A first edition first issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, two volumes bound in a contemporary full red morocco American leather binding with five raised bands, gilt-stamped title and floral ornaments on the spine, and blind-stamped floral corner-pieces within a double-ruled border on the covers. Missing first fly leave.
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The First Edition, First Issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852, is identified by specific features. A key point is the misspelling “spilt” instead of “spiled” in Volume I, page 42, line 1,
and “cathecism” instead of “catechism” in Volume II, page 74, line 5.
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No attribution to Billings for the engravings.
Stereotype notice on copyright pages and title pages lacking a printing statement.
