On February 9, 2016, I visited John McQuillen of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library. When I left NYPL, Kyle told me to tell the Morgan that Lenox brought the first Gutenberg to the New World. Upon receiving the news, John shrugged his shoulders and said simply: we have three. Below is the ex-libris or bookplate on…
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Returning to NYPL, this time to addend!
On February 5, 2016, I donated Addendum, Edition 36 to the New York Public Library. But two years before (February 12, 2014), in preparation for crafting what was to become my Addendum, I visited Kyle Triplett of NYPL Rare Books Division to research the dimensions, text block, ink, and paper of the NYPL’s Gutenberg Bible. Frankly, I was amazed I…