GREGORY, John. A Father's Legacy to His Daughters ... second edition, London: E. Strahan, T. Cadell and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1774, small 4°, second edition, with half title, contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with crimson morocco lettering-piece.

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GREGORY, John. A Father's Legacy to His Daughters ... second edition, London: E. Strahan, T. Cadell and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1774, small 4°, second edition, with half title, contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with crimson morocco lettering-piece.

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FINE COPY. "I respect his heart, but heartily disapprove of his celebrated Legacy to his Daughters," wrote Mary Wollstonecraft of Dr. Gregory in chapter II of The Vindications of the Rights of Women (1792), stronlgy attacking his precepts that women should cultivate a fondness for dress, practise dissimulation, and conceal both their real affection for their husbands and their mental abilities. Gregory's work was, indeed, "celebrated," and the sixth edition appeared in the same year as the first, but VERY FEW COPIES OF EITHER THE FIRST OR SECOND EDITION ARE RECORDED.

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