[Rarebooks] FS: Handmade Ancestry Book of Woman's Suffrage Activist "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones with over 200 watercolors

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog containing 45 items related to WOMEN AND THEIR 
QUEST FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, just posted on our website.

JONES, Rosalie Gardiner. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): BOOK OF THE 
ANCESTRY OF ROSALIE GARDINER JONES with Numerous Original Watercolors. 
Cold Spring Harbor, LI, July 1908 & May 1909. First Edition. A folio 
(10-3/4" x 13-1/4") volume apparently handbound in full gilt-decorated 
green morocco, the binding signed "R.G.J. 1909" on the rear inside 
panel, with pages numbered up to 499. While many pages are blank, there 
are 105 pages with text surrounded by decorative ORIGINAL watercolor 
borders, often quite elaborate, and 101 pages without text but with 
similar decorative borders, almost always on the recto though some pages 
have writing and/or art on the verso as well. There are also 5 small 
watercolors pasted in. The album was compiled by Rosalie Gardiner Jones, 
a wealthy socialite who gained fame as "General Jones" when she 
organized and led a women's suffrage march in 1912 from New York to 
Albany and another to Washington, D.C. Jones worked with Harriet Stanton 
Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter, but found the American 
suffragist movement too genteel and gravitated toward the more militant 
English feminists who called themselves "suffragettes." Perhaps her most 
famous "event" occurred in 1913 when she was taken up in a Wright 
Brothers biplane over Staten Island to toss suffrage leaflets. As the 31 
May 1913 issue of The New York Times reported: "Gen. Rosalie did not 
show a sign of fear as she took her seat in the biplane, seized a steel 
rod, the only thing to hold to, with her left hand, had her skirts tied 
down with a little piece of blue string, and, with a bunch of yellow 
Votes-for-Women leaflets in her right hand, nodded a smiling goodbye to 
the crowd below." Jones lived well beyond the passing of the 19th 
Amendment by Congress in 1919 and died in 1978 at the age of 94. A 
number of pieces of ephemera laid in including photographs of the family 
home as well as photographs of Jones. Minor wear to binding. Near Fine 
and unique. (#016175)        $3,500.00

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