Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among The Lowly. New Illustrated Edition, with Frontispiece by John Gilbert, Ornamental title-page by Phiz, and 130 Engravings on Wood by Matthew Urlwin Sears.

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  • Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1853

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Description

8vo, pp. xii, 508 + frontispiece and engraved title-page. Numerous illustrations included within pagination. later half calf, brown cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands gilt between double blind rules, red morocco label, marbled edges. Spine lightly sunned, a little rubbed to extremities. Gift inscription to flyleaf to The Rev. Joseph Brown from the Committee of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society ‘as a small mark of their esteem, and in remembrance of the course of lectures delivered by him on this volume’ dated 12th April 1853.

Notes

An early Scottish printing of this landmark anti-slavery novel. Following serialisation, book publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by John Jewett of Boston on March 20th 1852 was an immediate success, with a reported 3,000 copies sold on the first day. Reprints proliferated, many of them unauthorised, on both sides of the Atlantic, although this edition was at least known to Stowe, as the archives of the publisher Adam and Charles Black contain a letter from the author thanking them for sending her a copy.

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