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.1.4

eMuseum ID719303

EmbARK ObjectID18121

TMS Source ID6185

Last Updated8/9/24

DescriptionVol. 2: port.; 15 cm.

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.

BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 36.

MarksNotesInscribed in black ink (on title page): I.S. Gardner
Enclosed: Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), 30 December 1906 (ARC.000086)
Enclosed: Description of Oliver Wendell Holmes's Work The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 20th century (ARC.007840)

ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 7 September 1885.