Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the Fench Revolution.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution. And the effect it has produced in Europe. Volume the first [all published]. Dublin: printed for Pat. Byrne, William Jones, James Moore, John Rice, Nicholas Kelly, John Milliken, George Folingsby, 1795.
12mo.; printed on blue tinted paper; ink stain on two facing contents pages obscuring a few letters; small area of adhesion on title-page affecting one letter; nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards; rubbed; joints slightly cracked; spine label nicked. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First Irish edition; published a year after the first edition. An eloquent analysis of the causes of the French revolution, written as an antidote to Burke’s Reflections, which had appeared four years earlier. Mary Wollstonecraft did not live to complete this major work. Windle A6d; CBEL II, 1255. This is even scarcer than the Irish edition of The Vindication…
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