Object details

Object number

10.a.3.33

Creator(s)

• Thomas Carlyle (Ecclefechan, Scotland, 1795 - 1881, London) - author
• Houghton, Mifflin And Company (active Boston and New York, 1880 - 2007) - publisher
• Riverside Press (active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1852 - 1971) - printer
• Charles Townsend Copeland (Calais, Maine, 1860 - 1952, Waverly, Masachusetts) - editor

Title

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his youngest sister / edited with an introductory essay by Charles Townsend Copeland

Date

1899

Medium

Printed ink on paper with an engraving and photogravure prints

Language

English

Publication Place

Boston

Binding Description

green cloth; gilt stamped lettering; gilt stamped lettering on spine

Description

viii, 276 p. front., plates, ports., fold. facsim. 20 cm. (HathiTrust rec. #001023401)

Dimensions

20.2 x 13.3 x 3.2 cm (7 15/16 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Inscribed in pencil (on front end page) in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand: I.S. Gardner / from C.T. Copeland / 1919
Inscribed in pencil (on flyleaf): 16 Jul. / 1919
Inscribed in pencil (on page 1): for Mrs. Gardner / with admiration and / regard / from C.T. Copeland 
Illustrated with an engraving by H.W. Smith and photogravure prints by unknown illustrators and photographers.

Enclosed: Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Townsend Copeland (1860-1952), 23 September 1922 (ARC.003931) 
Enclosed: Albumen print of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), about 1870 (ARC.007412)  

Provenance

Gift from Charles Townsend Copeland (1860-1952) to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1919.

Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

Gallery

Blue Room

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