Engraved frontispiece and additional title–page, numerous in text illustrations by Baker and Smith after Billings (frontispiece and engraved title–page heavily foxed). Original gilt–decorated red cloth (rebacked, partially retaining original spine, remainder skillfully executed in facsimile). Laid in with a CdV portrait of Stowe. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, published a year after the two–volume first asfaslkdjfhas
Includes a loose signature care for J. W. Moulton, likely J. W. Moulton, the Salem, Massachusetts' based photographer remembered for his Civil War portraits, including those of the 64th Colored Infantry, etc. Also the signatures of Sarah C. Webster and C. F. Jordon.
An inferior example sold at Hindman, 2020, for $480.00.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated Edition. Complete in One Volume. Original Designs by Billings; Engraved by Backer and Smith. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington. 1853. 560pp
Original full crushed morocco with decorative gold embossing to spine and both boards; the decorations on the spine largely obscured, boards attractive. The front hinge has a 3 inch split to the base. Decorative endpapers retained, text and illustrations throughout are generally clean and bright.
