Retribution: A Tale of Passion. (Peterson's Uniform Edition of the Complete Works of Mrs. Emma D.E.N. Southworth)

305, 19, [7] pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine, debossed title and decorations on boards, engraved frontispiece. Retribution was serialized in The National Era in 1849 and was published in book form the same year. It launched Southworth's career as a writer of popular fiction.