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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
Second edition of the first great feminist treatise. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) argued in her groundbreaking manifesto, with its deliberate echo of Tom Paine, that the rights of man and of woman were one and the same. Despite the inevitable critics, the book was a success, both critically among liberals to whom the arguments were already familiar and commercially, as shown by this second edition, published the same year as the first.
Octavo. Original buff backed blue boards, remnants of ink title to backstrip, uncut. Housed in blue, leather entry slipcase and chemise. Deckle edges a little rough, some trivial spotting throughout, boards a little marked and lightly rubbed, backstrip chipped and defective in top quarter. A remarkable copy.
