New Arabian nights
author
Robert Louis Stevenson
(Edinburgh, Scotland, 1850 - 1894, Valima, Samoa)
publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
(active New York, 1878 - 1984)
Date1887
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberv.2.a.6.15
eMuseum ID730605
EmbARK ObjectID25699
TMS Source ID9595
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 vol., x 329 p., illus., 12°; 20 cmStatus
Not on viewWeb 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. 48.
MarksNotesInscribed: signature of Theodore F. Dwight
ProvenanceNotesGift from Theodore F. Dwight (1846-1917), chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library at the United States Department of State, to Isabella Stewart Gardner at an unknown date.