Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Mr Leslie with kind remembrance from H. B. Stowe" to leaf tipped onto title with embossed stamp of a woman in profile to head, armorial bookplate of William Leslie, illustrations, some foxing to endpapers and first few ff., original blind-stamped cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine and head of upper cover faded, couple small marks, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Boston & New York, Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854.

⁂ Presentation copy to the Scottish architect William Leslie (1802-1879). Stowe's work, which includes an account of her visit to Scotland, gives details of her meeting with Leslie on pp.105-106: "One of the friends who had accompanied us during the morning tour was the celebrated architect, Mr. Leslie, whose conversation gave us all much enjoyment. He and Mrs. Leslie gave me a most invaluable parting present, to wit, four volumes of engravings, representing the 'Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland,' illustrated by Billings. I cannot tell you what a mine of pleasure it has been to me...". In a letter dated 9th October 1854 contained in The Sampson Low Collection (digitised by the Open University), Leslie refers to receiving two copies of Stowe's Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, one of which he has given to the illustrator George Cruikshank.