![]() ![]() It was a rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between both sexes (.)" (PMM). Instead, she argued for equality of education for both sexes and for state control and co-education. "She did not attack the institution of marriage or the practice of religion. First edition of this early and highly important feminist manifesto, in which Wollstonecraft outlines how the equality of women cannot be achieved due to the lack of education available to them. Provenance: Merthyr Guest (armorial bookplate to front pastedown), short pencil inscription to title-page, affixed to the endpapers are newspaper clippings from January 1885 discussing the authenticity of a portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Opie then recently purchased by the National Gallery. ![]() Text crisp and clean throughout, paper flaw at lower blank corner of Ff4 not affecting text. Near contemporary calf, spine with gilt-lettered label and some gilt decoration boards, board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers (light rubbing of extremities, unobtrusive repair of joints). Text block only slightly trimmed preserving several uncut edges. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. ![]()
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