first edition Pamphlet
1852 · Boston
by Walker, Amasa
Boston: Comer's Commercial College, 1852. Pamphlet. Pp.9-16, disbound pamphlet, 8.5x5 inches, acidic newsprint item once sewn (stab-holes remain) and now simply laid together. Complete text, a reading copy only, very toned and somewhat fragile with accession markings, dust-soil, faint staining. As is. Dated, by the way, from an old penciled note, 1852 with a query mark. Walker is pro-capital and also gives reasons, pp.14-16, why an elevation of women's wages would be unwise, here's one such notion: "No attempt to enhance her wages by appeals to human sympathies need ever be attempted, for there is a law which overrides all of these, the law of supply and demand; a law founded in nature; inexorable and immutable" &c &c. (Inventory #: 243319)