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Rare Books

This guide will introduce you to the Rare Books Collection and provide resources for researching rare books.

Rare British Literature at Texas Tech

Two lines of text above an illustration of two blond and bearded men in a boat, from the poem "Patience" in the Pearl Manuscript.

TTU Rare Books holds authentic and facsimile reproductions of texts spanning over 1,000 years of English literary history. Authors collected include William Shakespeare, John Milton, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, W.B. Yeats, A.E. Coppard, W.H. Auden, and John Edmund Gardner. In addition to one of the most extensive collections of Joseph Conrad publications in the United States, our library is home to the Dalhousie manuscripts of John Donne's writings, the Peter Brereton Collection of Irish Broadside Ballads, and the following items:

Researching Historical British Literature

General Reference

Bibliographies and Catalogs