Halifax: Dalhousie University. School of Library and Information Studies, Occasional Paper Series no. 58, 1996. 120 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 0-7703-9768-9.
In his introduction to this collection of essays, Eric Swanick remarks on the paucity of literature on Canadian book collectors. Swanick is certainly correct but offers no explanation. Collectors seldom keep records of their purchases, especially those of the period before spreadsheets, and their correspondence is often ...