Recollections of Auton House. A book for children. With illustrations

by C. Auton i.e. Augustus Hoppin by Augustus Hoppin

$50 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. First edition, square 8vo, pp. 99, 1 ; numerous illustrations throughout by Hoppin; original cloth-backed pictorial boards; corners bumped, front hinge starting; all else very good. The youngest of twelve children, Augustus Hoppin recounts the thinly fictionalized joys and sorrows of growning up during the early parts of the 19th century in a stately mansion in Providence. Item #56186

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