COSWAY STYLE BINDING) STOWE, Harriet Beecher.

Uncle Tom?s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

      Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1852 - First edition, published on 20 March 1852 in an edition of 5,000 copies which immediately sold out. "The sale of the book was indeed phenomenal In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth century America, Uncle Tom?s Cabin exploded like a bombshell [Its social impact] on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since" (Printing and the Mind of Man). 2 volumes, 8vo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, boards decoratively panelled in gilt, the front cover of each volume set with an oval miniature under glass, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges and dentelles decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, matching red silk doublures and liners, all edges gilt. Housed in red cloth solander boxes. Title vignettes and six wood-engraved plates. The miniatures show a portrait of Stowe in volume one and a scene from the book in volume two. A fine clean set in a handsome binding. [Attributes: First Edition]