[Rarebooks] FS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 2 volumes, EACH INSCRIBED by Anthony to a prominent suffragist & animal rights activist

[Charles Agvent]

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

(ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted. THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. 
ANTHONY INCLUDING PUBLIC ADDRESSES, HER OWN LETTERS AND MANY FROM HER 
CONTEMPORARIES DURING FIFTY YEARS. A STORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE 
STATUS OF WOMAN. Indianapolis & Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899 
& 1898. First Edition. The first two volumes of three, with the last not 
published until 1908, two years after Anthony's death. Original full 
brown-burgundy morocco with a gilt medallion profile portrait of Anthony 
on the front panel of each volume, recently and sympathetically rebacked 
with similar color morocco leather; all edges gilt. Illustrated with 
frontispiece portraits of Anthony and other plates and facsimiles. Each 
volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by this principal leader of the woman 
suffrage movement in the United States on the front endpapers to another 
well-known suffragist. In the first volume, Anthony has written: "Yes 
indeed, Mrs. Julia L. Langdon Barber/I will write your name upon 
this/fly-leaf together with my own for/the benefit of the grand-daughter 
-- when/she is grown up to appreciate the worth/of each--/Julia L. 
Langdon Barber--/Belmont -- Washington, D. C.--/Susan B. Anthony -- 
Rochester N.Y./May 22, 1901--." Anthony has also INSCRIBED the second 
volume: "Julia L. Langdon Barber--/Belmont -- Washington, D. C.--/Susan 
B. Anthony/17 Madison Street -- Rochester N.Y." Books inscribed by this 
great American have become quite scarce. Fine copies with a fine 
association.

Julia L. Langdon was a prominent suffragist in Washington as well as one 
of the city's premier hostesses of the Golden Age. She married Amzi 
Lorenzo Barber in 1871; she was the daughter of a prominent N.Y. land 
developer, and her husband, who had been in charge of the normal 
department at Howard University, tried his own hand at developments in 
Washington. He developed the highly restricted Le Droit Park 
neighborhood just off Florida Avenue, and was soon to be the owner of 
Barber Asphalt Company; he became known as the "Asphalt King," and by 
the 1880s his firm was the world's largest supplier of asphalt. Barber 
was to later buy the infant Locomobile enterprise from Francis and 
Freelan Stanley in 1898; by 1900, over 1600 cars were sold, but the 
car's indifferent sales in future years eventually stripped Barber of 
much of his personal wealth. In 1880 the Barbers bought 120 acres along 
Florida Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, where their lavish Queen 
Anne home, "Belmont," was built (It was torn down in 1915 after the 
deaths of Amzi and Julia Barber to make way for the Clifton Terrace 
development.). Julia L. Langdon Barber was a Life Member of the National 
American Women Suffrage Association and a longtime friend of Anthony; 
after the 1902 National American Convention held at the First 
Presbyterian Church in Washington, Anthony spent the following week at 
the Barber home. In the third volume of Harper's book, she is cited, 
along with Mrs. John Henderson and Anthony, in the incorporation in 1900 
of the Standing Fund to help with the work of enfranchising women. 
Barber was also a friend of Mark Twain, whom she met on the steamship 
"Quaker City" in 1867 during the trip which Twain chronicled in THE 
INNOCENTS ABROAD. Barber had taken a leading part in various public 
movements and was an ardent suffragist and a leading member of the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She was long the 
terror of cruelly inclined drivers in Washington. She often took her 
stand on top of the high tower of Belmont which overlooks a wide range 
of the city and watched for horses which were being treated cruelly. She 
always kept an automobile at her door and frequently hurried in it to 
aid of the suffering horses. She appeared in police court a number of 
times against men who mistreated animals. (#016095)        $7,500.00

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