Object details
Object number
10.b.1.29
Creator(s)
Title
The Hermit of the Forest, and the Wandering Infants : A Rural Fragment
Date
1808
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
Litchfield, Connecticut
Binding Description
brown paper with green clover decorations
Description
30, [2] p.: ill.
Dimensions
9.8 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in black ink (on frontispiece): 2d/ Sidney Stanley 1817
Inscribed in black ink: Eliza D Bump
Inscribed in pencil: 588/7
Inscribed in black ink (on title page): Sanford Stanley's/Book (crossed out)
Provenance
Collection of Gerald Ephraim Hart (1849-1936), Montreal, by 1890.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from auctioneers Charles F. Libbie and Co., Boston, for $14 on 16 April 1890, lot 588. (with six other chapbooks (10.b.1.27-33)
Commentary
Isabella 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.
Bibliography
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. 44.
Gallery
Blue Room
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