The Minister's Wooing

London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1859.

Price: $350.00

Hardcover. First English illustrated edition with illustrations by Phiz, book issue (also issued in parts). With a one-page Preface by Stowe not present in the American edition. Coated brown endpapers. Contemporary (likely publisher's) half brown leather with marbled papercovered boards and red morocco spine label gilt. Corner and boards rubbed, a sound, near very good copy. A look at New England life in the 18th Century. English novelist John Fowles' copy with his Signature dated in 1963. *BAL* 19406 (noting what is likely this binding).

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Item #597177 The Minister's Wooing. Harriet Beecher STOWE.
The Minister's Wooing

Harriet Beecher Stowe
birth name: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
born: 6/14/1811
died: 7/1/1896
nationality: USA

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American writer and philanthropist best known as the author of the powerful anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore