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Creators: New York Public Library
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781250623775
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 352 pages
On Sale Date: 2/2/2021
Dimensions: 11 in H | 9.8 in W | 1.6 in T | 5 lb Wt
A lavishly illustrated book to accompany the New York Public Library's exhibition of the priceless treasures in its archives
Inside the walls of its three research library buildings, The New York Public Library is a palace of wonders containing diverse collections of 55 million objects including rare books, maps, paintings, prints, sculpture, photographs, films, recorded sound, furniture, ephemera, rare and important historical documents, and more. In Fall 2020, in honor of the NYPLs 125th anniversary, the library will open its first ever permanent exhibition in the exquisite Gottesman Hall on the first floor of its iconic 42nd Street Building: The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Librarys Treasures.
Treasures, the official book to accompany the exhibition, is a sumptuous four-color volume that showcases the depth and breadth of the librarys holdings. Filled with the creations of history-makers and influencers who changed the world, Treasures includes the Declaration of Independence written in Thomas Jeffersons hand; the original Bill of Rights; Charles Dickenss desk; George Washingtons handwritten farewell address; manuscript material from authors such as Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, and many others; a Gutenberg Bible; Malcolm Xs briefcase; the original Winnie-The-Pooh dolls; a letter from Christopher Columbus to King Ferdinand, and a Sumerian cuneiform tablet ca. 2300 BC. Treasures is The New York Public Librarys gift to the world.
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