Belle da Costa Greene Portrait Bookmark Medieval

Belle da Costa Greene Portrait Bookmark MedievalBelle da Costa Greene (18791950) was one of the most prominent librarians in American history. Born Belle Marion Greener into a prominent Black family in Washington, DC, she passed as white as Belle da Costa Greene in New York City with her mother and siblings. She ran the Morgan Library for forty three years, building one of the most important collections of rare books and manuscripts in the United States and beginning the robust program of

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An original and accessible approach to learning hieroglyphs

Artist Eric Ravilious’s stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

is one of the oldest writing systems in the world

This new collection contains 130 select plates from the octavo version

described in Gorey’s inimitable

Morris was also an influential teacher and lectured in the United States and across the United Kingdom

English novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote Frankenstein during a summer spent near Lake Geneva

an activist

Morgan’s personal librarian

and addressed

This lovely sketchbook features a study by the artist Walton Ford of a gray wolf leaping across the air