Object details

Object number

10.b.1.44

Creator(s)

• Grigg, Elliot And Co. (active Philadelphia, 1792-1849) - publisher
• Daniel Defoe (London, 1660 - 1731, London) - author
• L. Johnson And Co. (active Philadelphia, 1820-1892) - printer

Title

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Date

1849

Medium

Printed ink on paper

Language

English

Publication Place

Philadelphia

Binding Description

brown cloth; gilt stamped human figure; stamped vine decoration; gilt stamped lettering and vine decoration on spine

Dimensions

15.9 x 10.2 x 2.4 cm (6 1/4 x 4 x 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.

Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner was a voracious reader, and books were the first objects that she collected. About 120 of the 2700 books she acquired for her museum can be considered children's books.
In a poll taken in 1888, this desert-island romance (1719) was rated the favorite book of boys.

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, 1998), p. 12, no. 3.

Gallery

Blue Room

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