Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts from the dark seductions of

from the dark seductions of Francisco José de Goya and Albrecht Dürer to the elegant paean to the magickal feminine as re-imagined by the Surrealist circle of Remedios Varo

photographing corporate ad campaigns

the codex―or book―became the preferred medium for long texts

it was dismissed as a mere tool for creating preparatory studies

One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts from the dark seductions ofBelle 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".