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The Lodge collection of editions of classical authors (Greek and Roman) initially contained some 2000 volumes dating from the 15th through 19th centuries. Gift of Mrs. Gonzalez Lodge, 1944. There is also a separate group of Plautus materials.

The Book Arts Collection is both a major collection of examples of fine printing and book illustration, and a collection of books about various phases of bookmaking and related subjects. Book Arts was established in 1938, currently contains over 15,000 volumes and growing. The older part of the collection is shelved in Dewey classification. In 1975, we switched to a slightly-modified Library of Congress classification. Both Dewey and Library of Congress sets include BOOKART prefix). Additional cross-collection card catalogs of designers (654: 25A) illustrators (654: 25B-I) imprints (654 Mez: 62A-F), bindings (654: 24I-J, 654 Mez: 52C, 13V:1D) and presses (654: 26A-27H) are no longer maintained, but could still be useful.

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The Graphic Arts collection contains over 20,000 books on the history of printing and publishing, and related topics such as illustrative techniques, bookbinding, calligraphy, and book collecting. It thus overlaps significantly with the Book Arts Collection, though the books tend to be newer (post-1850). Created in the 1950s within the Library Service Library to serve the needs of library school students learning about the history of the book, the collection was transferred to RBML in 1991 when the library school was closed. The books, classed in the Library of Congress system, are found in CLIO.

A collection of 500 books about Hector Berlioz and his time, given to the library by Jacques Barzun in the 1950s. the collection is classed in Dewey with the prefix BERLIOZ

This collection of 3,933 volumes is formed from the union of the Spinoza collections of Adolph S. Oko and Carl Gebhardt, and contains material by and about Baruch Spinoza. Purchased and presented to the University by Dr. Simon L. Millner, Mrs. T.W. Lamont, Corliss Lamont, and Mr. E.A. Zabriskie, 1947.

William Evarts Benjamin, son of Park Benjamin (1809-1864), poet, editor and newspaperman, presented this collection of about 4,200 volumes to the Libraries in 1940. It is composed of New York imprints published between 1840 and 1865. Also in the collection are a number of issues of the "Mammoth" newspapers and others with which Park Benjamin was associated.

SEEC was created by a grant project to catalog the most interesting of the printed materials found in the manuscript collections of the Bakhmeteff Archive (BAR). The items are given accession numbers (e.g., SEEC 1056); a "gb" following the accession number indicates that the item is housed in a folder in a gray box (e.g., SEEC 1056gb). There are currently over 2500 items, all cataloged in CLIO. The original list of printed materials in the BAR (which includes many items not yet added to SEEC) can be found at the RBML reference desk.