Original format for most materials.
Appointments are necessary for use of manuscript and archival materials.
The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 167,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel. All rights are reserved. This collection of portraits, photographs, sketches, and author-related materials has been acquired and archived by various librarians and staff members from Fales Library since 1957. Further provenance information is unavailable.