Book Collections

Historic Children's Literature Collection

The Historic Children's Literature Collection contains over 3,000 titles of 17th-20th-century books providing a wide range of resources for the study of American and English society and culture. The collection includes examples of alphabet books, primers, books of grammar and readers, books of etiquette and bestiaries, story books, fables, boys and girls books, series books, and moral tales. It is a fine collection to study the history of the book, color printing, and book illustration. It also includes examples of many major illustrators of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Rackham, Dulac, Greenaway, Wyeth and LeMair. More...

Hilen 19th Century Americana Collection

The Hilen 19th Century Americana Collection includes extensive holdings of published works of 19th century American authors, with an emphasis on women authors. More...

Authors Collection

The European author collections include Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, Charles Dickens, and William Butler Yeats; 20th-century American author collections include Pacific Northwest poets, literary works set in the Pacific Northwest, Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.  More...

--adapted from a woodcut by Urs Graf in Statuten des Karthauserordens, 1510