Object details

Accession number

m.2.6

Creators

• Isaac Taylor Headland (Freedom, Pennsylvania, 1859 - 1942, Alliance, Ohio) - illustrator
• Fleming H. Revell Company (established Grand Rapids, 1870) - publisher

Full title

The Child's Book of the Century: Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes: Nearly 150 Rhymes, Over 150 Pictures

Creation Date

1900

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.

Provenance

Gift from the American historian Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 25 December 1900.

Marks

Signed in black ink (front flyleaf): Isabella Stewart Gardner / Christmas M.D.C.C.C.C. / ex dona A.C. Coolidge. 

Dimensions

24 x 18.5 x 2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 x 13/16 in.)

Display Media

Printed ink on green printed paper

Web Commentary

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Permanent Gallery Location

Macknight 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. 30, no. 37.

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