614. Wollstonecraft (Mary) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: "with strictures on political and moral subjects, vol.I (all published), first edition, very light marginal browning to a few ff., but overall internally very good, contemporary marbled boards with 19th century half calf, [PMM 242], 8vo, for J.Johnson, 1792."
est. £1500 – £2000
"A powerful yet rational essay on the dynamic of the relationship between men & women, and how equality is a right of all women but is repressed through the lack of education available to them. Sadly it was the author’s personal life that garnered more interest than her role as a proto-feminist, largely due to the well-intentioned but somewhat damaging Memoir published by her husband William Godwin in 1798, following Wollstonecraft’s death after delivering their only child together, Mary Shelley."