WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). Thoughts on the Education of Daughters with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more important Duties of Life. London: J. Johnson, 1787. 8° (150 x 98mm). G6 a cancel as usual. (Short tear to last leaf.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION OF WOLLSTONECRAFT'S FIRST BOOK. Although it was an educational manual, the 'more or less veiled remarks about her own emotional state ... make it abundantly clear that she was far more interested in the state of her own life and the prospects that lay ahead of young women than in their years at school' (Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: Pelican, 1977, pp. 58-59). GOOD COPY. Rothschild 2595.
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). Thoughts on the Education of Daughters with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more important Duties of Life. London: J. Johnson, 1787. 8° (150 x 98mm). G6 a cancel as usual. (Short tear to last leaf.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION OF WOLLSTONECRAFT'S FIRST BOOK. Although it was an educational manual, the 'more or less veiled remarks about her own emotional state ... make it abundantly clear that she was far more interested in the state of her own life and the prospects that lay ahead of young women than in their years at school' (Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: Pelican, 1977, pp. 58-59). GOOD COPY. Rothschild 2595.
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