Dred : a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Contributor:

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--Fiction.

Slavery.

United States.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--Fiction.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Morse, Charles (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Greene, James B. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Westfield Athenaeum (Westfield, Mass.) (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Robinson, Robert Byron (autograph) (former owner) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856.

Notes:

Also published as: Nina Gordon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy vol. 2 has stamp of Charles Morse.

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: each vol. has autograph ("James B. Greene U.S.A.") on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: v. 1 has paper slip with a few ms. bibliographical notes laid in.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: each has publisher's advertisements on pastedowns and free endpaper; v. 1 has [6] p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at end of volume.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: v. 1: "Thirtieth thousand."; v. 2: "Sixtieth thousand."

Schimmel Collection copy 2: v. 1-2 each has early ms. note ("First Edition") at head of blank leaf following front free endpaper; v. 1 has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: each vol. has ms. ownership inscription ("R.B. Robinson's Book, Richmond Vermont") of Robert Byron Robinson (1839-1916) in pencil and autograph ("R.B. Robinson Richmond Vermont") of the same person in ink on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: each vol. has illustrated gift bookplate ("GIVEN TO The Westfield Athenaeum by Robert Byron Robinson In Memory of his Wife Mary Standish Robinson Who Died August 12, 1892") on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: each has publisher's advertisements on pastedowns and free endpaper; v. 1 has [6] p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at end of volume.

Cited in:

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1851-1875, 2391

Contains:

Nina Gordon.

OCLC:

275625