Object details
Object number
10.b.1.32
Creator(s)
Title
An Adaptation for Children of The Remarkable History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Date
1806
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
Hartford
Binding Description
green paper
Description
31, [1] p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Dimensions
9.7 x 6.4 x 0.2 cm (3 13/16 x 2 1/2 x 1/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in ink (on title page, bottom): Sanford Stanley's/Book, A Present from his/ Mother B [?] Stanley
Inscribed in ink (on page 31, bottom): Sanford/Stanley
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)
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.
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.
Gallery
Blue Room
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