Rights and Wrongs of Woman. A Poem by [WOMEN] [ANTI-FEMINISM] GLOVER, H.C. and J. Walter Stoops - 1874

New York: J. Walter Stoops, 1874. Reprint. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's orange, blind-embossed cover lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; [2],72pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, pictorial advertisements throughout, the earliest printed in red. Boards a bit scuffed with tiny loss towards bottom of spine, extremities a bit sunned, else Very Good, internally fresh. A list of subscribers provided on title page verso. Long poem first published a year earlier, advertisements printed on rectos, the poem itself printed on versos only. Text lauds the female sex while arguing against women's rights: "Ye dames whose souls with high ambition glow, / Who loud proclaim that woman's lot is low; / Is't low forsooth, to reign the queen of home? / To rear a race for great events to come? / To train the minds that guide the ship of State? / To be the mothers of the good and great? / O, false ambition, thus the angels fall..." Opposite these lines the reader can peruse advertisements for Henry Lee Dickerman, dentist, and A.K. Rankin, Photo-Artist ("Children's Likenesses a Specialty"), while on the following page are advertisements for a local undertaker, cigar store, and grocer. The poem ends on p. 66, and is followed by a brief essay by Stoops on "Courtship and Marriage." KINNARD (Antifeminism in American Thought) 154.