Editing Free Library of Philadelphia (section)

==Special collections==
Located at the [[Parkway Central Library]], the Free Library's Special Collections<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libwww.freelibrary.org/collections/|title = Special Collections}}</ref> span genres and generations, from ancient cuneiform tablets to historic photographs of Philadelphia.

The Free Library of Philadelphia's Children's Literature Research Collection houses an extensive research collection of children's literature published after 1836.

The Rare Book Department features one of the world's most renowned [[Charles Dickens]] collections, with first editions, personal letters, and Dickens’ stuffed pet raven, Grip, as well as extensive collections of [[illuminated manuscript]]s, Americana, [[Beatrix Potter]], early children's books, [[Edgar Allan Poe]], Pennsylvania German folk art, and more. The collection includes over 50 [[Book of hours|Books of Hours]] and numerous bibles, liturgical texts, and psalters, including the Lewis Psalter (Lewis E M 185), a masterpiece of Parisian illumination from the reign of [[Louis IX of France|Saint Louis]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Leaves of gold: manuscript illumination from Philadelphia collections|last=Tanis|first=James|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|year=2001|isbn= 978-0-87633-145-3|location=Philadelphia}}</ref>

The Free Library's music collections include the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, the largest lending library of orchestral performance sets in the world.

Additionally, the [[Rosenbach Museum & Library]] is a subsidiary of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation.<ref name="rosenbach.org">{{cite web|url=http://rosenbach.org/learn/news/qa-merger-rosenbach-museum-and-library-and-free-library-philadelphia-foundation|title=Q&A for merger of The Rosenbach Museum and Library and Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation|website=The Rosenbach|access-date=November 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118024523/https://rosenbach.org/learn/news/qa-merger-rosenbach-museum-and-library-and-free-library-philadelphia-foundation|archive-date=November 18, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>