Sunny memories of foreign lands.
London.
Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1854.
First English edition.
8vo.
In two volumes. xii, 326, 11, [1]; viii, 242pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue to Vol. I. Partially unopened in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned, top edge dust-soiled. Later book-labels of 'Teddesley' to both FEPs, very occasional marginal chipping.
The first English edition of novelist and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811- 1896) epistolary travelogue recording her extended tour of England and Scotland and mainland Europe.
Stowe had already secured celebrity and commercial success as a result of the publication of her immensely successful anti-slavery narrative Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, 1852), nonetheless, during her travels, which are largely described in letters to her children, she expresses continual surprise at the enthusiastic reception she received. She met many eminent statesmen and writers, including Macaulay, Gladstone, Mrs. Gaskell, and Thackeray, and attended several anti-slavery meetings.
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Stowe had already secured celebrity and commercial success as a result of the publication of her immensely successful anti-slavery narrative Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, 1852), nonetheless, during her travels, which are largely described in letters to her children, she expresses continual surprise at the enthusiastic reception she received. She met many eminent statesmen and writers, including Macaulay, Gladstone, Mrs. Gaskell, and Thackeray, and attended several anti-slavery meetings.
