"Scarce first edition of this Suffragist legal work, giving a practical guide for those who wished to see the law changed in favour of women, published by the Woman Citizen Publishing Society. 'The object of this book is twofold: first to give a person, whether man or woman, who is not a lawyer a rough idea of what the Law is and how it works, so that in any particular case which may arise it may be quickly ascertained what it is best to do. The second object is to enable public speakers and persons who are interested in an alteration of the Law in favour of women to marshal their facts and prepare their speeches or Ralph Thicknesse (1856-1923), letters to the newspapers on a sound basis of fact, and a correct basis of what law is' (p. i). Evidently a sympathizer of the suffrage cause, Ralph Thicknesse (1856-1923) was head of Messrs. Thicknesse and Hall, solicitors in London, he was also the author of A digest of the law of husband and wife (1884). OCLC records three copies in North America, at Georgia, George Washington University and Waterloo." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 89).