Richard Landon: On Collecting Rare Books
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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 Toronto\\u2019s Graduate Department of English and the Faculty of Information. Among his publications are Bibliophilia Scholastica Floreat (2005), Ars Medica (2006), \\u2018Two Collectors: Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackney\\u2019 in Commonwealth of Books (2007), \\u2018The Elixir of Life: Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library, and Literary London\\u2019 in Literary Cultures and the Material Book (2007), and articles in the History of the Book In Canada (2004-2007).
We met in his office\\xa0to talk about his career, the role of a rare books librarian, the Encyclop\\xe9die, 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Charles Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, the future of the Thomas Fisher collection, ebooks, books about books, unpublished medieval texts and limitless collecting possibilities.\\xa0
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