ALEXANDER, William (?1742-1788). The History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779. 2 volumes in one, 4° (286 x 215mm). Contemporary mottled calf, compartments of spine ruled in gilt and with a red lettering piece, narrow gilt decorative border round sides (very rubbed, joints becoming weak). Provenance: near contemporary monogram on title of volume I -- according to a pencilled note on front paste-down endpaper the Britwell Court copy.

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ALEXANDER, William (?1742-1788). The History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779. 2 volumes in one, 4° (286 x 215mm). Contemporary mottled calf, compartments of spine ruled in gilt and with a red lettering piece, narrow gilt decorative border round sides (very rubbed, joints becoming weak). Provenance: near contemporary monogram on title of volume I -- according to a pencilled note on front paste-down endpaper the Britwell Court copy.

FIRST EDITION of a book which 'deserves to take a place among Enlightenment histories of civil societies' (DNB).

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