640 book jackets published from 1895 to 1949 were mounted and subsequently bound by the Library in eight volumes. These book jackets are mostly Russian, except for the following:
This entire collection, called Scrap book of Russian Bookjackets, is held by the Rare Books Division (call no. *QDZ+++ (Scrap book of Russian bookjackets). There is a checklist by Olʹga Sidorova (in Russian but entries have annotations in English), Katalog knizhnoĭ oblozhki : iz sobrani︠i︡a Nʹ︠i︡uĭorkskoĭ Publichnoĭ Biblioteki, Slav︠i︡anskiĭ i Baltiĭskiĭ Otdel [1998] and the collection has also been digitized.