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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. 12° (177 x 106mm). With errata and adverts. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mary Wollestonecraft by Heath after Opie. (Some light spotting and some light wear to deckle edges, frontispiece lightly browned in the margins.) Uncut in original boards (spine lacking much of the paper covering, original printed label detached but laid in, some soiling and rubbing of extremities).
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Godwin's Memoirs of his wife 'with its startlingly candid account of her sexual history' led to a view of her 'as an irreligious, immoralfanatic' which dominated public perceptions for many decades (ODNB). Lowndes 906.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Godwin's Memoirs of his wife 'with its startlingly candid account of her sexual history' led to a view of her 'as an irreligious, immoralfanatic' which dominated public perceptions for many decades (ODNB). Lowndes 906.