Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts This colorful tarot pouch is

This colorful tarot pouch is bedecked with images from the classic Rider Waite tarot deck

activists and change-makers

and a matching satin ribbon page-marker

but he was also an avid music lover and designed a number of opera and ballet productions

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Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts This colorful tarot pouch isBelle 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".