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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary - A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects. [Vol. 1., all published].  London, J. Johnson, 1792

Estimation : 2500 / 2500
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
8vo, later quarter brown calf (corners rounded), gilt armorial supralibros on covers, gilt orn. flat spine (joints split., defect. at head & tail), spr. edges, xix-[1 bl.]-452 pp. (fox. throughout, traces of use).  Rare 1st ed. by the Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), containing the classic text of women's liberation. Dedicated to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord in response on his 1791 report to the French National Assembly which stated that women should only receive a domestic education. "She did not attack the institution of marriage or the practice of religion. Instead, she argued for equality of education for both sexes and for state control and co-education. It was a rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between both sexes (...)" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Gilt supralibros Society of Writers to the Signet on covers. 
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