STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin. 27 wood-engraved plates by George Cruikshank; wood-engraved frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette. 9 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, spine darkened, extremities moderately rubbed; residue on front pastedown from removed booklabel, scattered minor 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