Hill-Stead’s library
contains over 3,300 volumes that belonged to the Popes, a self-educated,
well-traveled American family whose reading spanned numerous disciplines
and several genres. Included are Noteworthy Paintings in American
Private Collections, edited by artist John LaFarge and August Jaccaci,
with a chapter on Alfred Pope’s collection; Ogilby’s
America of 1671; and a two-volume 1755 first edition of Samuel Johnson’s
dictionary.

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