Approximately half the materials in the Rare Book Collection are designated within the RBC holdings as special collections named for their donors and/or their subjects or genres.
Named Collections
- George Baer Collection of Bookbinding
- Beats Collection
- Lord Byron Collection
- Cameron Sherlock Holmes Collection
- Francis Carco Collection
- Confederate Imprint Collection
- J. M. Dent Imprint Collection
- Charles Dickens Collection
- Estienne Imprint Collection
- Bernard J. Flatow Collection of Latin American Cronistas
- Robert Frost Collection
- Carl W. Gottschalk Collection on the Human Kidney
- Bowman Gray Collection of World Wars I and II graphic materials
- Archie Green Collection
- Grove Press Imprint Collection
- Hoyt Collection of French History (The Revolution and Napoleon)
- Incunabula
- Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Collection
- John Keats Collection
- Kellam “The Night Before Christmas” Collection
Named Collections (continued)
- C. S. Lewis Collection
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Renaissance
- Mass Market Paperbacks Collection
- Mazarinade Collection
- Minton Science Fiction Collection
- John Murray/Smith-Elder Imprint Collection
- Mystery-Detective Collection (Barzun-Taylor)
- James R. and Mary M. Patton Collection
- Henry Pearson Seamus Heaney Collection
- Walker Percy Collection
- André Savine Collection
- George Bernard Shaw Collection
- Southern Pamphlet Collection
- George E. and Melinda Y. Stuart Collection
- Ticknor and Fields Imprint Collection
- Travel Collection
- Victorian Bindings Collection
- Wilmer Civil War Novels Collection
- William Wordsworth Collection
- William Butler Yeats Collection