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  "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience": First edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; in the scarce original boards

  WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.

  London: Printed For J. Johnson, 1792.

  First edition of this landmark work—among the earliest and most influential feminist manifestos—presenting a groundbreaking critique of the social and educational structures that enforced women’s subordination. Octavo, original boards, sympathetically rebacked, printed spine label. [Windle A5a; PMM 242; Goldsmiths' 15367]. In very good condition with scattered toning. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Exceptionally rare in the original boards.

  Price: $50,000.00     Item Number: 149731

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  “All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience”: First edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's landmark work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.

  London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792.

  Rare first edition of this landmark work in both Enlightenment philosophy and the history of feminism. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Randolph & English. From the library of Virginia chancery lawyer Henry G. Cannon with his ownership inscription to the pastedown and that of his father, the book's previous owner, to the top portion of the title page which has been excised and supplied. Period notation from presumably a member of the Cannon household to the first page of the dedication to M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun, "This Talleyrand is the man who said that Language was given to man to conceal his thoughts And his Grace of Autun certainly acted up to his favorite sentiment E.G.C." Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was Napoleon's chief diplomat during the years when French military victories brought one European state after another under French hegemony. Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French National Assembly, which stated that women should only receive a domestic education; from her reaction to this specific event, she launched a broad attack against sexual double standards, indicting men for encouraging women to indulge in...

  Price: $25,000.00     Item Number: 124556

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