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Understanding 9/112 volumes : 20 cm
The story that awakened the conscience of the nation to life under the slave system
"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"--Title page verso of both volumes
Originally published in the National era at Washington from June 1851 to April 1852
Stereotyper statement from title page verso; place of stereotyping follows statement. Later printings add imprint of Geo. C. Rand & Co., printers
Collation: leaves 18.9 x 11.7 cm: v.1. 1⁴ 2-26⁶ [$1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*'; signing 1₂ as '1*']; 154 leaves, pages [III-V] VI-X [13] 14-312 [=308] + [3] plates (to face pages 62, 174, 284) -- v.2. [1]⁶ 2-27⁶ [leaves 1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*']; 162 leaves, pages [I-III] IV [5] 6-322 [323-324 (blank)] + [3] plates (to face pages 63, 198, 238)
"The [printing] plates of the original edition were used for many printings over many years, all of which can be differentiated from the 1st printing by the inclusion of a thousandth statement on the title page or a change in the imprint. In addition, corrections were made to the plates for the 2nd printing."--Bibliography of American Literature (entry includes a sample of the corrections, and notes that some copies with "tenth thousand" on the title page may contain a mixture of sheets from the 1st and 2nd printings)
Includes six illustrations (three in each volume) and a title vignette (same in volumes 1 and 2), all drawn by Hammatt Billings, with engraver's signature of W.J. Baker or Baker-Smith
Issued in three bindings: regular cloth (T cloth, black, purple or brown), front cover vignette (same as on title pages) and spine lettering stamped in gold, all other decoration in blind, plain edges; extra gilt cloth (T cloth, black or blue, or S cloth, blue), stamped entirely in gold, top edges gilt; and tan wrappers, front cover same as title pages, in decorative border, and above title "Price $1.00 for two vols. ... ", publishers' advertisement on back cover. Cloth bindings with cream endpapers and single flyleaf at front and back
The story that awakened the conscience of the nation to life under the slave system
"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"--Title page verso of both volumes
Originally published in the National era at Washington from June 1851 to April 1852
Stereotyper statement from title page verso; place of stereotyping follows statement. Later printings add imprint of Geo. C. Rand & Co., printers
Collation: leaves 18.9 x 11.7 cm: v.1. 1⁴ 2-26⁶ [$1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*'; signing 1₂ as '1*']; 154 leaves, pages [III-V] VI-X [13] 14-312 [=308] + [3] plates (to face pages 62, 174, 284) -- v.2. [1]⁶ 2-27⁶ [leaves 1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*']; 162 leaves, pages [I-III] IV [5] 6-322 [323-324 (blank)] + [3] plates (to face pages 63, 198, 238)
"The [printing] plates of the original edition were used for many printings over many years, all of which can be differentiated from the 1st printing by the inclusion of a thousandth statement on the title page or a change in the imprint. In addition, corrections were made to the plates for the 2nd printing."--Bibliography of American Literature (entry includes a sample of the corrections, and notes that some copies with "tenth thousand" on the title page may contain a mixture of sheets from the 1st and 2nd printings)
Includes six illustrations (three in each volume) and a title vignette (same in volumes 1 and 2), all drawn by Hammatt Billings, with engraver's signature of W.J. Baker or Baker-Smith
Issued in three bindings: regular cloth (T cloth, black, purple or brown), front cover vignette (same as on title pages) and spine lettering stamped in gold, all other decoration in blind, plain edges; extra gilt cloth (T cloth, black or blue, or S cloth, blue), stamped entirely in gold, top edges gilt; and tan wrappers, front cover same as title pages, in decorative border, and above title "Price $1.00 for two vols. ... ", publishers' advertisement on back cover. Cloth bindings with cream endpapers and single flyleaf at front and back
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