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WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)
A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable, Edmund Burke, FIRST EDITION, J. Johnson, 1790

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)

A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable, Edmund Burke, FIRST EDITION, modern cloth-backed boards [Rothschild 2596], 8vo, J. Johnson, 1790

Footnotes

First edition of Wollstonecraft's refutation of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, his celebrated attack on the French Revolution. The Rights of Men was "an immediate success; its author a new literary lioness. Her name was bracketed with that of Thomas Paine... as a leading revolutionist; she was commended in France and fêted by fellow radicals in England" (ODNB).

Provenance: University of Bristol, small blindstamp on title and final leaf, withdrawal stamp inside upper cover.

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