Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, Uncle Tom's cabin , 1852
- Title(s):
- Uncle Tom's cabin / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with 27 illustrations on wood by George Cruikshank, esq.
- Published/Created:
- London : John Cassell, 1852.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 391, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsPS2954 .U5 1852Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3283211
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- View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Cruikshank's designs engraved on wood by Dalziel, W.T. Green, Mason Jackson, William Measom, Thomas Williams, and G.W. Willis.
"Notice of Mrs. Stowe and her family" (p. [xv]-xxii) largely based upon an article from Fraser's magazine, 1852, v. 46, p. 518-525 ("Some account of Mrs. Beecher Stowe and her family, by an Alabama ma")
Originally issued in 13 parts in paper wrappers.
With a wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author.
Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 777
Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in later boards. - Subject Terms:
- African Americans -- Fiction.Cassell, John -- Publisher.Plantation life -- Fiction.Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.Slavery -- Fiction.Southern States -- Fiction.Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Form/Genre:
- Didactic fiction.
Wood engravings -- 1852. - Export:
- XML
- Preface to the American edition
- Contents
- List of the illustrations
- Introduction
- Mrs. Stowe and her family
- Opinions of the press
- Results
- Uncle Tom's cabin.
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