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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Tanglewood Tales
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Tanglewood Tales

author (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 - 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire)
publisher (active Boston, 1845 - 1854)
Date1853
Place MadeMassachusetts, United States, North America
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions19.8 x 11.7 x 3.2 cm (7 13/16 x 4 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.2.14
eMuseum ID729102
EmbARK ObjectID19157
TMS Source ID6616
Last Updated8/9/24
Description336 p. : plates ; 17 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. 33. (first edition)
Susan 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. 25, no. 28.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the book dealer, Charles F. Libbie & Co., Boston on 29 April 1886 for $11.
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