Digital Facsimiles

Album of Costume Studies

Italian School, mid to late 16th century, PML 5675.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Autograph manuscript. MA 628.

Jacques Louis David (1748–1825), Roman Album no. 8, 1998.1

Edward Lear (1812–1888). Illustrated nonsense alphabet, ca. 1859. MA 2946.

This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley.

The original manuscript of A Christmas Carol reveals Dickens's method of composition, allowing us to see the author at work.

Gherardo Cibo (1512–1600), Sketchbook, 1969.16

William Morris (1834–1896), Love is enough, or The freeing of Pharamond : a morality, London : Ellis & White, 1873, PML 77075

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1552 or 3–1608), Album, 1964.1

This fourteenth-century model book consists of eight parchment bifolios containing a total of more than seventy different drawings.

This sketchbook of architectural drawings is one of the most significant documents of buildings in early sixteenth-century Rome.

Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.