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Contraception - its Theory, History and Practice.
John Bale, 1923.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Mid green boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with clean boards. Light wear to extremities with a few tiny light marks only. Internally clean with no inscriptions. Endpapers original and unsplit. A lovely copy.
Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, academic, campaigner for women's rights and a pioneer in the field of birth control - she founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes was never in favour of abortion arguing that preventing conception was all that was needed.
Item #102206
Price: £70.00
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