A very nice, first edition, second printing of Harriet's book that started the Civil War. And this the copy of locally influential Ohio abolitionist, F. W. Seymour, whose anti-slavery resolutions were published originally in the Ohio Observer, and then picked up and printed in William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, August 13, 1847, p.2 [120], third column at the bottom.
Seymour acted as Clerk on the committee. Originally a dry goods merchant in Ravenna, Ohio, he branched out into the sale of books as well in the early 1850's, foxing on anti-slavery material. The present likely from his own bookstore stock.
The second printing of the first edition printed and sold out within a week of the first printing.
[Slavery - Abolition - Civil War]. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. Boston. John P. Jewett & Company. Cleveland, Ohio. Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington. 1852. First Edition, Second Printing (Completing Ten Thousand). 312pp + 322pp.
A good set, cloths slightly mismatched [as usual]. Volume one a bit cocked, dampstained only into the first chapter, and similarly at the rear. Else generally clean. This edition either mispaginated, or the present copy lacks a blank at 10/11. Volume 2 has the usual slightly darker brown cloth, not cocked, but with more rubbing at extremities, with minor chipping. A few signatures forward in the binding, but solidly bound.
