Object details
Object number
8.a.2.32
Creator(s)
Title
Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
Date
1882
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
London
Binding Description
Blue textile binding with gilded lettering on spine and gilded decoration on front cover
Description
xxxvii, 375 pages ; 16 cm.
Dimensions
16.5 x 11 x 3 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in black ink in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand (front flyleaf reverse and facing page): Excerpts from 'In Memory of Walter Savage Landor' by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Inscribed in black ink in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand (page facing front flyleaf reverse): Walter Savage Landor / died Sept. 17. 1864
Inscribed in pencil (page facing front flyleaf reverse): F.M.C. . I.S.G. / Oct 13th 1882
Signed in black ink (title page, top): I.S. Gardner.
Provenance
Gift to Isabella Stewart Gardner from the American novelist F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) on 13 October 1882.
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
Long Gallery
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