Ex Libris Collection

From our libraries to yours.

Discover and celebrate ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Library's history through this vintage-inspired product line. Library staff searched high and low for some of the best public domain content from ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Libraries. Puzzles, notecards, magnets and mugs… from our library to yours! Take home the perfect gift.

The Latin term Ex Libris means “from the library of…” and is commonly featured in bookplates or labels pasted into books to identify their owners. A ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Library bookplate from the 1950s was modified to create the Ex Libris brand. .

Every Ex Libris purchase supports the ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Libraries' collections and activities.

Purchasing Options

On-site: Sales in the Reading Room, 4th floor McLennan library Building. Payment by Debit or Credit. See opening hours.
By phone - Call us at 514-398-4711 or email your order to rarebooks.library [at] mcgill.ca (rarebooks[dot]library[at]mcgill[dot]ca), payment by Credit card over the phone.
Online: To view item information or purchase items online via the : Click on the image to be directed to the item on their website.

1000-Piece Puzzle

Bird's-Eye View of ��Ǿ�Ʒ��. Watercolour by Percy E. Nobbs, 1925. John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection. .

1000-Piece Puzzle

The Redpath Library (now Redpath Hall). Sketch by A. Leslie Perry, Old ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Yearbook, 1924. ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Archives.

AMAZE - A ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� A to Z Experience

Brilliant paper engineers breathed life into 26 alphabetical wonders from the Library’s rare and special collections. Artworks, graphics, books, manuscripts, even physical objects leap from the page in this moveable, interactive book. .

Magnets

1. Detail from watercolour & ink sketch. Bird's-Eye View of ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� by Percy E. Nobbs, 1925. John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection.

2 and 3. The University Girls Series, [1907]. F. Earl Christy (1882–1961). ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Archives, 2007-0090.03.1.

Moments in Time | Instantporels

Mug

Detail from watercolour & ink sketch. Bird's-Eye View of ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� by Percy E. Nobbs, 1925. John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection. .

Rare Colour; A Natural History Colouring Book

Artwork from ��Ǿ�Ʒ��'s Black Wood Natural History Collection, ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Library.

Scarf

Image from Rhodes Hours, 1460-1465. Manuscript Book of Hours. MS 155. Rare Books and Special Collections, ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Library. .

Scarf

American Flamingo. John James Audubon (1785–1851). The Birds of America, London: Published by the author, 1827-38. Blacker Wood Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections.

Softcover Notebook - ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Roddick Gates Sketch

��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Student Handbook 1962-63. ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Archives.

Softcover Notebook - Nobbs sketch

Detail from watercolour & ink sketch. Bird's-Eye View of ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� by Percy E. Nobbs, 1925. John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection. .

Rare Colour ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� & Montreal

An Architectural Colouring Book. Description: A curated selection of historic buildings on ��Ǿ�Ʒ��’s downtown campus and notable Montreal monuments designed by architects from our collections.

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