Wyndham Towers

author Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836 - 1907, Boston)

publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company (active Boston and New York, 1880 - 2007)

printer Riverside Press (active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1852 - 1971)

designer Sarah Wyman Whitman (Lowell, 1842 - 1904, Boston)

Date1889

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions20.3 x 14 x 1.3 cm (8 x 5 1/2 x 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.a.1.30

eMuseum ID721379

EmbARK ObjectID17785

TMS Source ID6002

Last Updated8/9/24

Description80 p. ; 21 cm. (HathiTrust rec. #006634048)

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella 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.

MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (on front end paper): 125
Inscribed in black ink (on front end paper): Mrs. John L. Gardner / With the kindful regads of / T.B. Aldrich / Dec 15th 1889.
Inscribed in black ink (on half title page) in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand: Isabella S. Gardner / 1889
Enclosed: Clipping with photograph of the Thomas Bailey Aldrich Home at 59 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston (ARC.007828)

ProvenanceNotesGift from author Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 15 December 1889.