Director's Choice and Inside the Morgan Series Gift Set of 4 Books

Usually $19.95 each, this gift set including Director's Choice and all three volumes of The Morgan Library & Museum's Inside the Morgan series is a savings of 15%! Buy your set today for your personal collection or to share with your dearest bibliophile friends and family.

By 1900 the renowned banker and philanthropist John Pierpont Morgan began to envision building a repository to house his collections and serve as a private retreat. He commissioned the illustrious architect Charles McKim of McKim, Mead, and White to con- struct an elegant marble villa next to his home on 36th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in New York City. Morgan was deeply engaged in the design of the building and the decoration of its interiors, which paid homage to the great Roman villas of the Italian Renaissance. Once the building was completed in 1906, Morgan effectively retired from Wall Street and began spending the majority of his time in his richly appointed library, continuing to embellish it with exceptional works of art. Today, Morgan’s library is the historic core of the Morgan Library & Museum. One of the best preserved Gilded Age interiors in New York, it offers visitors a chance to enter the private enclave of this legendary collector.

The Morgan Library & Museum: Director's Choice is  the latest addition to Scala’s popular Director’s Choice series. Here, Director Colin B. Bailey introduces the reader to a sampling of the treasured works in The Morgan Library & Museum’s outstanding collection.

Inside the Morgan: Pierpont Morgan’s Study takes us into Morgan’s personal office, exploring the creation and contents of this celebrated room, lavishly adorned with select treasures from his distinguished holdings of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts.

Inside the Morgan: The Librarian's Office takes us into the private offices of Belle Greene, Pierpont Morgan's illustrious librarian, and explores the creation and decoration of her behind-the-scenes realm, now displaying select treasures from Morgan's holdings of ancient Near Eastern seals and tablets, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian sculpture, and early medieval jewelry.

Inside the Morgan: The Rotunda and East Room takes us into the principal spaces for visitors to Morgan’s haven, exploring the colorful, marble-clad Rotunda and the soaring, book-lined East Room, where he preserved and displayed his treasures.