Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly / Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Standardized Title:

Uncle Tom's cabin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--Fiction.

Slavery.

Slavery--Fiction.

Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Uncle Tom.

Plantation life--Fiction.

Plantation life.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Fugitive slaves--Fiction.

Fugitive slaves.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 634 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm.

Other Title:

Life among the lowly

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, [1899], c1894.

Notes:

Added illustrated title leaf.

Publication date from style of binding. Cf. Henry Altemus website (viewed on 30 May 2018).

Binding: full orange publisher's cloth. Left board has title stamped in gold at head between two gilt butterflies, with two thorned sprays of gilt roses (the roses colored pink and red) beneath, the whole surrounded by a gilt border of wavy lines and dots. Title and author's surname stamped in gold on spine; spine decorated with gilt and colored rose blossoms with thorned stems and leaves. Decorative endpapers with publisher's HA monogram.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

OCLC:

1038504281