(Rare Books & Manuscripts) This collection is the result of the first Keeper of Rare Books, Zoltan Haraszti’s farsighted interest in and purchase of hundreds of incunabula and products of the fine French press. Contents of the fine press collection are documented in the catalog and a series of informal lists that also cover types of bindings and binders.
Informally known within the library as the "Q-points" (the classification system under which they are filed), the collection contains hundreds of 20th-century fine press publications, type specimens, and facsimiles; an extensive collection of editions from the Kelmscott Press, dozens of early Elzevir and Aldine editions, and a significant collection of 16th- and 17th-century Bibles and psalters, among others.
An extensive imprint file groups books by place and date of publication. (Rare Books & Manuscripts)
See also: Incunabula at the Boston Public Library
