New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-22
THE LENOX LIBRARY OPEN.
ooKs THAT MAY BE SEEN UNDER GLASS.
CATALoGUING STILL GOING oN-soME OF THE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TICKETS.

CATALoGUING STILL GOING oN-sOME OF THE
TREAsUREs-ADMISsION TICKETS.
The Lenox Library, which has been closed since
June, was opened last Thursday for the wlnter.
The paintings and sculptures may be viewed on
Tuesdays, Fridays aud Saturdays between ii a.
n and p. M, providing the visitor has previously
written to George IL Moore, the superintendent. at
No. 1901 Fifth-avo., for O ticket, TR!B-
UNE reporter called at the library re-
Gently to inquire if there were any new
attractions or privileges for the public the books
the library having never been Of any use TO visitors
DR.. Austin AlbOne, the author OF "A uibone,s Die,
tonary of Authors" who is the librarian explained
TO the reporter az he vauted the gates TO the
alcoves or quickly unlocked and shut them, that
books could not be by visitors until they were
catalOgued, and he could not tell how many years
that would take.
There are so many rare books in the library"
said he, for instance old editions OF Shakespeare
Bunyan. Milton and the Bible. works OF
travel history, etc, that to make q
thorough catalogue and description OF them
takes much time and pains. am engaged
in this work all The time but am frequently inter
rupted by visitors. Here catalogue OF One-hun-
dred pages old editions of Shakespeare that lhaye
lately finished. IL Is so minute In description, ana
it gives the history, sales and prices of the various
editions and where they may DO found 50 tully as
collectors who wish to satisfy themselves OF the
commences of old editions of Shakespeare. NOW
there are many books here that the public can never
be allowed 10 nduuIe ~ I1cy are 700 plcClouN anu
one generation would so thumb them and mutlate
them and tear them up that the next generation
would have little chance to see them even"
Among the precious volumes that may be viewed
through the glass showcases 10 the MazGrin" Hbie
printed by Gutenberg in l450|55 and rth
$4,000, it being the first book p,nted
with movable type. There is also q Bible
printed from blocks in l445 and the hrSt
EDITION of the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer;" The
dedication copy to the Duchess of Richmond and
SaxOny of Captain John smiths " History OF Elr-
gna' is another curious book with a beautiful
frontispiece engraving copy Of the Bay Psalm
Book" the first volume printed IN
America, is rare. There are also copies of
Christopher ColumbuS's first letter about
America, printed in Rome in 1853. and an
old map Of Africa, dated 1920 showing number
Of flakes rs the sources of the Nile The history OF
the first expedition TO Virginia under Raleigh.
Eliots Indian Bible and the hrst folio edition OF
Shakespeare, printed in 1922, are a few OF many
other rare books.
Among TIE noted paintings I'm the gallery are
Nunkacszys Milton Debating Paradise Lost to
his Daughters" +. +. Churchs "CotOpaxi" Bier
stadt's Valley of the Yosemite" Turner's
STRANDED Ship Of War;" Thomas Coles Expnl.
sion from Paradise" Turner's "The Old r6meraI6,"
Rembrandt Peale's Portrait OF Washington" and
paint ugs by Edwin Landscer, Gilbert stuart, John
Trumbell G. X. Leslie, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Cop
lev, Huntington aud others. There are among the
sculptures works of Powers, Crawford, Thomas
Ball and others,