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BOOKS BY, FOR & ABOUT WOMEN ISBN: 978 1 910156-28-5 Price £10.00 Covers: adapted from items 401 & 462. Brian Lake Janet Nassau ABBOTT ABBOTT, John Stevens Cabot MATERNAL DUTY 1. The Mother at Home; or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated. Revised and corrected by Daniel Walton. 2nd edn. John Mason. Engr. title (1834), printed title, 12pp cata.; text a little spotted. Orig. green patterned cloth, sl. browned paper label; a little rubbed. Labels removed from e.ps. ¶ First published c.1830. Responsibility, maternal authority, the mother’s difficulties, faults and errors, and religious instruction. Abbott was an American pastor, historian, and pedagogical writer. 1835 £45 2. The Mother at Home; ... Revised. R.T.S. Orig. plain brown publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt; sl. marked. Contemp. signature of V.A. Ross Farquarson on leading pastedown. v.g. [c.1855] £35 3. The Mother at Home. 16mo. Halifax: Milner & Sowerby. Front. with short marginal tear. Orig. blue bead-grained cloth, gilt spine. Inscribed ‘Mrs Gow, Cambs, July 1860’, on leading f.e.p. v.g. ¶ Attributed to Jacob Abbott on the titlepage, but actually a slightly revised version of John Abbott’s work. 1858 £30 __________ WOMAN & CRIME 4. ADAM, Hargrave Lee. Woman and Crime. T. Werner Laurie. Half title & titlepage printed in dark blue, illus. with numerous photographic plates, 4pp ads. Orig. dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt; small mark in lower margin of front board, otherwise v.g. ¶ A thorough consideration of woman’s place in the history of crime and punishment, with particular reference to the the penal systems in Paris and London. Dated [1914] in BL. [1914] £50 5. ADAMS, William H. Davenport. Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women: a series of chapters from female biography. 6th edn. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Half title, front., plates; lacks leading f.e.p. Orig. dark green cloth, dec. in black, lettered & with vignette of Mrs Mitford in gilt; v. sl. rubbing. Partially removed booklabel on leading pastedown. a.e.g. A v.g copy. ¶ Includes nineteenth century women of letters (Martineau, Brontë, Lady Morgan, etc.), and historical figures. [c.1887] £35 6. ADDAMS, Jane. The Long Road of Woman’s Memory. FIRST EDITION. New York: The Macmillan Co. Half title, 4pp ads. Orig. dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt; small mark at head of spine, otherwise a v.g. bright copy. ¶ A look at the psychology of memory, and the subconscious desires that lead lead to the distortion of memories. 1916 £58 POVERTY IN CHICAGO’ 7. ADDAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House; with autobiographical notes. Edited by Eva Warner Case. New York: Macmillan & Co. Half title, 2pp ads preceding front. port.; e.ps sl. browned. Orig. brown cloth, lettered in gilt; spine v. sl. dulled. Stamps of Co-operative Union, Manchester. v.g. ¶ Jane Addams, 1860-1935: pacifist, philanthropist and public servant, ‘Chicago’s most useful citizen’. She founded Hull House, a social settlement for impoverished migrants arriving in Chicago, and was also president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in The Hague in 1915. 1923 £25 8. ALDEN, Margaret. Child Life and Labour. 2nd edn, revised. With summary of Children’s Act of 1908. Headley Brothers. (Social Service Handbooks, No. 6.) Orig. grey limp cloth wrappers; a little dusted. v.g. ¶ New preface to this edition. Ensuring the health of children as well as reviewing the legislation on child employment. 1909 £40 ALLEN ‘WOMEN POLICE VOLUNTEERS’ 9. ALLEN, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. Edited and arranged by Julie Helen Heyneman. FIRST EDITION. Chatto & Windus. Half title, front. & 10 plates. Orig. pale blue cloth, lettered in dark blue; small damp mark at head of spine, otherwise a good copy. ¶ ‘Women Police Volunteers’ were first recruited in 1917. 