Women's Rights [Drake (Judith)] An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex

Women's Rights [Drake (Judith)] An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex In which are inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a lady Written by a Lady, London: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy and R. Clavel at the Peacock, in Fleet Street, 8vo, 18th century calf, Second Edition, engraved frontispiece of 'The Compleat Beau', title within double-ruled border, with final line on p.148 reading "the mean Performance of", pencil shelf mark to front endpaper

Provenance:

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Footnote:

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.

THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

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Sold for £5,000

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

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cover scuffed and a little abraded, spine dry without label, head and foot of spine with slight losses, hinges cracked, browned front pastedown with slight loss upper centre, pages toned, title page with tear but no loss to just below upper border (right), p. 20 with ink smudges, from left margin over text but not obscuring, p57/58 leaf with small hole just before margin with slight loss to text.
Free endpaper, frontispiece, title A1 (no sig.), dedication A2-A4, preface A5-B2 (no sig.), two leaves 'To the ingenious Mrs ___ ...', B-L2, 2 leaves of 'The contents'

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