Object details
Object number
10.b.1.31
Creator(s)
- Attributed to
Hannah More
(Fishponds, 1745 - 1833, Bristol)
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author
- Attributed to
Isaiah Thomas
(Boston, 1749 - 1831)
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printer
Title
Moses in the Bulrushes: A Sacred Drama
Date
1802
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
Worcester, Massachusetts
Binding Description
green paper with green leaf decoration
Description
31 p.
Dimensions
10.8 x 7 x 0.3 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 1/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in ink (on cover): Elias Nason/1863
Inscribed in ink (on frontispiece): Sarah W Rork
Inscribed in ink (on title page): E. Nason
Provenance
Collection of Gerald Ephraim Hart (1849-1936), Montreal, by 1890.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from auctioneers Charles F. Libbie and Co., Boston, for $14 on 16 April 1890, lot 588. (with six other chapbooks, 10.b.1.27-33)
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.
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), pp. 14-15, no. 7d, ill.
Gallery
Blue Room
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