TUKER, Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker (text). W. MATTHISON (illust.). Cambridge. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1907.
Large 8vo. Original blue cloth with a design printed in pale green and brown and blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board, all letters blocked in gilt, with a gilt top edge; pp. xx, 395, 8, publisher's advertisements, pull-out map at the end of the volume; 77 colour-plate illustrations captioned on the tissue guards; apart from even toning to endpapers, as usual, a near-fine copy.
First edition. The author is actually a remarkable woman. 'In the early part of the twentieth century she became involved with the women's suffrage movement as well as the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church. Her articles on Catholicism were published in a wide range of periodicals such as 'Hibbert's Journal' and the 'Fortnightly Review'. By 1911 she had become a member of both the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society and the Women's Social & Political Union. She published a number of articles in the pages of 'Votes for Women', signing herself MART, as well as being asked by Christabel Pankhurst to lobby MPs on a number of occasions. She took part in the series of major marches that took place in London in 1908 and 1910 and was in the Joint procession that took place in 1911' (Archiveshub.org).
Inman 11.
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