[BASHFORD, Sir Henry Howarth]

Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself. Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

London, The Folio Society, 1988 [first thus].

Octavo, xx, 199 pages plus 13 illustrations from drawings by David Eccles.

Pictorial cloth; a fine copy in the slightly rubbed slipcase.

Introduction by John Letts. The 'Publisher's Weekly' website describes the book (first published anonymously in 1924) as an 'apocryphal autobiography of a painfully pious, self-satisfied English landowner [whose] droll inanities of its protagonist easily pass muster'.

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