Research Catalog

Title

A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects. By Mary Wollstonecraft.

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.

Publication

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792.

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Details

Additional Authors

Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809.

Description

xix, 452 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Women's rights
• Women > Social conditions

Note

• 8vo: []², b⁸, B-Z⁸, Aa-Ff⁸, Gg².
• On title-page: "Vol. I.", but no more volumes were published, and the book is complete in this form.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC

Call Number

Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Vindication of the rights of woman. 1792. 2nd ed. London)

OCLC

• 1161921
• 1161921
• 8831562

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.

Title

A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects. By Mary Wollstonecraft.

Imprint

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792.

Edition

Second edition.

Indexed In:

ESTC T6723

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1: Original blue-gray boards, drab paper spine, inked title, uncut, in blue cloth folder, in blue slip-case with title in gilt on spine and CHPL device in gilt. -- J.J. Leighton, Aug. 1926.

Pforzheimer copy 2: Old full polished calf, rebacked, blind-tooled decorations, red morocco spine label, gilt rules & letters: WOLLISTONECRAFT [sic]/RIGHTS/OF/WOMAN. -- Hodgson's 2/24/1956, lot 421, through Quaritch.

Pforzheimer copy 3: b7-8 misfolded, therefore mispaginated. -- Original blue-grey boards, tan back-strip mostly missing, upper board mostly detached, front free-endpaper missing, uncut, in white envelope. -- No provenance given.

Pforzheimer copy 4: This is one item from a group of Shelley forgeries created, perhaps in Paris, in the 1920's. They were acquired by a firm of antiquarian booksellers who deliberately kept them off the market and presented them to the Pforzheimer Collection. -- With the forged signature of Percy Bysshe Shelley on title page. -- Marginal annotations throughout, in pencil and in ink, which mostly underline certain passages; it is unclear if some or all of these annotations have also been forged. -- Contemporary calf, blind-tooled decorations in the Cambridge style, black morocco spine label, gilt rules & letters: VINDICATION/ OF THE RIGHTS /OF WOMAN: /WOLLSTONECRAFT; housed within a green morocco slip case made by Zaehnsdorf. -- With the armorial bookplate of John Hogg, Lincolns Inn. -- Gift of Hamill & Barker, December 22, 1987.

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Added Author

Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Publisher

Hogg, John, 1761-1823, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Vindication of the rights of woman. 1792. 2nd ed. London)

Pforz (Forgeries) (Wollstonecraft, M. Vindication of the rights of woman. 1792. 2nd ed. London)

SNR (Godwin, M. W. Vindication of the rights of woman. 1792)