We have over 60 named special collections of rare, early and special books. These pages list the main collections. They will be updated as new collections arrive and as existing collections are catalogued. Image Our top 12 collections Clement Litill David Laing William Drummond Adam Smith Incunabula Early Western manuscript books Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia Dugald Stewart Early Theses Corson (Walter Scott) Halliwell-Phillipps (Shakespeare) Thomas Nelson Alphabetical list of rare book collections Lord John Abercromby Sir Edward Victor Appleton Wystan Hugh Auden Bindings John Stuart Blackie Sigfus Blondal William Speirs Bruce Thomas Ryburn Buchanan Alexander Cameron Archibald Hunter Campbell Hugh Cleghorn Francis Albert Eley Crew A. S. Cumming Heiskell Darwin Collection Decorated Paper Andrew Duncan Edinburgh College of Art Rare Books Collection Edinburgh University Press Faculty of Actuaries William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Daniel Forbes James Geikie Forbes Gibb Lewis Grassic Gibbon William Ballantyne Hodgson Arthur Berriedale Keith Arthur Koestler Hugh MacDiarmid George Macdonald Aeneas Mackay Donald Mackinnon Andrew Malkiewicz Maps Alexander McCall Smith Karin Mcpherson James Nairne New College Library New Zealand Collection Private Press Collections Publishers' Collection David Goudie Ramage General John Reid Reid Music Library Royal College of Surgeons Royal Medical Society Robert Bertram Serjeant Session Papers Duke of Sussex John Thomson-Walker Donald Francis Tovey William Price Turner Veterinary Library Alfred Russel Wallace William Montgomery Watt Sophie Weisse James Cathcart White This article was published on 2024-08-21