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The cover of a book titled "THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: From Jefferson's Vision to the Digital Age." The top half of the cover features a photograph of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress at sunrise. The building is a grand, classical-style structure with columns and a dome.

‘The Library of Congress’

Product #21108165
Price: $32.95

Author Jane Aikin weaves a narrative of the individuals, events and controversies that have shaped the history of this venerable institution.
A silver necklace with a pendant shaped like a treble clef. The body of the treble clef is engraved with script that reads, "If music be the food of love, play on."

Shakespeare necklace

Product #21509161
Price: $75

A classic line from Shakespeare — “If music be the food of love, play on” — is engraved on this 18-inch, sterling silver necklace shaped like a treble clef.
Book cover titled The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in the Age of Revolution, edited by Susan Reyburn and Zach Klitzman, showing portraits of King George III and George Washington.

‘The Two Georges’

Price: $49.95 (hardcover),
$24.95 (paperback)

This companion volume to the Library exhibit compares the lives of George Washington and King George III. Available in paperback (product #21111120) and hardcover (#21111121).
A pewter-colored pin in the shape of a cat lying on a stack of four books. The cat is stretched out on its stomach, with its head and front paws over the left side of the top book, and its tail and hind paws hanging over the right side of the books. The books have visible bindings with horizontal lines.

Gorey cat pin

Product #21509694
Price: $70

This sterling silver pin is adapted from an unpublished drawing by Edward Gorey. Engraved on the back with “Books. Cats. Life is sweet.”
A light gray t-shirt with black text on the front. The text is arranged in a slight arch and reads "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS," with "EST. 1800" directly below it, and "WASHINGTON, DC" below that.

Athletic T-shirt

Price: $25
 

Who said athletes don’t like to read? Show your devotion to libraries and reading with this collegiate Library of Congress T-shirt. Sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL.
Two bronze-colored busts of William Shakespeare, showing his head and shoulders. He has curly, shoulder-length hair and a small beard and mustache. He is wearing a high-collared shirt with a ruffled front tied with a bow. The two busts are identical.

Shakespeare bookends

Product #21501024
Price: $50

Set off your shelf with these resin bookends — a paean to the Bard.
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