If it is evil to kill in the heat of passion is it not a double evil to kill by a supine community consent called law? [Broadside with a 1914 quote]

Stephen, Virginia Snow

Martinsville, Indiana: Helaine Victoria Press, 1987. Broadside. 8.5x11 inch broadside, printed by Jocelyn H. Cohen on handmade cotton rag and abaca paper using a Chandler and Price platen press. Very good. The details of the red area at top vary between examples, the paper being handmade.

A quotation opposing capital punishment, by the Salt Lake City-based feminist and labor activist, a daughter of the fifth president of the Mormon church who left the faith and supported the IWW. Helaine Victoria Press, which took its name from the middle names of founders Jocelyn Helaine Cohen and Nancy Taylor Victoria Poore, published broadsides, posters, and other formats of work, but was best known for its women’s history postcard series. It started with an offset press in Santa Monica but switched to an 80-year old cast iron letterpress, noted by Cohen as “the method which was standard when we were trying to get the vote.” The press later moved to Indiana, and was ultimately donated to the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, where the letterpress now resides.

Cat.No: 280063

Price: $80.00