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93 - Feminism.- [Drake (Judith)] An Essay In Defence of the Female Sex, first edition, engraved frontispiece of 'The Compleat Beau', title within double-rule border, variant with final line on p.148 reading "the mean Performance of", headline of A4 slightly trimmed, signature F loose, hinges weak, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, splitting to joints, spine ends worn and chipped, [Wing D2125A], 8vo Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson...and R. Clavel, 1696.
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Feminism.- [Drake (Judith)] An Essay In Defence of the Female Sex, first edition, engraved frontispiece of 'The Compleat Beau', title within double-rule border, variant with final line on p.148 reading "the mean Performance of", headline of A4 slightly trimmed, signature F loose, hinges weak, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, splitting to joints, spine ends worn and chipped, [Wing D2125A], 8vo Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson...and R. Clavel, 1696. *** The first English feminist tract, also attributed to Mary Astell but now generally accepted to be by Judith Drake, whose husband wrote the commendatory verses at the beginning. The treatise is a defence against male accusations of ignorance, vanity, enviousness etc. in women and also addresses the faults of men, particularly satirizing some of her contemporaries.
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