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66 FAWCETT, Millicent Garrett. The Women’s Victory— and After: Personal Reminiscences 1911–1918. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1920 Octavo. Original green wrappers, title to spine and front cover in black, Punch illustration printed in black to front cover. With a glassine jacket. Frontispiece and 3 plates. A little chipping to spine ends, tiny crease and old faint mark to rear wrapper and final page of text, touch of scattered foxing to wrappers and edges, else clean internally. A well-preserved copy of this fragile publication. First edition, signed by the author on July 1928 , the month in which the Equal Franchise Act was passed , finally giving the same voting rights to men and women ten years after partial suffrage was achieved, on the half-title, with a manuscript correction to the text, almost certainly authorial, on p. 15 to a misprinted quo- tation (“the rout that made the hideous war”) from Milton’s Lyci- das , altering “war” to “roar”. In this work, Fawcett looks back at the movement’s long campaign for the vote, and examines what has been achieved between the publication of her 1911 book, Women’s Suffrage: a Short History of the Great Movement , and the passage of the Representation of the People Act of 1918, allowing women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification to vote. £1,250 [130432] 67 FERNANDO, Dorothy. Wild Flowers of Ceylon. Mitcham: West Brothers, 1954 Large octavo. Publisher’s presentation binding, purple full crushed moroc- co, titles to spine in gilt in compartments, floral onlay in red and green mo- rocco, cream silk moiré doublures and endpapers, turn-ins tooled in gilt, all edges gilt. Housed in a green cloth slipcase. Printed in red, blue, and black. Colour frontispiece and 20 colour plates, tipped-in as issued. Spine lightly sunned, else a fine copy. first edition, in a presentation binding identical to that used for the copy presented to Queen Elizabeth II on the first day of her trip to Ceylon in April 1954, signed by the binder, J. Langham,
on the second blank, and with an original photograph of the copy presented to the queen mounted on the half-title. Dorothy Fernando (1907–1981) was an active horticulturist born in Panadura, Sri Lanka, who developed her technique in botanical watercolours by illustrating articles on the indigenous orchid flora for her brother-in-law Ernest Soysa, an avid orchid grower. Fernan- do collected, studied, and painted samples for this work in the late 1940s, when she travelled Sri Lanka with her son Malik. The plates were produced using a four-colour printing process “that had not been used previously in producing a book of this nature” ( Sri Lanka Sunday Times, 30 March 2014). £1,500 [130618] 68 (FITZGERALD-DE ROS, Cecilia.) Regency-era sketch book. Thames Ditton: [c.1820s] Oblong octavo, pp. [50], (117 × 158 mm). Original black straight-grain mo- rocco, metal clasp, marbled endpapers. With 39 sketches, 27 in pencil (14 of which are partial or incomplete), 7 in pencil and ink, and 15 in pencil, ink, and watercolours, including one double page spread. Some leaves shaken but firm, tape reinforcement to gutter of pp. [8–9], four leaves neatly ex- cised; notably well-preserved. an insightful and extensive regency-era sketchbook used by Cecilia FitzGerald-de Ros (1807/11–1869), the daughter of Irish MP Lord Henry FitzGerald and his wife Charlotte FitzGer- ald-de Ros, and with the bookplate of her daughter, Georgiana Olivia Quin ( née Boyle, 1843–1931) to the front free endpaper verso.
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