History of Woman Suffrage. Volumes I, II, and III. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. (Bound in full calf leather) With engraved frontispieces in each volume and numerous steel engraving throughout the 3 volumes. Note: Each volume has a signed presentation by Susan B. Anthony.

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Attractively bound in full calf leather with moroccan labels on the spines. The spines have been rebacked with new leather, but the original moroccan labels have been retained. The leather front and rear boards of the three volumes with all their rubbing and abrading have been handsomely restored by the Green Dragon Bindery. Very clean and tight throughout with engraved frontispieces in each volume and numerous steel engraving throughout the 3 volumes. Anthony s History is the "bible" of the women's suffrage campaign. A very handsome set with quite wonderful inscriptions by Susan B. Anthony in each volume. Here are the inscriptions in the 3 volumes: Inscription in volume I: "To Miss Mary Coonley on her wedding day Easter Monday 1892. With the hope that her expectations may be more than realized in her new relations. From her loving friend and elder sister Susan B. Anthony Rochester, N.Y. "Inscription in volume II: " Miss Mary Coonley with the best wishes of her sincere friend Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, NY. April 18, 1892." Inscription in volume III: "Miss Mary Coonley. Chicago, Ill With the love and faith of her sincere friend Susan B. Anthony Rochester, N.Y. April 18, 1892." Provenance: This three-volume set of HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE was a wedding gift from Susan B. Anthony to Mary Letchworth Avery Coonley, the granddaughter and daughter of Anthony's good friends and "sister" suffragettes, Susan Look Avery and Lydia Avery Coonley Ward. Each volume was inscribed with a different personal message by Anthony to Mary on the occasion of Mary's wedding to Thomas Hollis (the nephew of famed American sculptor Daniel Chester French). With these books in tow, Mary and Thomas Hollis settled in the historic town of Concord, Massachusetts, where the famed "Shot heard round the world" had been fired in the Battle of Concord on April 19th, 1775, and where writer Louisa May Alcott became the first woman in Concord to register to vote. This set has a further backstory marvelously connecting it to centuries of American History. A complete letter of provenance by Concord historian Jaimee Joroff is available upon request. History of Woman Suffrage offers "a vast compendium of reminiscences, reports, arguments, and commentaries unevenly shaped by the logic of the suffrage cause and its leading proponents. The making of the History was at once a profoundly personal and self-consciously political venture. Few social movements have been graced with leaders who could assemble, organise, and comment on such a vast amount of information [and] the prime mover for the History was Susan B. Anthony" (Buhle, p. xvii-xviii). Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leaders of National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), initiated the project of writing a history of the women's suffrage movement in 1876. The project dominated their lives for much of the next decade, although Anthony in particular also maintained a busy schedule of lecturing and other women's suffrage activities. Originally envisioned as a modest publication that would take only four months to write,[1] it evolved into a work of more than 5700 pages written over a period of 41 years. It was completed in 1922, long after the deaths of Stanton and Anthony in 1902 and 1906 respectively.In the introduction the authors wrote: "We hope the contribution we have made may enable some other hand in the future to write a more complete history of 'the most momentous reform that has yet been launched on the world the first organized protest against the injustice which has brooded over the character and destiny of one-half the human race.'"[2] The first volume is dedicated to the memory of pioneering women in the movement, with Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), prominently listed first. The first three volumes cover the history of the movement from its beginnings to 1885. N° de ref. del artículo 1300

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