Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact Christine Mannix (cmannix@ccad.edu).

Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.

Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies. 

• 26 Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Ecole Française contemporaine, Musée du Luxembourg (Paris), 18??
• Anatomy of the horse, including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands …, George Stubbs, 1853  
• Cent chefs-d'Oeuvre : The Choice of the France private galleries, v. 2, 1883
• De la couleur, Henri Matisse, 1945
• Done in the open. drawings by Frederic Remington ; with an introd. and verses by Owen Wister and others, 1903 
• Etchings; German etchings on silk (one after Alma-Tadema), 188?
• Frescoes of Diego Rivera, 1933  
• Groot schilderboek, waar in de schilderkonst in al haar deelen grondig werd onderweezen… [Great painting book, thoroughly taught the painting art in all its parts], 1740
• Henri-Edmond Cross : carnet de dessins, 1959
• Masterpieces of European art, 1876
• Masterpieces of French art, illustrated, being a biographical history of art in French, from the earliest period to and including the salon of 1882 v.1 
• Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition illustrated, v. 1-3, 1876
• Museum of modern art, Moscow; thirty-five selected master pieces, 1935
• Mural painting of the Mexican Revolution, 1921-1960, 1960
• Paintings of George Bellows, 1929
• Sketchbook. Text by Raymond Cogniat. v. 1-3, Paul Gauguin, 1962
• Tre porte del Battistero di San Giovanni di Firenze, incise ed illustrate [Three doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, engraved and illustrated], 1821
• Turner Gallery ; a series of one hundred and twenty engravings from the works of the late J.M.W. Turner, R.A; v. 2, 1879
• Van Gogh and John Russell; some unknown letters and drawings, by Henry Thannhauser. Reprinted from the Burlington magazine, September, 1938 
• Victorian art : reproductions by the collotype process of some of the pictures in the loan exhibition held in the Art Gallery of the Corporation of London, at the Guildhall, in 1897.
• Whistler as I knew him, Mortimer Menpes, 1904

• Batiks de Java, n.d. (1920's)
• Der Bazar: illustrirte Damen-Zeitung Berlin, [Bazaar : illustrated women's magazine, Berlin; with needlework examples], 1870
• Broderies Chinoises [Chinese embroidery], (191?)
• Dentelles anciennes de la collection Alfred Lescure, Bruxelles, Malines, Valenciennes, Binche [Old lace from the Alfred Lescure collection, Brussels, Mechelen, Valenciennes, Binche], 1914
• Deutsche kunst und dekoration V. 15 & 18 [German Art Nouveau textiles]
• Étoffes byzantines, coptes, romaines, etc. du IVe au Xe siècle [Byzantine, Coptic, Roman fabric, etc. from the 4th to the 10th century], n.d. (1920's?)
• Fancy Dresses Described, Or What to Wear at Fancy Balls, 1887
• French theatrical costumes, n.d. (19th century)
• Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig und die Ausstellung der künstler-kolonie in Darmstadt von mai bis oktober 1901,  [Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and the exhibition of the artist colony in Darmstadt from May to October 1901]1901 [Art Nouveau textiles]
• Histoire de la dentelle [History of Lace], 1892
• Kultur und industrie südamerikanischer völker [Culture and industry of South American peoples], 1889-90
• Peterson's Magazine, 1850-1896 (an American women's magazine with embroidery and needlework designs)
• Some historical notes on linen, ancient and modern, 1906?
• Tapisseries et étoffes coptes [Coptic Tapestry and Rugs], 191-?
• Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928 : the evolution of the modern applied arts, 1928

