Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
£250
London, Cassell, 1852.
First Cruikshank edition. 8vo. Later half green morocco on marbled boards.
A handsome example of this important early English edition, preceded by the Clark & Co. edition of 1852.
In stock
Offsetting from frontispiece, small ink mark to title-page.
Frontispiece portrait, title vignette and 27 plates by George Cruikshank.
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