• WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, FIRST EDITION, J. Johnson, 1792

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, FIRST EDITION, lacks pp.239/40 (Q8), library stamp in blank margins of title-page (with small loss at corner) and withdrawal stamp inside upper cover, twentieth century half morocco, upper cover detached [PMM 242], 8vo, J. Johnson, 1792

First edition of Wollstonecraft's treatise in which she outlined why the "Rights of Woman may be respected... and loudly demands JUSTICE for one half of the human race" (Dedication), and which "contains many comparisons with Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, an essay that called for social justice and liberty" (British Library, online).