Research Catalog

Title

Uncle Tom's cabin / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with twenty-seven illustrations on wood by George Cruikshank, Esq.

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Publication

London : John Cassell, 1852.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
• Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800-
• Measom, William.
• Jackson, M.
• Duyckinck Collection.

Description

xxiii, [1], 391, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 20 cm.

Subjects

• Slavery > Southern States > Fiction
• Drawings > Great Britain > 19th century
• American fiction
• Slaves > Southern States > Fiction
• African Americans > Southern States > Fiction

Genre/Form

• American fiction.
• Drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• Originally issued in 13 weekly pts., beginning Oct. 23, 1852. Title page and other prelims. in pt. 13.
• Called "the first English edition" by Hildreth, but cf. BAL 19518.
• Illustrations: 28 prints : wood engraving ; full-page. By T. Williams, Wm. Measom, M. Jackson and others, after Cruikshank. -- Vignette on t.p. (detail of a full-page ill.)
• 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.
• Publisher's advertisements: p. [392]
• Parts issue: Each pt. (no.) in buff paper covers. Publisher's and general advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin
• Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné
• Reid, G.W. George Cruikshank
• Hildreth, M.H. Stowe
• Jorgenson, C.E. Uncle Tom's cabin

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Call Number

MEM C955su (Stowe, H. E. B. Uncle Tom's cabin)

LCCN

16012453 //r973

OCLC

35127803

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Title

Uncle Tom's cabin / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with twenty-seven illustrations on wood by George Cruikshank, Esq.

Imprint

London : John Cassell, 1852.

Indexed In:

Sabin 92470

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné, 777

Reid, G.W. George Cruikshank, 4280-4308, 5022

Hildreth, M.H. Stowe, p. 8-9

Jorgenson, C.E. Uncle Tom's cabin, 4

Local Note

Copy in MEM: Duyckinck Collection.

Arents copy: Parts issue; partly unopened.

Arents copy accompanied by: Holograph note (2 p.), signed Hartford, June 30, 1891, beginning "Has there ever been a child like Eva? Yes."

Spencer Coll. copy: Parts issue. A sheet of sketches preliminary to the plate facing p. 22, with the artist's autograph, is laid in no. 8.

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2018. Copy in Sc Rare D 18-14 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Added Author

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. Illustrator

Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800- Wood engraver

Measom, William. Wood engraver

Jackson, M. Wood engraver

Duyckinck Collection.

Research Call Number

MEM C955su (Stowe, H. E. B. Uncle Tom's cabin)

Arents BIP (Stowe, H. Uncle 1852) 06-6

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1852 (Stowe, H. E. B. Uncle Tom's cabin)

Sc Rare D 18-14 (Lapidus Collection)