Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse) [Two Volumes]

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1896. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth, 495 + 416 pp. Rear hinge split to second volume, slight odor, else near fine, very good minus overall. The uncommon survey of the careers of the Hutchinson Family Singers, who spent decades committed to abolitionism and other social causes while performing throughout New England and beyond. Frederick Douglass writes the introduction. The author was the thirteenth son of Jesse Hutchinson and Mary Hastings Leavitt. The volumes provide an extensive career survey of the group beginning with the genealogical origins of the Hutchinson family up through the time of writing. Uncommon in the trade.