Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly ---bound with --- Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Two Volumes in One de Stowe, Harriet Beecher - 1852

Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: Maclear & Company, 1852, 1856, 1st Edition , 1852. -------------hardcover, both Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and Dred (1856) are bound into this volume, Dred consists of both volumes, half leather with feathered marbled boards, some wear especially along the lower edgee of the boards, a contemporary binding, 2 ink names on first blank, one pencil name on front blank endpaper, front blank endpaper has been glued to the verso of the front cover and has started to lift, offset and browning to the endpapers, 2 illustrations, one faces the title page and depicts an Auction Sale of slaves, the other illustration faces the first page of text and depicts Arrival in Canada (see page 171 ), both of these illustrations have the initials F C L within the art but the illustrations are identical to the Hammatt Billings illustrations from the US 1st edition, text is laid out in double columns, a bit of browning and some foxing to some of the pages, as well there are some unobtrusive stains within the text but nothing too serious, a tight square copy with just a bit of looseness to some of the signatures, not only are UT'sC and DRED within this book but there is an appendix at the rear as well which contains excerpts from "Nat Turner's Confessions", the appendix seems to relate to DRED and not UT'sC, the pagination is 198 for UNCLE, 212 for DRED, viii for Appendix, some copies of the Canadian edition of UNCLE have 2 pages of ads after the text, this copy does not have the ads, UNCLE was released in 1852 in the US and the UK as well, the preface for this book begins ..."The reprint of Mrs. Stowe's work, which we now offer to the British American reader. .." does not indicate a reprint but is in regard to this being an edition AFTER the US edition, this is the Canadian 1st edition, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (see description)/No Jacket as issued. Illus. by Hammatt Billings ( ? ).