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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
An Adaptation for Children of Tom Jones
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

An Adaptation for Children of Tom Jones

author (Somerset, 1707 - 1754)
printer (active 19th century, Hartford)
Date1806
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions9.7 x 6.4 x 0.2 cm (3 13/16 x 2 1/2 x 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.1.32
eMuseum ID723925
EmbARK ObjectID18157
TMS Source ID6209
Last Updated8/9/24
Description31, [1] p. : ill. ; 11 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.
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. 44.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink (on title page, bottom): Sanford Stanley's/Book, A Present from his/ Mother B [?] Stanley  
Inscribed in ink (on page 31, bottom): Sanford/Stanley

 

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)