Volume I only. 8vo. Frontispiece with 11 additional steel engraved plates. (Some toning to text pages). Publisher's burgundy textured cloth gilt (minor wear to extremities, old paper label affixed to front board). Provenance: Annie McLean March, by descent to present owner (related by consignor). 

SALESMAN'S OR EDITOR'S COPY, SIGNED WITH "CORRECTION" BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY. On the title page, ostensibly for Volume I of what would become a 6 volume work, Anthony has crossed out the publisher's name and address, writing beneath: "Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison St. / Rochester." Although volumes I & II were indeed by Fowler & Wells of New York, volumes III & IV were published by Anthony in Rochester. The book itself consists of the frontispiece portrait of Lucretia Mott followed by the title page of Vol. I, a dedication page, 11 plates featuring steel-engraved portraits of women prominent in the suffrage movement, preface (2pp.), contents (4pp.), a portion of the Introduction (4pp.), eight selected leaves from the main text, a publisher's advertisement for the book, and 3 ledger leaves for potential subscribers. The composition suggests a salesman's copy used to entice subscribers or book stores. The "correction" by Anthony suggests that it may have been issued to Anthony in her role as an editor for approval of the plates and printing, possibly for the second edition published by Anthony in 1887. RARE: no other copies of such a sample copy could be located.