SUSAN B. ANTHONY
(1820 - 1906) American reformer active in suffrage, temperance and abolitionist movements instrumental in obtaining women the right to vote. Extraordinary set of her work History of Women Suffrage, Charles Mann Printing Co., Rochester, 1889, all four volumes with every volume inscribed and signed on the front flyleaf by Anthony! Volume I, covering the period from 1848-1861, is inscribed: "Miss Mary Garrett Baltimore, Maryland - From her sincere friend & coworker Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 5, 1904". Volume II, covering the period 1861-1876 is inscribed: "Miss Mary Garrett Baltimore, Maryland - With the sincere regards of her grateful friend and coworker Susan B. Anthony Rochester N.Y. Dec. 5, 1904". Volume III covers the period 1876-1885 and is inscribed: "Miss Mary Garrett Baltimore, Maryland - This volume III finishes the work of Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton and Mrs. [Matilda Joslyn] Gage to 1882 - May the future historians be as tru and faithful in recording what comes after - is the Hope of a grateful friend and coworker - Susan B. Anthony Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 5, 1904". Volume IV, printed by the Hollenbeck Press, Indianapolis, 1902, bears the finest inscription with the first mention of a "woman movement": "Miss Mary Garrett Baltimore, Maryland - This volume was prepared [?] a painstaking worker - Mrs. Ida H. Harper - and is a monument to her - as the first three are to Mrs. Stanton & Mrs. Gage - and that the facts of the women movement are herein recorded - in these four huge books - is cause of the profoundest pleasure to your friend & coworker - Susan B. Anthony Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 5, 1904". Mary Garrett (1854-1915) was a tireless worker for the rights of women. In 1885 she helped establish what would become Bryn Mawr College, and the Women's Industrial Exchange of Baltimore, devoted to helping indigent women sell their wares. She was instrumental in funding Johns Hopkins Medical School with the condition that women be allowed to study there on equal terms with men. In 1906 the National American Woman Suffrage Association convened in Baltimore, at Garrett's urging. All four signed books are in superb condition, binding tight, no toning, rebound in medium brown calf with raised spine and gilt lettering, original marbleized pastedowns used in the rebound copies. Single such signed volumes are difficult to obtain; complete signed sets are unheard-of.