A GREAT MOTHER SKETCHES OF MADAM WILLARD by Willard, Frances E. ; Norton, Minerva Brace - 1894

Evanston, Illinois: National Woman's Temperance Union, 1905. First edition thus; 1905 copyright, no other dates. White cloth boards, silver stamped cover design and decoration, spine titles, moderate rub. Pages very good. Bind good; hinges intact. Classic beautiful portrait plates throughout. Frontispiece portrait plates of mother and daughter. A Great Mother: Sketches of Madam Willard by Her Daughter, Frances E. Willard, and Her Kinswoman, Minerva Brace Norton. A biography of Mary T. H. Willard by her daughter, the noted feminist and women's suffrage activist, Frances E. Willard. Dedicated to the White Ribbon Women of the world. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898. She developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the… Read More

Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1894. 1894. First Edition hardcover. THIS IS THE ACTUAL 1894 FIRST EDITION, NOT A FACSIMILE OR MORE RECENT REPRINT. Binding: Beveled covers; silver designs and lettering; decorative endpapers; frontispiece and tissue overlay and plates throughout; 297 pages. Condition of binding: Lightly age toned (darker at spine), soiling, tiny stains at foot of spine, wear to top/foot of spine and light shelf wear (tiny bumps), and small faint discoloration areas. Edges toned with two small stains on top edge. First and rear hinges partially cracked but holding nicely. Frontispiece/plates are clear, vivid. Pages are lightly age toned (with isolated areas of old insect stains), offsets to pgs. 118 and 119 (due to old, long-gone paper or bookmark saved in this area). A few pencil underlines and brackets. Else, overall Very Good. Free of page tears, text very readable. Not a former library book. Very collectible. This is a wonderful book dedicated to the White… Read More