• Aesop's Fables , Elisabeth Frink, 1968 
• Albrecht Dürer's woodcut work in selection with text [Selected woodcuts of Albrecht  Dürer, with text]
• Album Forain , Jean Louis Forain, 1896
• From Cranach's woodcuts; with an introduction: The artist's personality and his work  [From Cranach's woodcuts; with an introduction: The Artist's personality and his work], 18-?
• Biographical dictionary; containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time; and a short list of their most esteemed works , 1785-6  
• The Bottle , George Cruikshank, 1847
• Caricatures Françaises and étrangères d'autrefois et d'aujourd'hui , 1932 
• Catalog of the art department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute ... Boston, Mass., USA , 1883
• Complete woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer  edited by Dr. Willi Kurth, 1927
• Contemporary English Woodcuts , Campbell Dodgson, 1922
• De Romanorum magnificentia (in Italian, Della Magnificenza Ed Architettura De' Romani; in English, On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans), Giovanni Battista Piranesi
• The Secret Revelation of John.15 full images based on Albrecht Dürer's hand drawings and simultaneous text based on the Strasbourg edition by Martin Graeff, 1502  [The Secret Revelation of John. 15 full images of the hand drawings of Albrecht Dürer and simultaneous text after the Strasbourg edition of Martin Graeff,1502], 1902
• Discours historique sur la gravure en taille-douce et sur la gravure en bois  [Historical treatise on intaglio engraving and wood engraving], 1808  
• The Drunkard's Children, Being a Sequel to The Bottle , George Cruikshank, 1849
• ​Eaux -fortes sur Paris , 1926 Charles Méryon
• Engravings, 1928-1933 , Eric Gill, 1934
• Essays on Physiognomy , Johann Casper Lavater, translated by  Henry Hunter, DD London: John Murray, 1789-1798. (Includes engravings by William Blake, with designs by Henri Fuseli)
• Etchings; German etchings on silk (one after Alma-Tadema), 188? 
• Etchings illustrating Chaucer's 'Canterbury tales' , Elisabeth Frink, 1971  
• Exhibition of English mezzotint portraits from circa 1750 to circa 1830 , Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1902
• Gates of Paradise , v. 1-3, William Blake, 1968
• Holzschnitte: 1833-1870 , 1918 Honoré Daumier 
• Iliad of Homer; engraved from the compositions of John Flaxman , 1805
• In the dawn of the world. Being twenty-five pictures illustrative of a portion of the book of Genesis by Edward Burne-Jones, 1903 
• Das kupferstichkabinet. Nachbildungen von werken der graphischen kunst vom ende des xv. bis zum anfang des xix. jahrhunderts [Print Room. Replicas of graphic art works from the end of the xv. until the beginning of the xix. century],1897-1901
• Mythology Sculpture. A book of France 17th Century engravings  [Folio of garden statuary from Versailles, the Louvre, and the Tuilleries, 1680-1715]  
• Notes and souvenirs of Charles Méryon, his tomb in the cemetery of Charenton Saint Maurice , 1883
• Print gallery; reproductions of masterpieces of engraving from the end of the XVth to the beginning of the XIXth century, 1900
• The Print-Collector's Quarterly, 1911-1938 
• Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, dans le Cabinet du roi [Collection of prints from the most beautiful paintings and from the most beautiful designs that are in France, in the King's Cabinet; also known as the Cabinet or Recueil Crozat ], 1763 
• Rime of the ancient mariner. Illustrated by Gustave Dore, 1878 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
• Seltene frühe deutsche und italienische Graphik des XV. Jahrhunderts [Rare early German and Italian graphics from the 15th century], 1931
• The Vision of hell [The Inferno] by Dante Alighieri, illustrated by Gustave Doré

• Der Bazar: illustrirte Damen-Zeitung Berlin, [Bazaar : illustrated women's magazine, Berlin], 1870
• Deutsche kunst und dekoration[German Art Nouveau jewelry and metalwork]
• Le costume historique[Historic costume], 1888 (includes jewelry)
• Encyclopaedia of ironwork; examples of hand wrought ironwork from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century 
• English and Scottish wrought ironwork : a series of examples of English ironwork of the best periods, together with most of the examples now existing in Scotland 
• Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig und die Ausstellung der künstler-kolonie in Darmstadt von mai bis oktober 1901 [Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and the exhibition of the artist colony in Darmstadt from May to October 1901]
• Modern Design in Jewelry and Fans, 1902 [Art Nouveau jewelry]
• Peterson's Magazine, 1850-1896 (an American women's magazine with fashion plates, some in color)
• Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928 : the evolution of the modern applied arts 

• Decorations polychromes, 18? [Various decorative motifs from around the world]
• Décoration primitive Océanie : quarante-deux planches [Primitive Decoration of Oceania], n.d. (1920's)
• Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs,  [Shapes and colors: twenty color plates containing sixty-seven decorative motifs],192-? [Art Deco patterns]
• Inspirations : twenty-four plates, with 128 compositions, c1928 [Art Deco patterns]
• L'ornement polychrome...motifs de tous les styles, art ancien et asiatique, Moyen Age, Renaissance, XVIIe et XVIIIe sièce, [The polychrome ornamental patterns ... all styles, old and Asian art, medieval, Renaissance, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries],188-?
• Der Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen [The treasure ornaments, a pattern book of stylish ornaments from all periods of art] ,1887
• La plante et ses applications ornementales, [The plant and its ornamental applications], 1898
• Variations : quatre-vingt-six motifs décoratifs en vingt planches, [Variations: eighty-six decorative motifs twenty plates],1924 [Art Deco patterns]