Worthy Women of Our First Century

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1877. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Purple cloth stamped in black and gilt; brown coated endpapers; 328pp. Bookplate of Mary Morison; bookseller's ticket of W. B. Clarke & Carruth, Boston. 1877 ownership inscription to flyleaf. Rubbed and scuffed, with minor wear to cloth, spine sunned, internally clean.

Short biographies of notable women from Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania, written for the "Women's Department of the Centennial Commission.