Providence, R. I. J. A. & R. A. Reid, Publishers, [1888].
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Hardcover. First edition. Folio, Pp. [1-2] 3 [4] 5-102 [103] [104: tailpiece]. Profusely illustrated, mostly full-page, a few double-paged. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Light wear at the edges, a bit soiled and spotted, and with a faint stain to the front free endpaper and title leaf, but a tight, internally clean very good copy. The first book by Gilman, one of the leading intellectuals of the women's movement in America and best known for *The Yellow Wall Paper*, her semi-autobiographical tale of psychological horror. Gilman was trained as an artist and contributes detailed text descriptions of classical style art works and printed illustrations. A much better than usual example of this title, and very scarce thus.
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