A key to Uncle Tom's Cabin presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

STOWE (Harriet Beecher).

VIII, 595 pp., a few small figures & 3 pp. of a facsimile in text, 4 pp. (works recently published by Thomas Bosworth), engraved portrait-frontispiece (John W. Cook sculpt.), original blind stamped purple-brown cloth, gilt title on spine, on foot of spine is printed in gilt G. Routledge & Co. Early - if not the first - UK edition. With the appendix at the end of the book. Response by the author of Oncle Tom's Cabin to accusations of exaggerations of evil slavery. It is so, in in its own, an important abolitionist document. Name and date of the former owner on fly (H. Barbey, 15 Aug. 1853). Spine very slightly sunned, frontispiece a bit foxed, otherwise a very good, tight copy. Bookseller's label inside (Librairie Desrogis, 179 , Rue du Rhône, Genève).