The Poetical Works
author
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1809 - 1894, Boston)
publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
(active Boston and New York, 1880 - 2007)
printer
Riverside Press
(active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1852 - 1971)
Date1884
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions14.6 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 1 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.1.3
eMuseum ID719330
EmbARK ObjectID18120
TMS Source ID6184
Last Updated8/9/24
DescriptionVol. 1: port.; 15 cm.Status
Not on viewWeb 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.
BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 36.
MarksNotesPoem inscribed in black ink (on front end page) in Oliver Wendell Holmes' hand
Poem inscribed in black ink (on flyleaf) in Oliver Wendell Holmes' hand
Inscribed in black ink (on title page) in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand: I.S. Gardner
Illustrated with a lithograph by J.A.J. Wilcox, South Boston.
Poem inscribed in black ink (on flyleaf) in Oliver Wendell Holmes' hand
Inscribed in black ink (on title page) in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand: I.S. Gardner
Illustrated with a lithograph by J.A.J. Wilcox, South Boston.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 7 September 1885.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
16 September 1884
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