Uncle Tom’s Cabin, With A New Preface Expressly Written For This Edition, Authorized For The Continent Of Europe, Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1852. From the Collection of British Authors; Volume One: CCXLIII. Volume Two: CCXLIV. 16mo up to 6½” tall. Volume One: 352pp. with frontis portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe; preface; title; contents. Volume Two: 317pp., with half-title; table of contents; 2 frontis illustrative plates: “Scenes Under The Shadow Of American Law”; “Uncle Tom’s Death”. Half green leather, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Banded spine with florets in gilt. Contents appear in unread condition with an occasional light foxing mark; very light toning; pastoral bookplate to blank page. Boards in very nice condition with rubbing to edges. This rare copy was published in the same year as the first edition, with copyright authorized for the European market.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s New Preface, addressed criticisms of the book, as well as an explanation of why American slavery should concern Europeans.
