UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY Stowe, Harriet Beecher. (Cleaveland, Moses) Literature

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A later printing (1894) of "A New Edition, with Illustrations and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen" (1878). 8vo, publishers plain green cloth, black-endpapers, with evidence of past reinforcement of hinges, front and rear. Hartford bookstore ticket rear pastedown. Inscribed: "Harriet Beecher Stowe/ written for/ Miss Cleaveland/ June 30, 1895" PROVENANCE: Heirs of the Cleaveland family, whose genealogy goes back to colonial Connecticut. Penciled in the inscription before "Miss Cleaveland" are the letters "EW" which identifies the inscribee as Elizabeth Whittlesey Cleaveland, one of Elisha Whittlesey Cleaveland's daughters, and great, great granddaughter of Moses Cleaveland (1754 -…