Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

translator Isaac Taylor Headland (Freedom, Pennsylvania, 1859 - 1942, Alliance, Ohio)

publisher Fleming H. Revell Company (founded 1870)

illustrator Isaac Taylor Headland (Freedom, Pennsylvania, 1859 - 1942, Alliance, Ohio)

Date1900

MediumPrinted ink on green printed paper

Dimensions24 x 18.5 x 2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 x 13/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberm.2.6

eMuseum ID717869

Previous Numberm.2

EmbARK ObjectID20676

TMS Source ID7286

Last Updated8/9/24

Description157, [3] p. incl. front., illus. 23 cm.

Status

Not on view

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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. 30, no. 37.

MarksNotesSigned in black ink (front flyleaf): Isabella Stewart Gardner / Christmas M.D.C.C.C.C. / ex dona A.C. Coolidge.

ProvenanceNotesGift from the American historian Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 25 December 1900.