1925 £40 10. ALLINGHAM, Helen. The Homes of Tennyson; painted by Helen Allingham, described by Arthur Paterson. FIRST EDITION. Adam & Charles Black. Half title, col. front. & plates, final ad. leaf & 4pp cata. (Spring 1905). Orig. green dec. cloth; spine sl. faded. t.e.g. .g.v 1905 £50 WOMEN & THE LAW 11. AMOS, Sheldon. Difference of Sex, as a topic of jurisprudence and legislation. FIRST EDITION. Longmans, Green, & Co. Orig. purple cloth by Westleys & Co., borders blocked in blind, front board lettered in gilt; expertly recased, a little faded. With presentation inscription on verso of detached leading f.e.p., ‘Presented by the Author, June 1870’. 43pp. ¶ Amos considers the status of women in society, with respect to marriage, education, employment, prostitution, and political capacity. On the latter point, he holds a particularly enlightened view, declaring ‘the consequences to the State of restricting the political privileges of women are even more pernicious and far-reaching than to the women themselves in their personal capacity’. Sheldon Amos, 1835-1886, was an eminent jurist, and from 1869 chair of jurisprudence at University College London. 1870 £120 12. (ANDERSON, Bessie) (METHUEN, Mary M.C.) The Morning of Life: a memoir of Miss A--n, who was educated for a nun; with many interesting particulars and original letters of Dr. Doyle, late Roman Catholic Bishop of Carlow. By her friend M.M.C.M. 4th thousand. Bath: Binns & Goodwin. Front. port., 16pp cata. Orig. red cloth, front board & spine blocked & lettered in gilt. Gift inscription to Emily Greenwood on leading f.e.p., 1853; Renier booklabel. A v.g. bright copy. [1851] £45 HOME NURSING 13. ANONYMOUS. The Secret of Health. With the story of “The Missing Bag”. By a diplomée of a London hospital. (Port Sunlight, Cheshire: Lever Brothers.) Illus. throughout. Orig. maroon cloth, bevelled boards, front board lettered in gilt; front board a little creased, small superficial cloth tear on back board. 98pp. ¶ BL gives the publisher as Lever Brothers, the manufacturers of Sunlight and Lifebuoy Soaps, based in Cheshire. [c.1895] £40 14. ANONYMOUS. The Secret of Health, and guide to home nursing. Revised and enlarged edition. By a diplomée of a London hospital. Port Sunlight, Cheshire: Lever Brothers Ltd. 3pp commercial ads. Ads on e.ps. Orig. blue cloth, gilt lettering largely rubbed away; unevenly faded. 93pp. [c.1900] £30 ARISTOTLE’S MASTERPIECE 15. ARISTOTLE. The Works of the Famous Philosopher, containing his complete Master-Piece, and family physician, his experienced midwife, ... Printed for J. Smith, High Holborn. Half title, tinted front. & title, tinted childbirth plates, illus.; lacks leading f.e.p. Orig. crimson cloth, red edges. ¶ Full of all sorts of nonsense, but until well into the second half of the 19th century the only readily available guide to sexual reproduction. [c.1850] £35 16. ARTHUR, Timothy Shay. Anna Lee; or, The Maiden, the Wife, and the Mother. Stories for my young countrywomen. W. Nicholson & Sons. Half title, 24pp cata. Orig. red cloth, bevelled boards, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt; a little darkened. ¶ Instructions on conduct in narrative form. [c.1890] £20 ARTHUR 17. ARTHUR, Timothy Shay. The Mother: a story for my young countrywomen. 16mo. Halifax: Milner & Sowerby. Initial ad. leaf, half title, front. Orig. red cloth, blocked in blind & gilt; sl. rubbed. a.e.g. v.g. ¶ A conduct novel for young women. One of three titles, along with The Maiden, and The Wife, published collectively as Anna Lee. By the American popular author, best known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, 1854. 1855 £35 18. ASQUITH, Margot. The Autobiography. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Thornton Butterworth. Half titles, fronts, plates; a couple of gatherings sl. proud vol. I. Plain maroon binder’s cloth, spines lettered in gilt. ¶ There is no indication in the first volume that a second volume was intended. Margaret Tennant married Herbert Asquith in 1894, and encouraged his political ambition to become Prime Minister in 1908. 1920-22 £60 CHILDBIRTH 19. ASTRUC, Jean. L’Art d’Accoucher réduit a ses principes, où L’on expose les pratiques les plus súres & les plus usitées dans les différentes espéces d’accouchemens.