$240
The Bar Sinister and Licit Love. The First Biennial Proceedings of the Legitimation League . London: Reeves, 1895. Octavo, edited by Oswald Dawson, portrait frontispiece of Edith Lanchester, two additional portraits between pages 152 and 153 as called for on the contents page, and a portrait of Lillian Harman just inside the back cover, in publisher's limp card covers, printed boldly in gold and black over green covers, the cloth spine somewhat worn, the boards rubbed, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. The Legitimation League was an organization first formed by Individualists, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, and other free-thinking Victorians to argue in favor of the rights of illegitimate children in 1893. Shortly thereafter, the group began to focus on the advancement and promotion of freer sexuality that did not require marriage.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
