Tom Bailey's Adventures and Being a Boy
author
Charles Dudley Warner
(Plainfield, Massachusetts, 1829 - 1900, Hartford, Connecticut)
author
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836 - 1907, Boston)
publisher
John Ross Robertson
(Toronto, 1841 - 1918, Toronto)
Date1878
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions24.1 x 16.5 x 0.6 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.a.1.27
eMuseum ID721436
EmbARK ObjectID17783
TMS Source ID6000
Last Updated8/9/24
Description107 p. ; 22 cm.Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis autobiographical novel (1869) by a close friend of Mrs. Gardner had a considerable reputation. The tale of a mischievous hero precedes the antics of Tom and Huck and was one of the first in the "bad boy" genre of books for boys. Book piracy was a booming business in the years before the international copyright agreement (1891). This cheap Canadian edition turns Aldrich's title, The Story of a Bad Boy, into a subtitle, perhaps hoping to disguise the piracy. It was published with Charles Dudley Warner's Being a Boy.
Source: 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. 37, no. 53.
Source: 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. 37, no. 53.
BibliographyNotesSusan 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. 37, no. 53.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1878.
