Revolution, The. 52 issues: V.3, N.1 - V.4, N.26.
52 Issues, Specially Bound by a Subscriber
Anthony, Susan B., Publisher; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, editors. The Revolution. 52 issues (Vol. III, no. 1 – Vol. IV, no. 26). New York, 1869.
4to.; 52 vols., each 16 pages, continuously paginated 1-416 and 1-416 (break at July 8, 1869); most lightly creased as if folded for mailing; specially bound together; small rectangular bookplate affixed to front pastedown; ownership signature, pencil, on the first page of the first issue (“Mrs. L.A.L. Hooker, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin”); contemporary ¾ marbled paper-covered boards; light grey cloth spine; leather spine label, stamped in gilt; spine foxed. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
A run of 52 issues of Anthony’s first, and only, effort at owning and managing a periodical. A three-page typed explanation of this bound collection, written by Mary Ankeny Hunter, is tipped-in to the first endpaper; it states:
This volume includes the publication of the Revolution during the year 1869 and was purchased from a book stall in California about 1932 by Mr. Harvey Ingham of the Editorial Staff of the Des Moines Register. He presented it to the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission at the time. In 1938 Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman Catt presented a set of three bound volumes, which is the entire collection of this earliest suffrage organization, published during 1868-69-70. It is probably the only available set in the entire world. This duplicate volume, therefore, is hereby returned to Mr. Ingham that he may present it to another institution.
In the next two pages, Hunter explains the rift that caused the formation of the disparate suffrage groups – the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, and various players with these groups, including: Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone, Tennie Claflin and George Francis Train.
In her closing paragraph, Hunter explains the bookplate on the front endpaper. She says “Dr. Mrs. L.A.L. Hooker” was an original subscriber to The Revolution, and, therefore, must have been an “interested suffragist.” On the cover of Whole No. 79, July 8, 1869, someone—we assume Hooker—has corrected the misprint “Vol. I No. IV” in pencil to read, “Vol. IV No. 1.” Hunter notes on page 415, a “Mrs. Hooker” had participated in a Congressional Committee discussion in Washington, D.C, and later, comments on Isabella Beecher Hooker (sister of Henry Ward Beecher)—but it is unclear if the owner of this collection was either of these “Hookers.”
Complete runs for full years of this short-lived periodical are scarce; to find one such as this, preserved in pristine condition by an original subscriber, is unheard of.
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