Format:
1 Online-Ressource (2 volumes)
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illustrations (wood engravings)
Edition:
[First edition]
Uniform Title:
Uncle Tom's cabin
Note:
Title vignette
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"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine"--Title page verso of both volumes
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Originally published in the National era at Washington from June 1851 to April 1852
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Stereotyper statement from title page verso; place of stereotyping follows statement. Later printings add imprint of Geo. C. Rand & Co., printers
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Collation: leaves 18.9 x 11.7 cm: v.1. 1⁴ 2-26⁶ [$1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*'; signing 1₂ as '1*']; 154 leaves, pages [III-V] VI-X [13] 14-312 [=308] + [3] plates (to face pages 62, 174, 284) -- v.2. [1]⁶ 2-27⁶ [leaves 1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*']; 162 leaves, pages [I-III] IV [5] 6-322 [323-324 (blank)] + [3] plates (to face pages 63, 198, 238)
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"The [printing] plates of the original edition were used for many printings over many years, all of which can be differentiated from the 1st printing by the inclusion of a thousandth statement on the title page or a change in the imprint. In addition, corrections were made to the plates for the 2nd printing."--BAL (entry includes a sample of the corrections, and notes that some copies with "tenth thousand" on the title page may contain a mixture of sheets from the 1st and 2nd printings)
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Includes six illustrations (three in each volume) and a title vignette (same in v. 1 and 2), all drawn by Hammatt Billings, with engraver's signature of W.J. Baker or Baker-Smith
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Issued in three bindings: regular cloth (T cloth, black, purple or brown), front cover vignette (same as on title pages) and spine lettering stamped in gold, all other decoration in blind, plain edges; extra gilt cloth (T cloth, black or blue, or S cloth, blue), stamped entirely in gold, top edges gilt; and tan wrappers, front cover same as title pages, in decorative border, and above title "Price $1.00 for two vols. ... ", publishers' advertisement on back cover. Cloth bindings with cream endpapers and single flyleaf at front and back
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CRL DDS version derived from microfilm set Selection of titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Series 2. Section 4, Creative spirit ; reel 26, no. 6
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Bibliography of American literature, 19343
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly Boston: : John P. Jewett & Company. ; Cleveland, Ohio: : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington., 1852
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Microfilm version Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library
Language:
English
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