Uncle Tom's Cabin. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. ILLUSTRATED,LITERATURE

FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. (20 x 14cm). pp.xxiii+[1]+391+[1]. Half brown morocco over purple cloth, marbled endpapers, spine gilt decorated. 27 full-page engravings. With the bookplate of David Hughes to front. Two leaves slightly sprung. Contents clean, a very good copy in an attractive binding. The first edition featuring Cruikshank's illustrations. With one page Cassell advertisement to rear. This edition was preceded by the Jewett Boston and London Clark & Co. Edition, both of the same year.