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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary - HAYS, Mary, and others. The Annual Necrology for 1797-8.
London : 1800
First edition, and sole volume, of this ambitious project to record obituaries of notable persons on an annual basis. The most significant memoir recorded here is the 49 page obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft by the feminist biographer Mary Hays (1759-1843). Hays received a copy of Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman upon its publication... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 123651
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[WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.] A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France.
London : 1790
First edition of each work, a highly interesting assemblage of three works relating to Burke's controversial Reflections on the Revolution in France, also published in 1790. "Mary's fervour for the principles of the Revolution developed rapidly and was unmixed with any doubts; having learnt her politics from the Dissenters, she continued to adopt their... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 110724
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[WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.] A Vindication of the Rights of Men,
London : 1790
First edition, the first of several replies disputing the controversial and conservative assumptions made in Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, also published in 1790, and an important precursor to A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published two years later. "Mary's fervour for the principles of the Revolution developed rapidly and... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 119354
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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. Original Stories, from Real Life;
Dublin : 1792
First Dublin edition, the fourth overall, first published in London in 1788. With two female gift inscriptions, the first on the half-title dated 1792 from Elizabeth Pim to Anne Jackson, who in turn re-presented the book half a century later in 1842 to her niece Elizabeth Garrat.
Original Stories was Mary Wollstonecraft's only work written directly... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 125578