"Guide to the Loan Exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection". Introduction by Edward Robinson, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, First Edition, First Printing with MCMXIV on bottom of the title page and "February 1914" on the copyright page; illustrated with c. 100 photo plates.

"Of this guide 10,000 additional copies were printed in February, MCMXIV and Sixty Copies on Special Paper."

Soft cover [condition: see photos, the paper covering of spine is almost gone]; 5.1/2" X 8"; xvi + 159 + c.100 photo plates on glossy paper, soiling, wear, the last 30 pages have an upper blank margin damage increasing to the last 10 pages [see photo]; all pages and plates are complete, no text nor picture damages, fair+/ good condition.

Based in London and New York, the Morgan family worked for about thirty years and transferred capital from Europe to the emerging American economy. They concentrated primarily on the railroad industry. After the death of his father John Pierpont organized extensive industrial operations with American capital. He was one of the richest and most powerful men of his time, but also a passionate philanthropist and a voracious art collector. He also played a supportive and influential role at the Met, first as a trustee (1888-1904) and later as its president (1904-1913). Under his leadership the Museum launched an ambitious acquisition program. During the last two decades of his life Morgan spent about two-thirds of his estate (some $900 million today), on art. In following the motto "No price is too high for an object of unquestioned beauty and known authenticity," he acquired artworks numbering in the thousands, in a wide range of media, and built a massive and encyclopedic art collection that included ancient cultures, Gothic, Renaissance, Islamic art and Rococo. He was also attracted by manuscripts and printed books. These never left his library, which since 1924 has formed the basis of The Morgan Library. At his death, his son J.P. Morgan Jr. donated large parts of the collection aside from the materials in the library to the Met.

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