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Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Publisher: S.W. Partridge & Co, London;
Date of Publication: 1904
Stock Code: 14487
Reprint. Octavo, pp., 416, plus 24 page catalogue. Monochrome frontispiece with plates and illustrations within text. Publishers’ polychrome illustrated cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Slightly sunned spine, with some rubbing to edges corners and tips, light toning to the text-block edges. Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Originally published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward slavery in the USA, and is credited with fueling the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel in the 19th century USA, and second best-selling book overall after the Bible. An attractive Edwardian reprint. £38.00