Horn Book
author
Unknown
Date1727-1760
Place MadeEngland, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper with embossed leather binding
Dimensions8.89 x 6.03 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.b.3.2
eMuseum ID722325
EmbARK ObjectID20893
TMS Source ID7441
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryA horn book was a reading primer. An alphabet was the main feature but might also include a syllabary, the Lord's Prayer, and numbers. In order to protect the lettering, a thin sheet of translucent horn was fixed over the paper.
BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court. (Boston, 1922), p.76.
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. 13, no. 6, ill.
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. 13, no. 6, ill.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from booksellers J.Pearson & Co., London for £22 10s on 12 September 1901.
