Video Fridays: Conserving French Bookbindings at the Morgan Library
Courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum
Various bindings on exhibition in Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection at the Morgan Library.
As readers of FB&C know, the Morgan Library is currently hosting a gorgeous exhibition of fine bindings, Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection, through September 26. Curator John T. McQuillen wrote this essay about his experience with the collection for our summer issue.
The Morgan Library also posted a short video from the point of view of the library conservators working with this collection. Check it out here:
![Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–253) Homilia in Genesim, Homiliae in Exodum, in Latin, translation by Rufinus, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria, Lambach Abbey? c. 1150–1175]. Estimate: $150,000-$200,000.](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card/public/media-images/2026-06/origen.jpeg?itok=0V_4_Lt2)
