The Story of My Life [Two Volume Set]

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large 8vo. Volume I. xv, 613 pp, b&w frontis, preface, list of b&w illustrations, Antecedents; Childhood; Boyhood; Lyncombe; Southgate; Oxford Life; Foreign Life; Work in Southern Counties. Volume II. x, 581 pp, b&w frontis, list of b&w illustrations, Work in Northern Countires; Home Life with the Mother; English Pleasures and Roman Trials; Last Years of Esmeralda; The Roman Catholic Conspiracy; Last Years with the Mother; index to Vols. I. and II. First Edition, 1896. "Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was an English writer and raconteur. His autobiography The Story of My Life details both a devotion to his adopted mother, Maria, and an intense unhappiness with his home education at Buckwell Place. Hare was the author of a large number of books, which fall into two classes: biographies of members and connections of his family, and descriptive and historical accounts of various countries and cities. He also compiled numerous travel books, including a couple for John Murray, as well as many others under his own name, such as Walks in Rome, Walks in London, Wanderings in Spain, Cities of Northern, Southern, and Central Italy (separate works), Days near Rome and Sussex." In Mylar protector. Volume II Unopened. Minor external wear, else, Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with red parallel lines top and bottom boards and spine, and gilt lettering to spine..