A SUPERB ASSOCIATION (CIVIL RIGHTS.) ANTHONY, SUSAN B. The History of Women Suffrage. Engraved portraits with tissue guards. 878, 952, 1013, 1144 pages. 4 volumes, uniform tall, thick Royal 8vo's. Recently bound in period style quarter black morocco and marbled paper-covered boards; spines gilt with five raised bands; institutional stamps on the page-edges. inscribed by susan b. anthony to howard university in the final three volumes. Due to the acidic nature of the paper these volumes were printed on, the pages on which the presentations appear as well as the title pages have been backed with archival paper; a couple of pages have been re-margined. Aside from the stamps on the edges, there are no library markings to speak of. New York, 1881, 1882, 1887, (1902)
first editions, inscribed in the final 3 volumes by susan b. anthony: Volume II 'Howard University with kind regards of Susan B. Anthony, Riis House, Washington D.C., March 4, 1887,' volume III 'To the Howard University with best wishes of Susan B. Anthony, the Riis House, Washington D.C. 4/87,' and with a full page presentation in volume IV 'The Library Howard University. With the hope that every student may make himself or herself fully acquainted with all the steps of progress women have made during the last twenty years—and that they may be in the first ranks when another score of years shall roll 'round, with hope and faith, I am yours kindly, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y, June 12, 1900.' Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), champion of women's rights and the abolition of slavery, began circulating anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony had met in 1845, when Douglass was on his first speaking tour, following publication of his Narrative. And it was at the urging of Susan B. Anthony and the Post family that Douglass and his wife Anna moved to Rochester in 1847. The advocates for women's rights were quite often the same people that were fighting slavery. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others were brought together by people like William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society. And while some men in the AASS opposed women in their ranks, this only served to strengthen women's resolve. In the end, the women's rights struggle and that of abolition were simply part of the larger 19th century struggle for universal human rights. Provenance: Dorothy Porter Wesley to the consignor.
