STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin. 27 wood-engraved plates by George Cruikshank; wood-engraved frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette. 1 page of publisher's advertisements at rear. 8vo, contemporary full mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece, top edges and turn ins gilt, joints rubbed; scattered light to moderate foxing. first english edition illustrated by george cruikshank (the true English first edition likely the C. H. Clark edition which preceded this edition by a few weeks). London: John Cassell, 1852