[Rarebooks] FS: Willard, American Women

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Willard, Frances E. (Elizabeth) and Livermore, Mary A. (Ashton Rice), 
eds. AMERICAN WOMEN. FIFTEEN HUNDRED BIOGRAPHIES WITH OVER 1,400 
PORTRAITS. A COMPREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE LIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS 
OF AMERICAN WOMEN DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY [TWO VOLUMES]. New 
York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, (1897). 824 pp. Illus. with b/w 
photos. Sm. 4to. Decorated paper wrappers. Revised edition "Newly 
revised, with the addition of a classified index; also many new 
biographies and recent portraits together with a number of full page 
illustrations."

The second, largest, and finest of these biographical compendiums, 
formerly published in 1893 as "A Woman of the Century."

Frances Willard (1839-98) was president of the Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union and a leading advocate of social reform in Victorian 
America.... "As one of the foremost women of the late 19th c. Willard 
united the divergent strains of Victorian reform, setting the stage 
for the women's involvement in the Progressive reforms of the 
twentieth century that culminated in women's suffrage and 
prohibition," (Weber, American Woman's History, p. 663). Mary 
Livermore (1820-1905) worked for the Sanitary Commission during the 
Civil War and was later instrumental in founding the American Woman 
Suffrage Association, serving as its vice president and editor of its 
journal.

Wrappers rubbed, spines worn especially at the joints, title pages 
reattached with some tearing still present, volume 1 with repair to 
inner margin of endpapers and a small marginal dampstain to the 
fore-edge of the first five leaves, all edges a bit darkened, but 
binding solid, contents very good.   [32762] $750.00


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