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What was once the private library of American financier Pierpont Morgan, The Morgan Library and Museum opened to the public in 1924, three years after his death. JP Morgan created one of the largest personal libraries in history, with over 350,000 volumes. Morgan collected first editions of dozens of authors from Byron, Dickens, and Poe to Twain, Melville, and Morris to Plath, Stein, and Williams. Included in the collection are three copies of the famous Gutenberg Bible. Morgan also collected over one thousand volumes that document the development of bookbinding, one of the largest collections in the Western Hemisphere. Morgan’s collection also includes paintings, drawings, prints, and manuscripts.