8vo (216 x 133 mm). 40 illustrations (some very light intermittent spotting.) Original blue cloth gilt, all edges gilt (some rubbing to extremities, partial split on front hinge, slight lean to spine). Provenance: Lovejoy (early bookseller's ticket); contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper.

EARLY ENGLISH EDITION, third issue of the first English edition (according to Sabin) with 380pp. and the Preface signed "G". The publication history of the Clarke editions is unclear as both BAL and Sabin list that the earliest advertisements for the English edition noted only 300pp. but we have not found any copies institutionally with this pagination, only copies with 380pp. including the one in the British Library.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was initially serialized in the abolitionist periodical The National Era beginning on July 5, 1851. The plates for the tenth American edition were shipped from America to France in April 1852, and were then transferred to Clarke & Co. in London for immediate publication. Thomas Babington Macaulay, a historian and politician whose first volume of The History of England had been published four years earlier, wrote in 1852 that "it is the most valuable addition America has made to English literature." In the RARE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Sabin 92471; BAL 19518.