Object details
Object number
9.c.2.17
Creator(s)
Title
Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
Date
1821
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
London
Binding Description
Dark blue leather binding with gilded decoration on front and back covers, gilded lettering on spine
Description
1 v., xii, books-lines numbered not pages, 16°
Dimensions
17 x 10.2 x 3 cm (6 11/16 x 4 1/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (front flyleaf reverse, top): Re = original fore-edge / painting
Signed in black ink (front flyleaf reverse, center): J. R. Crawford / to / his daughter / July 1880
Inscribed in pencil (front flyleaf reverse, bottom): St Gile's Cripplegate / the [?]
Provenance
In the collection of the daughter of J.R. Crawford after July 1880.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the bookseller and importer Charles E. Lauriat Company, Boston for $65 on 1 August 1922.
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
Macknight Room
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