Special Collections

Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design

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We’re starting a zine collection at the RISD Library! Feel free to send donations or contact us with suggestions or questions. risdspecial (at) risd.edu

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RISD Students, get out your bonefolders, we’re doing it again! The Fleet Library is proud to present the Second Annual Student Artists’ Book Juried Contest and Exhibition. http://risd.libguides.com/contest

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New principles of gardening: or, the laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before; with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general ... / by Batty Langley ...   RISD SPECIAL SB469.35.G7 L3 1728  

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This three volume set includes 300 plates with 9015 textile patterns. 

Grosses Bindungs-Lexikon: ein Musterbuch für jeden Textilfachmann und ein Leitfaden für die Gewebemusterung = Grand dictionnaire des liages = Large book of textile designs / edited by Franz Donat.

RISD Special Flat Folio TS1475 .D6 1904

Special Collections, Fleet Library at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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The White City (as it was): the story of the world's Columbian exposition illustrated by a series of eighty perfect pictures from photographs by W.H. Jackson / text by Selim H. Peabody and Stanley Wood.

Special Flat Folio   T500.C1 P43 1894  

Special Collections, Fleet Library at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 

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Plans des plus beaux jardins pittoresques de France, d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne/ Jean-Charles Krafft. 1809-10. RISD Special Flat Folio SB471 .K89

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Art & Industry, located in Special Periodicals. Pulled for an illustration class looking for tea packaging inspiration. RISD Special Periodical

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Pages from: Summa Summarum by Lennart Hellsing.  RISD SPECIAL NC986.5.S78 S85 1950  

Special Collections, Fleet Library at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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A page from: The Golden Funny Book, by Gertrude Crampton; illustrations by J.P. Miller. RISD Special NC975.5 .M543 G64 1950

Special Collections, Fleet Library at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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A page from: See and Say/ Antonio Frasconi. RISD Special NC 975.5 F72 S433 1955

Special Collections, Fleet Library at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art/ systematically arranged by J.G. Heck; translated from the German, with additions, and edited by Spencer F. Baird ... illustrated by five hundred steel plates, containing upwards to twelve thousand engravings. RISD Special NC 961.63 .H421 1851 Plates 1

Special Collections, Fleet Library at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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RISD students! Please consider entering your book works in our contest!