Laurens editions

1885 · 29414 — Boston Massachusetts: D. Lothrop & Co 1885. Cloth. Near Fine. 4 5-423 1 pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titling and debossed wave pattern in black ink. Previous owner's name J. V. Hannrd and date Sept '92 on front flyleaf with initials at head of title pages. A bright clean copy with minor spotting to the page edges and a few pages with foxing internally. Corner tips worn scratch to rear panel spine still bright. A much nicer copy than usually found. Cloth. "Anna Laurens Dawes May 14 1851 – September 25 1938 was an American author and anti-suffragist.She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes October 30 1816 – February 5 1903 a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> Dawes created the Wednesday Morning Club in 1879 and was its president for sixty years. She later became a trustee of Smith College 1889–1896. In 1883 she secured governmental aid for the Leif exposition to search for Major General A. W. Greely who had been missing in the Arctic for three years. Dawes served on the board of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1892–1894 as well as the St. Louis Exposition of 1902–1904.<br /> <br /> Notable works include How We are Governed 1885 The Modern Jew: His Present and his Future 1886 A United States Prison 1886 An Unknown Nation 1888 Charles Sumner 1892 and The Indian as Citizen 1917." Wikipedia. D. Lothrop & Co unknown