Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Author/creator Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Other author Rives, Ralph Hardee, former owner.
Format Book
EditionFifteenth thousand.
PublicationBoston : John P. Jewett & Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
Copyright Date©1851
Description2 volumes (312, 322) : illustrations, plates ; 20 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Uncle Tom's cabin
Portion of title Life among the lowly
Local noteJoyner Rare copy includes inscription "Ralph Hardee Rives - presented on March 9, 1980 by David Brownwood, from the library of his mother, Ruth Bellamy Brownwood" on front fly-leaf. Includes volume II only.
General noteTitle vignette.
General note"Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, Boston. Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Co., No. 3 Cornhill"--Title page verso.
General note"Entered according to Act of Congress ... 1851, by Harriet Beecher Stowe ... District Court ... District of Maine."--Title page verso.
General noteVolume II has separate title page.
General note[1st edition, 3rd impression]
General noteEdition identified by slug "Fifteenth thosand" on recto of title page beneath volume number and above publisher's statement (Cf. The first editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin: a bibliographical study by E. Bruce Kirkham, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 65, 1971, pages 365-376).
General noteBrown cloth covers, front vignette and spine lettering gold stamped; other designs blind stamped. Includes stamp of "Jewett & Co." on spine, an idenfier of a later issue of the first edition (Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 92457).
References Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 92457
References Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 2401
Genre/formFiction.
Genre/formNovels.