COURTHOPE, William John. Ludibria Lunæ; or, The Wars of the Women and the Gods
COURTHOPE, William John. Ludibria Lunæ; or, The Wars of the Women and the Gods. An allegorical burlesque. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1869. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The scarce first edition of this collection of poems in four books, “the world having now arrived at social perfection, Women alone are excluded from the Rights of Nature”. The protagonist then begins a Women’s Rights convention and proposes to lead a colony to Mars. Each ‘book’ with an ‘argument’ to commence the verse. A slip from a previous bookseller slip states ‘the poem qualifies form classification as either Interplanetary or Feminist Verse’ A very good copy, the cloth clean, spine darkened, rubbed at corners and spine tips. Binding tight and square. The contents clean and usually fine, some light scattered foxing throughout, but often fine. Scarce.
COURTHOPE, William John. Ludibria Lunæ; or, The Wars of the Women and the Gods. An allegorical burlesque. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1869. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The scarce first edition of this collection of poems in four books, “the world having now arrived at social perfection, Women alone are excluded from the Rights of Nature”. The protagonist then begins a Women’s Rights convention and proposes to lead a colony to Mars. Each ‘book’ with an ‘argument’ to commence the verse. A slip from a previous bookseller slip states ‘the poem qualifies form classification as either Interplanetary or Feminist Verse’ A very good copy, the cloth clean, spine darkened, rubbed at corners and spine tips. Binding tight and square. The contents clean and usually fine, some light scattered foxing throughout, but often fine. Scarce.
COURTHOPE, William John. Ludibria Lunæ; or, The Wars of the Women and the Gods. An allegorical burlesque. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1869. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The scarce first edition of this collection of poems in four books, “the world having now arrived at social perfection, Women alone are excluded from the Rights of Nature”. The protagonist then begins a Women’s Rights convention and proposes to lead a colony to Mars. Each ‘book’ with an ‘argument’ to commence the verse. A slip from a previous bookseller slip states ‘the poem qualifies form classification as either Interplanetary or Feminist Verse’ A very good copy, the cloth clean, spine darkened, rubbed at corners and spine tips. Binding tight and square. The contents clean and usually fine, some light scattered foxing throughout, but often fine. Scarce.