Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £260 |
SUFFRAGETTES - Helen BLACKBURN (1842-1903). Women's Suffrage. A Record of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the British Isles with Biographical Sketches of Miss Becker. London: Williams & Norgate, 1902. 8vo (190 x 130mm). Half title, publisher's woodcut monogram on title, half tone plates, 3 folding tables (one folding table crudely repaired with adhesive tape). Original green buckram, the spine lettered in gilt, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, some scratching to the lower cover, without a dust-jacket). Provenance: E. Vaughan (old signature on the front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. With Hall Caine's Our Girls. Their Work for the War ... With 15 Illustrations from Photographs by the Ministry of Munitions (London, 1916, 8vo, full-page half tone illustrations, lacks all after p.126, original cloth, stained and spotted, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, including a printed presentation leaf bound in at the front stating "From One of Our Girls To One of Our Boys ... Wishing you a Happy Christmas And a Glad New Year", with a space for a photograph of the sender); with a collection of 15 monochrome and coloured SUFFRAGETTE POSTCARDS, some supportive, some disparaging to the cause; and a suffragette enamel badge worded "National Union of Womens [sic] Suffrage Societies Constitutional Non Party", with pin. (18)