Much of Widener’s most impressive marbling comes from books bearing the bookplate “From
Much of Widener’s most impressive marbling comes from books bearing the bookplate “From the Library of Count Paul Riant”. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Harvard librarians scoured Europe, often purchasing entire book collections from fading aristocrats in need of funds. Sounds like a Henry James novel. Found in Monuments des Grands-Maîtres de l’Ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem (1829) #marbledmonday #books #library #fadedaristocracy #harvard (at Harvard Yard) https://www.instagram.com/p/B53RXZbHzz9/?igshid=r8v7attmqj4f -- source link
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