MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 1792 VINDICATION RIGHTS Of WOMAN 1st PHILOSOPHY Suffrage
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:7021493 | Non-Fiction Subject: Philosophy |
Language: English | Year Printed: 1792 |
Place of Publication: LONDON | Binding: Hardback |
Special Attributes: 1st Edition |
VINDICATION
OF THE
RIGHTS OF WOMAN
WITH
STRICTURES
ON
POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS
BY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
LONDONPRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, No72 ST. PAULS'S CHURCH YARD1792
First Edition
The work has been completely rebound, in later half calf with marbled boards, and measures approx. 21.6cm x 13.7cm x 3.7cm. The front board is detached. The boards are a bit surface scuffed and worn, and similarly the extremities are rubbed, worn, and a litt...le bumped and nicked to the corners. There is a small tear to leather to the top of spine. Internally, there is a public library bookplate and 2 further ink library stamps. The front free endpaper remains attached to the detached front board. There is a further library panel to the rear pastedown. The title page has two library stamps, a small ink smudge, is a little grubby and foxed, and is chipped with loss, to the bottom lower fore edge corner, and the top inner edge/corner, and has a couple of small closed tears/holes. The prelim leaves have some light foxing, and a little grubbiness. The contents have some foxing scattered throughout, a little heavier to some leaves or small sections. There are a few scattered small stains or smudges, and there are some light pencil markings to margins in places throughout. One leaf has a tear to the inner edge, affecting some lettering, see images. There is some light corner creasing in places, and one leaf has a small chip to the top fore edge corner tip. One leaf of text is lacking (pp.239/40 (Q8). Else the contents are in reasonable condition throughout.
xix, [1], 238, 241-452p. (Lack one leaf)At foot of p.452: 'End of the first volume.' although no more published.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an author, radical philosopher and advocate of women's rights.
“She was the first woman to articulate publicly a request for women’s suffrage and coequal education… Although Wollstonecraft is best known as a feminist thinker, her philosophies are not limited to women’s issues… Wollstonecraft advocates liberty and equality for all humanity. Advancing arguments for political rights, she argues for the removal of traditional injustices of rank, property, class, and gender… The key to freedom lies in the reasoning individual conscience, not in laws or dogma… Wollstonecraft adamantly asserts that education inculcating reason will eventually emancipate all humankind from all forms of servitude (political, sexual, religious, or economic)” (G.T.W.W. 322-327).
FIRST EDITION, of the first great feminist treatise, a landmark work in both Enlightenment philosophy, and the history of feminism.
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