The Affecting History of Children in the Wood
author
Unknown
printer
J.A. Babcock
(active Hartford, 18th century)
Date1796
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions10.5 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (4 1/8 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.1.27
eMuseum ID724277
EmbARK ObjectID18151
TMS Source ID6205
Last Updated8/14/24
Description30, [2] p. : ill.; 11 cm. (32mo)Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryAlternatively titled The Babes in the Wood, this is a morbid tale of orphaned children abandoned in the woods by a wicked uncle who claims their inheritance.
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a voracious reader, and books were the first objects that she collected. Of the 2700 books she acquired for her museum, about 120 can be considered children's books.
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a voracious reader, and books were the first objects that she collected. Of the 2700 books she acquired for her museum, about 120 can be considered children's books.
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), pp. 14-15, no. 7a, ill.
Diana Seave Greenwald, “Isabella's Children's Books: From the Babes in the Wood to Doctor Dolittle” Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 16 August 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-childrens-books-babes-wood-doctor-dolittle
Diana Seave Greenwald, “Isabella's Children's Books: From the Babes in the Wood to Doctor Dolittle” Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 16 August 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-childrens-books-babes-wood-doctor-dolittle
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (on title page): 106
ProvenanceNotes
Collection of Gerald Ephraim Hart (1849-1936), Montreal, by 1890.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from auctioneers Charles F. Libbie and Co., Boston, for $14 on 16 April 1890, lot 588. (with six other chapbooks (10.b.1.27-33)
