Songs of Innocence and Experience

author William Blake (London, 1757 - 1827, London)

publisher Basil Montagu Pickering (active London, 1858 - 1878)

Date1866

Place MadeEngland, Europe

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions18 x 11.5 x 1.5 cm (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 x 9/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number8.a.2.21

eMuseum ID720949

EmbARK ObjectID20932

TMS Source ID7475

Last Updated8/9/24

Descriptionxii, 108 p. ; 18 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. 43.

MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (inside front cover, top left): 457/cff
Inscribed in pencil (inside front cover, center right): 107
Inscribed in black ink (inside front cover, center): Isabella S. Gardner / from / Theodore F. Dwight. / October 1891 / Brookline -

ProvenanceNotesGift from the American librarian and autograph collector Theodore F. Dwight (1846-1917) to Isabella Stewart Gardner in October 1891.