ANTHONY, Susan B., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Gage, & Ida Husted Harper.

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History of Woman Suffrage. A complete set, rare in any configuration, of the "bible" of the women's suffrage campaign; a mixed edition with all but the first two volumes in first edition, the four lifetime volumes in a handsome contemporary calf binding, the last two volumes near-fine in the original cloth and presented by the publishers to the Davenport Library of Bath, New York - fitting given Anthony's determination to see the History incorporated into institutional libraries.Given the History's extended and expensive publication history, it is uncommon to find it complete in six volumes or uniformly bound. We can trace three appearances of six-volume sets in auction records, none within the last decade, all of which were ex-library.History of Woman Suffrage offers "a vast compendium of reminiscences, reports, arguments, and commentaries unevenly shaped by the logic of the suffrage cause and its leading proponents... The making of the History was at once a profoundly personal and self-consciously political venture. Few social movements have been graced with leaders who could assemble, organise, and comment on such a vast amount of information [and] the prime mover for the History was Susan B. Anthony" (Buhle, p. xvii-xviii). The History was a monumentally expensive project. In the case of the first two volumes, published in 1881 and 1882, the New York publisher Fowler and Wells covered the paper, presswork, binding and advertising. Anthony and her co-authors paid for the c

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