A Day at Laguerre's and Other Days
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 190pp. Neat gift inscription on first blank, large reproduction of a portrait of Hopkinson laid down on front endpaper with information laid down opposite, and a 1915 New York Times obituary tipped-on to the verso of the front endpaper with offsetting opposite, very good. Otherwise a clean copy.
Item #450026
F. Hopkinson Smith
birth name: Francis Hopkinson Smith
born: 10/23/1838
died: 4/7/1915
Biography
American author, artist, and engineer. His 1891 book Colonel Carter of Cartersville was selected as a Johnson Highspot of American Literature, and he built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty.more