Object details
Object number
m.2.6
Creator(s)
Title
The Child's Book of the Century: Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes: Nearly 150 Rhymes, Over 150 Pictures
Date
1900
Medium
Printed ink on green printed paper
Language
English
Publication Place
New York
Binding Description
Hardback-bound red and gold paper binding with blue and yellow bookjacket
Description
157, [3] p. incl. front., illus. 23 cm.
Dimensions
24 x 18.5 x 2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 x 13/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed in black ink (front flyleaf): Isabella Stewart Gardner / Christmas M.D.C.C.C.C. / ex dona A.C. Coolidge.
Provenance
Gift from the American historian Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 25 December 1900.
Commentary
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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. 30, no. 37.
Gallery
Macknight Room
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