History of Woman Suffrage, The, Vols. I-IV. WITH RELATED MATERIAL, see item
All Four Volumes Inscribed
to Emily Howard
(Anthony, Susan B., co-editor) History of Woman Suffrage. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Illustrated with Steel Engravings. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1 1848-1861. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881.
Large 8vo.; frontispiece portrait of Frances Wright; other illustrations throughout (one plate lacking); red cloth stamped in gilt; some light foxing to frontispiece and throughout; light wear to extremities. Housed together with Volume II In a specially made beige cloth folding box with red morocco label.
Together with:
(Anthony, Susan B., co-editor) History of Woman Suffrage. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Illustrated with Steel Engravings. In Three Volumes. Vol. II 1861-1876. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1882.
Large 8vo.; frontispiece portrait of Anna Dickinson, other illustrations throughout; interior fine considering the book’s age; red cloth stamped in gilt, light waterstaining to front cover and spine. First blank with extensive notes by the owner, listing every mention of Clarina Irena Howard Nichols and keying them to the text. Housed together with Volume I In a specially made beige cloth folding box with red morocco label.
Together with:
(Anthony, Susan B., co-editor) History of Woman Suffrage. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Illustrated with Steel Engravings. In Three Volumes. Vol. III 1876-1885. Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1887.
Large 8vo.; frontispiece portrait of Phoebe W. Cousins, other illustrations throughout; title page and first blanks lightly offset, otherwise interior fine considering the book’s age; red cloth stamped in gilt, heavy waterstaining to exterior edge of the front cover, not effecting text. Printed notice from Susan B. Anthony tipped into blank before frontispiece asking for any corrections noticed by readers “as such information will be used in a second edition.” Second blank with extensive notes by the owner, listing every mention of Clarina Irena Howard Nichols and keying them to the text. Housed together with Volume IV in a specially made beige cloth folding box with red morocco label.
Together with:
Anthony, Susan B. and Ida Husted Harper, editors. The History of Woman Suffrage. Illustrated with Copperplate and Photogravure Engravings. In Four Volumes. Volume IV. 1883-1900. Rochester, New York: Susan B. Anthony, (1902).
Thick 8vo.; frontispiece portrait of Anthony; other illustrations throughout; interior fine; hinges tender; covers lightly used but generally bright; various clippings from contemporary newspapers about Anthony loosely laid in. Housed together with Volume III in a specially made beige cloth folding box with red morocco label.
A presentation copy, inscribed: Miss Emily Howard/Brookline-Massachusetts-/This huge volume IV is presented to you because of your contribution in 1900 – to prepare “Standing Alone” -- and your cheerful transfer of the same to the printing of this book – and because of glory in every woman who works for the redemption of her sex from the degradation of disenfranchisement – /Sincerely yours/Susan B. Anthony/11 Madison Street/Rochester/N.Y./1820 Feb, 15, 1903.
An extremely rare complete set of the first edition of Anthony’s landmark history of the suffrage movement, on which she labored for over ten years, both alone and with her various collaborators. (She would die only three years after the release of the final volume.) The History of Woman Suffrage is, amazingly, still the most definitive and thorough work on the subject of the early feminist movement and the struggle for women’s right to vote. Although it was reprinted shortly after its first edition, no modern version of this work exists and used copies of the first and second editions are competitively sought after as an invaluable resource by today’s feminist scholars, though f
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