Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Mug Medieval Money to twenty-first century losses

to twenty-first century losses

Nickleby in the Empress card

When a pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert

Pencil not included

This handsome leather-bound edition includes the most acclaimed novels of each of the Brontë sisters: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Mug Medieval Money to twenty-first century lossesBelle 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".