Research Catalog

Title

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; vol. I-[II].

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Publication

Boston : John P. Jewett & Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

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Additional Authors

• Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874
• Baker, William Jay
• John P. Jewett & Co., publisher.
• Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.
• Geo. C. Rand and Company, printer.
• New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.
• Hobart and Robbins, stereotyper.
• Baker & Smith, engraver.

Description

2 v. : ill.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Uncle Tom's cabin
• Life among the lowly

Subjects

• Slaves > Fiction
• Slavery > United States > Fiction
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine."--copyright statement, verso of title page in both volumes.
• "Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, Boston. Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Co., no. 3, Cornhill."--verso of title page in both volumes.
• Plates by Hammatt Billings engraved by W.J. Baker; title vignettes engraved by Baker & Smith.
• Vol. 1: [3], vi-x, [1], 14-312 p., [3] leaves of plates; v. 2: iv, [1], 6-322 p., [3] leaves of plates.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature
• Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition)
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page of v. 1 "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-S (Stowe, H. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. Boston: 1852)

LCCN

12015048 //r912

OCLC

• 281050
• NYPGR281050-B

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Title

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; vol. I-[II].

Imprint

Boston : John P. Jewett & Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 19343

Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition), 408

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 92457

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 2401

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-S (Stowe, H. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. Boston: 1852) (accession nos. B527081-B527082) inscribed: in ink on title page of v. 1 "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-S (Stowe, H. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. Boston: 1852) has impression statement on title page of v 1: "Fiftieth thousand" and v. 2: "Sixtieth thousand."

Copy in Sc Rare D 19-15 (Lapidus Collection) is the first issue of the first edition.

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to microfilm in: Sc Micro R-6315.

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2019. Copy in Sc Rare D 19-15 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Added Author

John P. Jewett & Co., publisher.

Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.

Geo. C. Rand and Company, printer.

New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.

Hobart and Robbins, stereotyper.

Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874, illustrator.

Baker, William Jay, engraver.

Baker & Smith, engraver.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-S (Stowe, H. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. Boston: 1852)

NBO (Stowe, H. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. 1852)

*KL (Stowe, H. E. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. Boston (2 v.))

8-*KL (Stowe, H. E. B. Uncle Tom's cabin. Boston (2 v.))

Sc Rare D 19-15 (Lapidus Collection)