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GODWIN, William (1756-1836). Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: J. Johnson and G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

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GODWIN, William (1756-1836). Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: J. Johnson and G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

12o. Frontispiece portrait of Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin, errata leaf and advertisement leaf at end. Green morocco gilt, t.e.g., by H. Zucker (slight wear to joints).

FIRST EDITION of the first biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759-1797), author of the groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, 1792), written by her husband and published within a few months of her death. Tinker 1081.

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