Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question; The Law of Population.
Besant, Annie and Charles Bradlaugh. Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population
Question. (London): International Publishing Company, (1877). Signed, Parker Pillsbury, 1877
at the Publisher’s Preface.
Republication of this pamphlet concerning birth control originally published circa 1837 and
subsequently banned in England in 1876. This issue, with minor changes from the first edition
challenged that banning.
Bound together with:
Besant, Annie. The Law of Population. Its Consequences, and its bearing upon human conduct
and morals. Authorized American from the 25th thousand, English Edition. New York: Asa K.
Butts, 1878.
First American edition.
Two Besant titles bound together, wrappers bound-in, together with an article by William Green
(The History of Marriage), excised from a magazine appearance; the bound volume inscribed to
Parker Pillsbury by his “friend Will.” Pillsbury, an early and active “male feminist,” was
Stanton’s co-editor of The Revolution. He helped to draft the constitution of the feminist
American Equal Rights Association in 1865, and served as vice-president of the New Hampshire
Woman Suffrage Association.
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