Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Mug Morgan's Bibles nuanced shading

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he was also a commissioner of some of the greatest French paintings of the eighteenth century

” and this collection proves it: with their wit

and surprises await Thérèse

John the Evangelist and an unidentified female saint

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Mug Morgan's Bibles nuanced shadingBelle 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".