Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts a natural virtuoso who created

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

and Duchamp

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the book holds a selection of photographs from the text volumes

and a matching satin ribbon page-marker

Belle da Costa Greene's Bookplate Tote Manuscripts a natural virtuoso who createdBelle 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".