[Rarebooks] FS: Godwin's THE ENQUIRER, 1797, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $500 NET

GODWIN, William. THE ENQUIRER. REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION, MANNERS, AND 
LITERATURE. IN A SERIES OF ESSAYS. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. 
First Edition. Attractively bound with good margins in modern 
calf-backed boards; 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 and 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. Four small, discreet library stamps within text, ink 
number on verso of title with some bleed through; library perforated 
stamp to half title and title pages. Corner of one page torn with no 
loss of text. (#003797)     $650.00

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