[Rarebooks] FS: THE ENQUIRER, 1797, by the father of the creator of FRANKENSTEIN

[Charles Agvent]

GODWIN, William THE ENQUIRER. REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION, MANNERS, AND 
LITERATURE....
Robinson London 1797 First Edition.  xii, 481 pages.  An important work 
by this philosopher published the same year that his wife, Mary 
Wollstonecraft, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter & 
future author of FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley.  He would later have some 
influence on his daughter's husband, Percy Shelley.  Published several 
years after Godwin's THINGS AS THEY ARE, which some regard as the first 
modern novel.  Godwin, "the philosophical representative of English 
radicalism" (DNB), also had the distinct honor of reading Thomas Paine's 
RIGHTS OF MAN in manuscript.  Attractively bound with good margins in 
modern calf-backed boards.  Four small, discreet library stamps within 
text, ink number on verso of title with some bleed through.  Corner of 
one page torn with no loss of text.  Library perforated stamp to half 
title and title pages.  Nice copy    $850.00
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