First Edition First State Dred (1856) Harriet Beecher Stowe Cloth Hardcover Good

Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. First edition, first state two volume cloth bound hardcover of Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe. First edition, first state volumes with identification points matching those listed in BAL #19389: - BAL binding A, being blind-stamped brown cloth with holly-like leaves. - Pale yellow endpapers. - Volume I, Page 88, Line 3: The ascender of the 'd' in 'dictatorial' positioned almost directly below the vertical stroke of the 'r' in the word 'rather' from the line directly above it. - Volume I, Page 209: No batter. - Volume II, Appendices present with inclusion of Nat Turner's Confessions. - Volume II, Page 370, Ninth line up from the bottom: States 'the Dicksons are fewer, and have' with no mention of 'the Ruskins.' Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred (1856), Stowe attempts