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STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by the American authoress 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". In the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
- Published
- Paris: chez Bulla Frères et Jouy Editeurs, Londres: chez E. Gambart & C°, New York: Emile Seitz, Berlin: Fd Ebner, sd (second half 19th century)
- Plates
- 8
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: chez Bulla Frères et Jouy Editeurs, Londres: chez E. Gambart & C°, New York: Emile Seitz, Berlin: Fd Ebner, sd (second half 19th century)
- Ref
- 1511
Folio. Plates only. Quarter blue cloth cardboard covered boards with ties. Some rubbing and staining to boards, but contents good. Set of 8 lithographed plates beautifully heightened by hand in a contemporary colour, printed by Lemercier in Paris. Five plates are lithographed by Régnier (plates 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8), and 3 plates by Bettannier (plates 3, 4, and 5). Some light foxing in margins. This set illustrates the classic American book of Uncle Tom's Cabin. 'The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since' (PMM 332). A wonderful set indeed. Colour plates in order: 1. Eliza and George Harris. 2. Mrs. Bird. 3. Evangeline and Tom. 4. Lucy and her Child. 5. Mrs. Marie Ste Clare. 6. Topsy and Mrs. Ste Clare. 7. Cassy and Tom. 8. Emeline and her mother.
