Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: In Four Volumes
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798.
First edition. [xviii], 181; [vi], 196; [viii], 192; [viii], 195 pp. Complete in four volumes. Contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper sides, spines ruled and numbered in gilt with morocco labels. Bound with half titles, errata noted on versos of Vol. I b6 and Table of Contents of Vol. IV as with the Godwin copy, Windle a8a. Very Good with rubbing to spine edges and gilt, dust-soiling, head of Vol. II worn, former owner's name to front free endpapers, endpapers foxed, faint corner crease to later quarter of pages in Vol. IV. Rare.
Contains the incomplete The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria as well as Lessons for Children, Letters and Miscellaneous Pieces, Letters to Imlay, Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation, Letters to Johnson, the incomplete The Cave of Fancy, On Poetry, and Hints.
Price: $8,500.00