The most viewed and one of the prized additions in the Huntington Library is the Gutenberg Bible in top photo. It is one of only eleven that remain of the bibles printed on vellum. If you look in the upper right corner of the photo of the bible you will see some of the enormous rows of shelving encircling the interior of the library holding many of the rare books and manuscripts collected by Mr. Huntington. Next to the Library of Congress, the Huntington Library remains the second most used library in the United States.
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For qualified scholars. the Huntington Library is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States in its field of specialization. For the general public the library has some of the finest rare books and manuscripts of Anglo-American civilization. Altogether there are about four million items. Among the treasures for research and exhibition are the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a Gutenberg Bible on vellum, the double-elephant folio edition of Audobon's Birds of America and an unsurpassed collection of the early editions of Shakespear's works.
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