History of Woman Suffrage, The, Vols. I-IV.
Annotated by Susan B. Anthony’s sister Mary
shortly after SBA’s death
[Anthony, Susan B.] Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, Eds. The History Of Woman Suffrage. Volumes I-IV. Rochester, N.Y.: Susan B. Anthony, 1889; (1881); (1886).
4 vols., thick 8vo.; illustrated with steel engraved portraits; maroon cloth, stamped in blind and gilt.
Edition, inscription, and condition details as follows:
Volume One. Second Edition, with pencil note at front pastedown, Presented by “Susan B. Anthony”; Anthony’s signature tipped-in at preliminary leaf, with ink notation by Mary Anthony): Feb. 15 1820 March 13 - 1906; below is written in ink: These four volumes of 'History of Woman Suffrage' were the result of years of labor by my sister Susan B. Anthony, and was sincerely believed by her to be the richest and best legacy she could leave to the coming generations. Mary S. Anthony Nov. 15 — 1906. Minor insect damage to joints.
Volume Two. Later printing. Susan B. Anthony’s signature tipped-in at preliminary leaf with her dates inked-in below (in another hand); in Mary Anthony’s hand: Perfect equality of rights for women — civil and political is to-day and has been for the past half-century my one demand' Susan B. Anthony. With the pencil notation: To Aristine Fleming. Owner’s signature in pencil at rear endpaper (“Aristine Fleming 1906”); insect damage along joints.
Volume Three. Later printing. Susan B. Anthony’s signature tipped-in at a preliminary leaf with her dates inked-in below. In Mary Anthony’s hand: “When women associate with men in serious matters, as they do now in frivolous, both will grow stronger, and the world’s work will be better done” Susan B. Anthony. Her inscription has soaked through the frontispiece portrait of Susan B. Anthony at the leaf’s verso. Insect damage at front joint.
Volume Four. Anthony, Susan B. and Ida Husted Harper (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage Vol. IV. 1883-1900. Rochester, N.Y., Susan B. Anthony, [1902]. Inscribed by Mary S. Anthony on a preliminary leaf: That the readers of these four volumes of the “History of Woman Suffage” may receive as much added strength & hope in the betterment of the future condition of woman, as the electric current from your battery is suppose to put new life into the bodies of those who come to you for physical ailments, is the hope of / Yours sincerely / Mary S. Anthony.
As Anthony donated many sets of The History Of Woman Suffrage to libraries, most volumes which surface (and ususually surface singly) are ex-library with an array of defects. This set is far nicer than is usually seen.
The Case For Women Suffrage, by Margaret Ladd Franklin, pp. 90-91.
Century Of Struggle, by Eleanor Flexner and Ellen FitzPatrick.
The History Of Woman Suffrage, Vol. VI, by Ida Husted Harper, Editor, pp. 123-126.
Krichmar 1996.
NAW I, pp. 51-57; II, pp. 4-6; III, pp. 342-347.
One Woman, One Vote. Timelines Of American Women’s History, by M.S. Wheeler.
Women And The American Experience, by Nancy Wolock.
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