Dred: a tale of the great dismal swamp
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Category
Books
Date
1856
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3064684.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2. . 8vo.. Author's presentation copy to Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan [i.e. Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1807-1886 and Hannah More Trevelyan, 1810-1873]. Manuscript notes in the hand of Charles Philips Trevelyan including date of reading( Nov. 21. 1931). 'This is far less good than Uncle Tom's Cabin; but it is a magnificent prelude to the story of the Civil War. It shows the utter degradation of the southern whites [...]'. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's embossed cloth. With conservation report by Nicholas Pickwoad (November 1984) tipped in. Phase box.
Makers and roles
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)