[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Susan B. Anthony HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE

[Charles Agvent]

ANTHONY, Susan B. & HARPER, Ida Husted. HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 
Volume IV. New York: Susan B. Anthony, (1902). First Edition. The fourth 
volume, eventually complete in six volumes, in publisher's purple cloth. 
Illustrated with copperplate and photogravure engravings. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by Anthony on her birthday, filling the front free endpaper: "Mrs 
Mariana Wright Chapman/Brooklyn -- New York --/This Huge Volume is 
presented/to you in recognition of the/kindly and valuable services 
rendered/Mrs. Harper in the preparation of the/New York Chapter -- and 
all your/good works for the good Cause/we so dearly love -- by/Your 
affectionate friend & coworker/Susan B. Anthony/17 Madison St./Rochester 
-- N. Y./1820 -- Feb. 15 -- 1903." Owner name in ink at the top of the 
front pastedown. Professionally rebacked retaining the original spine. 
Near Fine and an important Association copy.

Mariana Wright Chapman was a prominent New York Quaker suffragist who 
was President of the Women's Suffrage Association of Brooklyn and later 
President of the New York State Suffrage Association, Anthony's home 
state. As a charter member of the New York League for Political 
Education, she was instrumental in founding the Friends Equal Rights 
Association. Chapman corresponded frequently with the leaders of the 
Suffrage movement. (#019587)        $8,500

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