[Hoppin, Augustus.]

Recollections of Auton House. A book for children. With illustrations by C. Auton [i.e. Augustus Hoppin]

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

Price: $50.00