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

Estimation : 1000 / 1000
Adjudication : Invendu
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8vo, mod. half calf, flat spine, red leather title label, xix-[1 bl.]-452 pp. (title and last p. somewhat brown.). Good copy. 2nd ed. (1st publ. the same year) by the Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), containing the classic text of women's liberation. "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). With 1st pp. recomposed, without errata at the end of the contents (the corrections are incorporated) and some textual changes, bolstering the feminist claims in her argument. She changed some of her statements regarding female and male difference to reflect a greater equality between the sexes. 
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