The Raven Bookbinding Journal Medieval

The Raven Bookbinding Journal MedievalIn 1909 Belle da Costa Greene, librarian and the Morgan Library's fist Director, negotiated the purchase of the earliest known manuscript fragment of one of the greatest poems in American literature, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". The binding in which the Poe manuscript was once bound bears Greene's penciled research notes, indicating her ongoing work on the manuscript after its acquisition. Later she learns of a complete autograph manuscript of "The

a center of research based at the Morgan Library & Museum on the occasion of the 2023 Thaw Lecture

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Robert Sabuda's most amazing creation yet

papyrus scrolls

This porcelain and stoneware dish is microwave and dishwasher safe

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer represents Morris's most ambitious undertaking as a printer and designer as well as his swansong

or how it came to be created

The fifty-six locales featured in the manuscript are presented in a manner that suggests authority and objectivity but are rife with stereotypes and mischaracterizations

a West Coast transplant

and talking animals

This hand-marbled cushion is inspired by patterns on water

which was dispersed during the seventeenth century

everyone's a critic