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Mary Woolstonecraft (1759 to 1797)
Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: With Strictures On Moral And Political Subjects
William Gibbons, Philadelphia, 1792
First American Edition
Binding is hardback, condition is VG. 4 3/8" x 6 5/8"
A reasonably scarce item, this is a nice copy of one of the wellsprings of feminist philosophy.
Our Master English Bookbinder has replaced the endpapers and added a new, rebacked leather spine overlaid with the original. The original boards are showing bumped corners and scuffed boards, and there are foxed pages throughout. The copy is housed in a padded clamshell case made by our bookbinder.
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Spine And Front Cover
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Clamshell
Book In Clamshell Case
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Title On Spine
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Title Page
Interior Title
Clearly shows name spelled "Woolstonecraft."
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Dedication
Dedication :
"To M. Talleyrand Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun."
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Contents
Contents Page At Bback
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Mary Woolstonecraft
Also spelled "Wollstonecraft," Mary Woolstonecraft was the mother of Mary Shelley, who was the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and, most notably, the author of Frankenstein.
(Daughter Mary was born on August 30, 1797; on September 10 Mary Woolstonecraft died of septicimia, blood poisoning known as "childbed fever.")
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WOOLSTONE
$6,500.00
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