Published just one year after the famed Cigar-Smoking scandal involving C. H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, the present impressively illustrated work aims to habilitate the reputation of the "smoky leaf." 

A very respectable and attractive example in the desirable original cloth. Not at auction since 1990, when a similar exampled fetched $150.00.

Billings, E. R. Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, with An Account of its Various Modes of Use, form its First Discovery Until Now. With Illustrations [170] by Popular Artists. Hartford, Connecticut. American Publishing Company. 1875. 468pp.

Good + to very good with bright gold decorative titling on spine, small nick to central panel on front board. Rear lower corner through cloth. Interior very clean and solid save a separation between title and succeeding leaf. A very nice example of a desirable work.