations!
Speaking of incunabula acquisitions, may I hereby renew my appeal: All institutions, libraries, museums, archives, that acquire (or find, or inherit) incunabula copies are very kindly asked to report these acquisitions to both the GW and to the ISTC. Many colleagues in the US and elsewhere are already doing it, and we are very grateful for that; alas, many others don’t. An e-mail saying “We just bought a copy of GW 6992” is completely sufficient! It may enormously increase the visibility of your holdings, whereas newly acquired copies listed in an OPAC – and only in an OPAC – will more often than not remain hidden from the scholarly community at large.
Thanks, Falk
Dr. Falk Eisermann”
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OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (3. Mai 2018). A Caxton for the Fisher. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 23. Januar 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/c7h2