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Answers in 3,000 Languages. What draws this traffic is the library's unique openhandedness with 80 miles of bookshelves that bear witness to 50 centuries of human wisdom and folly-some 28 million items, from Babylonian clay tablets, a Gutenberg Bible and 3,000 cookbooks to five Shakespeare First Folios and Washington's hand-written Farewell Address (3,000,000 more books are in the library's 81 branches). Unlike many of the world's other great libraries, which believe in the closed-door policy, the New York Public Library delivers books to anyone...
...acquisition that did much to justify Randall's enthusiasm: the extensive book and manuscript collection of Chicago Printer George Poole. Prize of the Poole library is a Gutenberg Bible that, at the time of the sale, was one of three still in private hands. Randall knew the book well; he was the dealer who sold it to Bibliophile Poole six years ago. When he heard that the collection was to be sold, Randall hurriedly took an option, needed only 15 minutes to persuade President Wells to put up the money (the university will not say how much...
Important as Test Tubes. Waving happily toward the $1,500,000 Lilly Rare Book Library now being built at Indiana, Randall says: "Imagine putting up a building like that and not having a Gutenberg Bible to stick in it." But the spacious new library will be more than a shrine for ancient bits of paper and vellum. Thus far, Indiana's rare books have been useless to all but the few high-ranking scholars who could be allowed access to them. Best feature of the new library: professors, graduate students and undergraduates will be able to use everything...
Turtle Afloat. Koreans proudly point back to the days when the country was the base from which Buddhism was launched in Japan, and a prime influence on Japan's ceramic art. Not only did Koreans print with movable type 50 years before Gutenberg, and launch an ironclad ship (in the form of a turtle) that devastated the Japanese fleet in 1592, but over the centuries they have made a rich contribution to the art of the Orient...
...manuscripts, not quite art for art's sake or literature for literature's sake, seem to epitomize the joy of collecting. A Gutenberg Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled about the country with the drawings and illuminations in this magnificent and unconventional exhibition which circulate, to a wider audience, J.P. Morgan's gift to the public...