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Richard Landon is Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
and Professor of English. He has taught courses on aspects of the
history of the book and bibliography for many years in the University
of Torontoâs Graduate Department of English and the Faculty of
Information. Among his recent publications are Bibliophilia Scholastica Floreat (2005), Ars Medica (2006), âTwo Collectors: Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackneyâ in Commonwealth of Books (2007), âThe Elixir of Life: Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library, and Literary Londonâ in Literary Cultures and the Material Book (2007), and articles in the History of the Book In Canada (2004-2007).
We met recently in his office
to talk about his career, the role of a rare books librarian, the EncyclopÃdie,
changes that have occurred in the market place, collecting as
scholarship, Charles Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, the future of the
Thomas Fisher collection, ebooks, books about books, unpublished
medieval texts and limitless collecting possibilities. Please listen
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