[Wollstonecraft, Mary] The Female Reader

[Wollstonecraft, Mary] The Female Reader or Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse. Selected from the best writers, and disposed under proper heads; for the Improvement of Young Women. By Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution. To which is prefixed, a Preface, containing some hints on Female Education. London: J. Johnson, 1789. First edition, 12mo, [xx], 394, [ii - advertisements], contemporary sheep, bookplate of S.P. Thomas, worn, later boards, detached, some spotting, [ESTC T89132: 5 copies UK, 1 N. America]

Footnote: Note: 'Perhaps the rarest of all Mary Wollstonecraft's works, described as 'lost' in all the biographies, and the Janet Todd's bibliography. Copies in BL, Univ. Camb. Lib and a few listed in NUC. Note advertisement leaf at end. See also my note on Cresswick in vol. 4 of M.W.'s Collected Works' (pencil note by William St. Clair on front endpaper). Loosely inserted is an Exhibition Card no for its exhibit in the Exhibition 'Hyenas in Petticoats: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley' at the National Portrait Gallery. Provenance: From the Library of the Late William St Clair