Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(SUFFRAGETTES.) ANTHONY, SUSAN B. History of Woman Suffrage. Each of 4 volumes Signed and Inscribed, to philanthropist and fellow suffragist Mary Garrett. Volumes I-IV (of 4 published during her lifetime, mixed editions). 4to, uniformly rebound in calf; minor scattered chipping, minor toning at edges throughout first volume. Rochester, 1889-1902; inscriptions: Rochester, 1904

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I: "Miss Mary Garrett, Baltimore Maryland, From her sincere friend & coworker, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester N.Y., Dec. 5, 1904."
II: ". . . [W]ith the sincere regards of her grateful friend and coworker . . . ."
III: ". . . This volume III finishes the work of Mrs. Stanton & Mrs. Gage--to 1882. May the future historians be as true and faithful in recording what comes after--is the Hope of a grateful friend & coworker . . . ."
IV: ". . . This volume was prepared by a painstaking worker--Mrs. Ida H. Harper--and is a monument to her--as the first three are to Mrs. Stanton & Mrs. Gage--and that the facts of the woman movement are herein recorded--in these four huge books--is cause of the profoundest pleasure to your friend & coworker . . . ."
Garrett (1854-1915) was the daughter of railroad executive and banker John Work Garrett and co-founder of Bryn Mawr College.