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Dorothy Q: Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American, 1809–1894)
Illustrated by: Howard Pyle (American, 1853–1911)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (American, founded in 1880)
Printer: Riverside Press (American, founded in 1852)
Binding by: Sarah Wyman Whitman (American, 1842–1904)
Illustrated by: Howard Pyle (American, 1853–1911)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (American, founded in 1880)
Printer: Riverside Press (American, founded in 1852)
Binding by: Sarah Wyman Whitman (American, 1842–1904)
1893
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with photolithographs and halftones
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 20 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Lloyd and Vivian Hawes Collection
Accession Number2000.749
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893
Description(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893) 20 cm; 131 pp.; original publisher's silver-stamped gray cloth.
First edition, first issue, with misprint "flashed" in line 8 on page 50, later changed to "clashed." The unsigned binding is given to Whitman by the website "Publisher's Bindings Online," directed by the University of Alabama.
First edition, first issue, with misprint "flashed" in line 8 on page 50, later changed to "clashed." The unsigned binding is given to Whitman by the website "Publisher's Bindings Online," directed by the University of Alabama.
ProvenanceSarah Orne Jewett Homestead, South Berwick, Maine; Theodore Jewett Eastman (died 1931; inscribed pen and black ink on preliminary leaf "Theo. Jewett Eastman / From Aunt Helen, Dec '92"; bequeathed by him to Harvard College Library; deposited by it in the Jewett Homestead, 1933; possibly J & J Hanrahan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire [his calling card found in the volume]; Lloyd and Vivian Hawes, Wellesley, MA; her bequest to MFA, June 21, 2000.