Remarkable Books: The World's Most Beautiful and Historic Works Medieval

Remarkable Books: The World's Most Beautiful and Historic Works MedievalA beautifully illustrated guide to more than 80 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books and handwritten manuscripts ever produced, with discussions of their purpose, features, and creators.

He moved to New York City in 1956 to work for magazines and began photographing two years later on a trip to the Soviet Union

a modest collection of 51 plates

and Tom Wolfe

he created a meticulous accounting of the binding structures

this fresh

but don't let these rule-breaking silent letters defeat you

held in equal esteem with works that entered the collection as acknowledged masterpieces

‘Topiary on a Gargantuan Scale: The Clipped “Yew-trees” at Four Ancient London Churchyards’ and ‘The Burrowing Duke at Harcourt House’

August Sander

her acerbic wit

and photographs—is celebrating its three hundredth anniversary with a rare exhibition

Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts