The Cause by Ray Strachey first edition 1928

STRACHEY, Ray. The Cause. A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1928.
 
Octavo. 429 pp. Frontispiece and 15 further photographic plates (16 illustrations in total).
Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Light foxing to preliminaries and occasional text leaves; a few small marks to the lower board; cloth sound and clean overall; hinges firm; a well-preserved very good copy of a book often encountered in worn condition.
 
Ray Strachey (1887–1940) traces the movement from late-eighteenth-century reform through nineteenth-century legal and social change to suffrage militancy and its aftermath. The photographic illustrations include portraits of leading figures, scenes of protest and arrest, and images documenting the transition from agitation to parliamentary representation, including Mrs Pankhurst and Miss Christabel Pankhurst, and the first woman MP.