Uncle Tom's cabin. / By Harriet Beecher Stowe. With twenty-seven illustrations on wood by George Cruikshank, Esq.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069137
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, [1], 391, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 8vo. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript description of this copy (price cut out). Pencil number "532" on final page of text; pencil number "7171" on rear free endpaper. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century Cosway binding: full brown morocoo; elaborate gilt floral sprays with green morocco in-lays on boards and spine panels; miniature of Harriet Beecher Stowe in gilt oval frame on upper board; spine title gilt: 'Uncle Tom's cabin'; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt rolled board edges; gilt tooled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; brown watered-silk endleaves; brown silk ribbon markers. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'. In brown cloth-covered protective case, black lettered spine title: 'Uncle Tom's cabin'.
Makers and roles
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator