Oak Knoll

Discusses the life of Baltimorean John Garrett, career-diplomat and avid book collector, who bequeathed his magnificent home and library to Johns Hopkins University. A general description of the collection, which includes many important early works, incunables, and rare Americana, follows. Illustrated with many period photographs. Covers age-darkened at edges. Bookplate of Sol Hess on front pastedown. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.