Editing Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (section)

==Collections==
Among the collection's items are the ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'' (1493), [[Shakespeare]]'s [[First Folio]] (1623), and [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia]]'' (1687). Contrary to widespread internet claims,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.wikicollecting.org/thomas-fisher-rare-book-library-toronto |title=Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |publisher=Wikicollecting |access-date=2014-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410183919/http://en.wikicollecting.org/thomas-fisher-rare-book-library-toronto |archive-date=2011-04-10 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allancho.com/2014/02/thomas-fisher-rare-book-library.html | title=Allan's Library: An Academic Viewpoint | access-date=2014-07-22}}</ref> 
the library does not have [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s proof copy with annotations of ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' (1859); the library does however have annotated proof sheets of: ''[[The Power of Movement in Plants]]'',<ref>{{cite web| url=http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?198264 | title=The power of movement in plants [proof sheets] / University of Toronto Libraries | publisher=University of Toronto | access-date=2014-07-22}}</ref> ''[[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]'',<ref>{{cite web| url=http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?1773956 | title=The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [proof sheets] / University of Toronto Libraries | publisher = University of Toronto | access-date=2014-07-22}}</ref> and ''[[The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?810961 | title=The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom [proof sheets] / University of Toronto Libraries | publisher=University of Toronto | access-date=2014-07-22}},</ref> Other collections include [[Babylonia]]n [[cuneiform]] tablet from [[Ur]] (1789 BC), 36 Egyptian [[papyrus]] manuscript fragments (245 BC), and [[Catholicon (religious dictionary)|Catholicon]] (1460).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisherold/collect.htm |title=Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Collections |publisher=[[University of Toronto]] |access-date=2008-08-15}}</ref>

The [https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/collections/robert-s-kenny-collection Robert S. Kenny Collection] resides in the library. This immense collection of books, documents, and other materials pertaining to the radical and labour movements, particularly in [[Canada]], contains approximately 25,000 items collected by [[Robert S. Kenny]], who was a member of the [[Communist Party of Canada]]. The Canadian section, which has 382 books and 768 pamphlets, was acquired by the library from Kenny in 1977. The international section of the collection was donated by Kenny in 1993.

In addition, there is a collection of etchings by [[Wenceslaus Hollar]] (1607–1677) from the collection of Sidney Thomson Fisher. The collection consists of etching plates, original prints and published works by [[Wenceslaus Hollar]].<ref name="The Wenceslaus Hollar Collection 2017">{{Cite web|title=About the Fisher Hollar Collection|url=https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/about/fisher|website=The Wenceslaus Hollar Collection|date=18 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518152137/https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/about/fisher|url-status=live|archive-date=2023-05-18|access-date=2023-05-22}}</ref>

The library has a collection of 500 [[Valentine's Day|Valentines]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Dan Lytwyn |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-47203715/valentine-s-day-how-do-you-say-i-love-you-to-a-buttoned-up-victorian |title=Valentine's Day: How do you say 'I love you' to a buttoned-up Victorian? |publisher=BBC News |date=13 February 2019 |access-date=2019-02-14 |type=video, 1&nbsp;min 51&nbsp;sec}}</ref>

In April 2018, it was announced that the library had acquired the oldest English-language book in Canada, and its 15 millionth item, known as the ''[[Caxton Cicero]]'', which was printed in 1481 by the Englishman [[William Caxton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/news-and-articles/u-t-library-acquires-oldest-english-language-book-Canada|title=U of T library acquires the oldest English-language book in Canada|publisher=[[University of Toronto]]|date=23 April 2018|access-date=16 May 2018}}</ref>