1880 Scarce Edition - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Color illustrated.
(Description)
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Tale of Life Among the Lowly.
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, no date (circa 1880).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5" X 5".
Pages: xvi-480 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original Victorian decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, some light foxing and staining - as shown, gift note of a previous 1889 owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 6 full-page colored illustrations.
Estimate: (Scarce with no of few other copies of this colored illustrated variant available for sale worldwide).
The book: Scarce and charming colored illustrated edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly -- an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War."
The author: Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family, a religious family, and became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.