Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: Volumes 1 & 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher - 1852

Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. 1st Ed.. Hardcover. Good/None. Two volume set, 312 and 322 pages, hardcovers, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on front and gilt lettering on spine. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes. First edition with Hobart & Robbins slug on the copyright page. Both volumes state Twenty-Fifth Thousand on the title page indicating a probable fourth printing. The first was five thousand and sold out immediately. Both volumes with chipping and fraying to top and bottom of spines, Vol. 1 with about 1/4" cloth missing at bottom. All corners show wear, spines slightly cocked, but bindings are tight. Clean set, with very minor foxing. Record # 414758