Object details
Object number
v.4.1.6
Creator(s)
Title
Forty Years of Diplomacy : Volume II
Date
1922
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
London
Binding Description
blue cloth; blue dyed top edge
Description
2 v., 23 cm. (HathiTrust rec. #001605982)
Dimensions
22.9 x 14.6 x 3.8 cm (9 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (on front end paper) in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand: I.S. Gardner / Nov. 9, 1922
Printed on a self-adhesive paper label (on front end paper, lower left): The Old Corner Book / Store, Inc. / Boston, Mass.
Inscribed in pencil (on half-title, lower left): 550
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Old Corner Bookstore, Boston on 9 December 1922.
Commentary
Russian diplomat Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen and his wife Elizabeth were friends of Isabella's. The Bolshevik Revolution forced the Rosens to flee Russia in 1917. Never one to sit idly by, Isabella raised funds to help them build a new life in a new country. They eventually settled in New York. The Baron wrote a series of articles documenting his career in foreign diplomacy for "The Saturday Evening Post." This series was published in 1922 as a two-volume book titled "Forty Years of Diplomacy," which Isabella purchased for her library that same year.
Bibliography
Kathleen King, "From Russia with Love: A Gift of Easter Eggs," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 March 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/russia-love-gift-easter-eggs
Gallery
Vatichino
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