Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
author
Lewis Carroll
(Daresbury, England, 1832 - 1898, Guildford, England)
illustrator
John Tenniel
(London, 1820 - 1914, London)
translator
Henri Bué
(1843 - 1929)
Date1869
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberv.2.b.3.10
eMuseum ID720095
EmbARK ObjectID25871
TMS Source ID9767
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 vol., [16] 196 p., illus., 12°Status
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Isabella Stewart Gardner owned many childrens’ books—a collection that dated back to her own childhood as well as later acquisitions. This French translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland could have been a book that Isabella shared with her young nephews, who she and her husband Jack adopted in 1875 after the death of their father.
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. 23, no. 24.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
