First Ed. Six Volume Set of the History of the Woman Suffrage Movement
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The History of Woman Suffrage, All 6 Volumes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage - FIRST EDITIONS REBOUND
This six-volume Presentation Set was a gift to the Moline Public Library from the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and has a Susan B. Anthony autograph page.
THE HISTORY OF WOMEN SUFFRAGE - ORIGINALLY IN THREE, THEN A FOURTH VOLUME AND LATER THEY WERE EXTENDED TO SIX VOLUMES
THIS IS ALL SIX WHICH HAVE BEEN PROFESSIONALLY REBOUND AND ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
THESE WERE A PRESENTATION SET WITH A LABEL SAYING: ”A GIFT TO THE MOLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY FROM THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION “ SEE THE IMAGE.
ANOTHER IMAGE SHOWS AN INSERTED NOTE FROM SUSAN B. ANTHONY REQUESTING FEEDBACK OF ANY ERRORS SO THEY MAY BE CORRECTED IN THE NEXT ADDITION.
VOL. 1 & 2 ARE COPYRIGHTED IN 1881 BY ELIZABETH STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, and MATILDA GAGE.,THEN THERE IS ANOTHER COPYRIGHT 1886 BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
VOL. 3 IS 1886, VOL. 4 IS 1902, VOL. 5 IS 1922, & VOL. 6 IS 1922 .
IT IS HARD TO FIND A COMPLETE SET, MUCH LESS A SET IN GREAT CONDITION THAT WAS PERSONALLY GIFTED TO THE LIBRARY BY THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
THE BINDINGS ARE SUPER TIGHT. THE PAGES ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH THE ORIGINAL TISSUE PAPER COVERING THE IMAGES STILL INTACT.
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Complete History of Woman Suffrage Volumes One through Six
Description by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica
History of Woman Suffrage, a publication that appeared, over the course of some 40 years, in six volumes and nearly 6,000 pages chronicling the American woman suffrage movement in great, but incomplete, detail.
It consists of speeches and other primary documents, letters, and reminiscences, as well as impassioned feminist commentary. The project was conceived in 1876 by American suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage as a brief pamphlet that could be assembled in about two months.
Gage, Stanton, and Anthony, members of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), wrote and edited the first three volumes. Although they solicited contributions from Lucy Stone, a founder of the more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), little information about the latter organization was provided. As a result, the first three volumes are somewhat weighted and thus an incomplete history of the beginnings of the suffrage movement.
The final three volumes, edited by Anthony’s close associate, Ida Husted Harper, reflect the conservative turn taken by the woman suffrage movement during the years after the publication of Volume III. Harper was a highly selective reporter, excluding references to important people and ideas that did not conform to her assessment of the movement’s objectives. Nevertheless, the History of Woman Suffrage remains the major primary source for information on the suffrage movement.
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