Rare Books and Special Collections houses many thousands of items ranging from published works to puppets, and is especially renowned for its holdings related to Canadiana, the history of printing, natural history, Enlightenment philosophy, and architecture.
The many unique collections and the information on this material can be found on the McGill Libraries art and distinctive collections pages.
Browse by subject area:
Arts and Architecture
Archival Collections and Manuscripts
Canadiana
Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana
Rodolphe Joubert Collection on French Canada
North West Company and merchant collections
Roy States Black History Collection
Guidebooks and settlement guides
Canadian literature
Ralph Gustafson Collection of Canadian Poetry
History of the Book
History of Ideas
Literature
Children’s Literature Collection
Canadian literature
Ralph Gustafson Collection of Canadian Poetry
John and Myrna Metcalf Collection
Canadian booksellers’ and publishers’ archives
British literature
Norman Friedman Rudyard Kipling Collection
Lawrence Lande William Blake Collection
Sir E.K. Chambers Shakespeare Collection
William Butler Yeats Collection
English literature manuscripts
French and German literature
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (fils) Collection
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Collection
18th century French literature
18th century French dictionaries
French history and literature manuscripts
Jewish literature
Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
Saul Shapiro Collection of Anglo-American Judaica
