This catalogue from an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1999, presents the first public exhibition and scholarly appraisal of the Wormsley Library, one of the great achievements of modern book collecting. A fine copy.

Sir Paul Getty's selection of 106 specimens from the library, described and illustrated here, gives only a small taste of the whole collection, whose theme is the art of the book. Illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, examples of the first five hundred years of fine printing, high achievements of Victorian design, modern calligraphic manuscripts, and splendid examples of European bookbinding are all represented.