American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

Volumes I-III only (of eventually 6). 8vo. Steel engraved frontispieces and plates. (Minor toning.) Original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spines (very minor wear to extremities, light sunning to spines). Provenance: Annie McLean March, by descent to present owner (related by consignor). 

Later edition of the seminal work on women's suffrage, INSCRIBED IN EACH VOLUME BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Volume III bears the warmest sentiment: "Miss Annie McLean Marsh [sic] / with best wishes of / Susan B. Anthony / Rochester / N.Y. / Cincinnati Ohio / Feb. 10. 1889." The Cincinnati Enquirer advertised Anthony's February 10th lecture in their issue on the 9th. One of the Sunday Afternoon Lectures of the Unity Club held at the Grand Opera House with the subject, "Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot." A short review was included in the February 11th issue of the Enquirer: "Miss Anthony was well into her subject, making a stirring appeal on behalf of the great mass of working-girls as distinguished from those under the protection of brothers, fathers and husbands." The 1880 Census lists Annie March as a 40-year-old music teacher living in Cincinnati.