Object details
Accession number
10.b.1.29
Creators
Full title
The Hermit of the Forest, and the Wandering Infants : A Rural Fragment
Creation Date
1808
Language
English
Publication Place
Litchfield, Connecticut
Binding Description
brown paper with green clover decorations
Description
30, [2] p.: ill.
Provenance
Collection of Gerald Ephraim Hart (1849-1936), Montreal, by 1890.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from auctioneers Charles F. Libbie and Co., Boston, for $14 on 16 April 1890, lot 588. (with six other chapbooks (10.b.1.27-33)
Marks
Inscribed in black ink (on frontispiece): 2d/ Sidney Stanley 1817Inscribed in black ink: Eliza D Bump Inscribed in pencil: 588/7Inscribed in black ink (on title page): Sanford Stanley's/Book (crossed out)
Dimensions
9.8 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Printed ink on paper
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Susan Sinclair and Philip B. Eppard. Catalogue of Children’s Books from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection and the Personal Libraries of John Lowell and Isabella Stewart Gardner (Boston, 1988), p. 44.
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