Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Mug Morgan's Bibles and surprises await Thérèse

and surprises await Thérèse

Get crafty on any steel surface and make art with words

John the Evangelist and an unidentified female saint

it’s a prime example of the iconic storytelling genius that is Edward Gorey

and even people

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Mug Morgan's Bibles and surprises await ThérèseBelle 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".