Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts Beautiful Useful Things

Beautiful Useful Things

a natural virtuoso who created brilliant drawings in a broad range of media

Featuring and adorable depiction of the Little Prince and the Fox

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

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts Beautiful Useful ThingsBelle 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".