A collection of seventeen titles relating to women's rights,...

Hammer

£380

A collection of seventeen titles relating to women's rights, women in industry, working women etc, including Olive Schreiner: 'Woman and Labour', Toronto, Henry Frowde, 1911, 1st Canadian edition, 283pp, original cloth gilt. Feminist treatise on the gendered division of labour across time and cultures by the South African writer Olive Schreiner (1855-1920). In this work, Schreiner investigates the discrepancy between the labour of woman and her rewards from the dawn of humanity to her contemporary times. Includes an early critique of the gender pay gap; Right Hon. Herbert Samuel: 'Maternity Letters from Working-Women Collected by the Women's Co-Operative Guild', London, G. Bell & sons, 1916, 3rd impression, frontis + 3 plates from photos and 3 facsimile letters as called for, original cloth; Ivy Pinchbeck: 'Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850', L, Routledge, 1930, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'The Quarterly Review. Vol. LXXV. Published in December, 1844, & March, 1845.', L, John Murray, 1845, includes Article V 'The Rights of Women', pp94-125, contemporary half calf; A Lady [i.e. Maria Wilson?]: 'The workwoman's guide, containing instructions ... in cutting out and completing those articles of wearing apparel, &c. which are usually made at home...', London; Birmingham: Simpkin, Marshall & Co; Thomas Evans, 1838, viii, 303 pages, engraved frontis + 23 engraved plates as called for, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining backstrip; 'Meet the Members. A Record of the Timber Corps of the Women's Land Army', Bristol, Bennet Brothers, [1944?], 76pp + 12 full page illustrations from photos as called for, orig. cloth, dust wrapper; Joan Beauchamp: 'Women Who Work', 1937, 1st edition, orig. cloth; Elaine Burton: 'What of the Women: A Study of Women in Wartime', L, Frederick Muller, 1941, 1st edition, orig. cloth, scarce; plus 8 others Women's Land Army, nursing etc (17)