An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution; and the Effect it has Produced in Europe. Volume I [all published]

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. 522 pp. + 1 [ads]. Bound in 19th-century half leather over marbled boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with binding rubbed and leather peeled in places, bookplate from the Edwin Forrest Home, Philadelphia, PA. The Edwin Forrest House was once home to the largest women's art school in the United States. Front free endpaper detached and laid in, tanning to contents with sporadic foxing. This work was written between 1792-95 while Wollstonecraft was staying in France, at a time when it was dangerous to express reservations about the revolutionary government. (truncated) It would be the author's only work of history, written when very few women wrote on historical matters. She intended it to be a multi-volume work, but Volume I was all she completed on the subject. (Inventory #: 140946478)