Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Morgan's Bibles

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Morgan's BiblesBelle da Costa Greene, librarian and the Morgan Library's first director, was not shy on expressing her love of books through the titles she acquired for the library, her personal collection and especially as she described in personal and professional correspondence. Here, a bookplate that she often used, features a sentence in French "Un livre est un ami qui ne change jamais" that translates in English to "A book is a friend that never changes".

from Ancient Greece to the indigenous tribes of Australia

This pillow features an illustration by Beatrix Potter in one of her letters sent to a child

and papyrus

independent research library

Buddha attaining enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree

Gorman explores history

Ravilious was fascinated with Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and drama

this free-spirited journal will help you create

rather than leaves from a fully realized manuscript

Fred Shuttlesworth

Jane Austen’s classic tale follows the ups and downs of the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr

Photography by Carmen González Fraile