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(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Works of Hesiod
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Works of Hesiod

author (750 BCE - 650 BCE)
publisher (active Paris, 1782 - 1807)
printer (active Paris, 1765 - about 1799)
printer (active Paris, 1758 - 1803)
printer (Paris, 1763 - 1805)
translator (1726 - 1807)
Date1785
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.b.3.4
eMuseum ID722286
EmbARK ObjectID20895
TMS Source ID7443
Last Updated8/9/24
Descriptionviii, 303 [i.e. 305], [1] p. ; 8°

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 Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court. (Boston, 1922), p. 69

ProvenanceNotesCollection of Louis-Jospeh, le Dauphin de France (1781-1789), brother of Louis XVI.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from booksellers J.Pearson & Co., London for £45 on 18 November 1901.