Digital PUL

Lloyd E. Cotsen ’50 (1929-2017) donated his massive collection of international children’s literature to Princeton in 1994. This site hosts digital surrogates of materials held in the Cotsen Children's Library, including partial highlights.

Items purchased in whole or in part by the Friends of Princeton University Library

Collections

Liberty and the American Revolution

The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution covers the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States. Chiefly contemporary printed books and pamphlets.

The Scheide Library

The Scheide Library, received by Princeton University in 2015 as the bequest of William H. Scheide (Class of 1936), has strengths in several areas: medieval manuscripts and early printed books, especially those printed before 1500; early printed Bibles; selected monuments of English literature; Americana (especially early printed books relating to the New World); landmarks in the history of ideas; and music.

English Literature Collections