ALCUIN: A Dialogue. The Gehenna Press,1970, with Leonard Baskin Lithograph Signed
by BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN
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This is copy 250 of 300 books printed in 1970, orange cloth boards in marbled slip case. This edition's "Afterward" offers an explanation for this work. Brown (1771-1810) has been recognized as, "the first professional man of letters in the United States." The first and second parts of this three part book, "were printed originally as a book in New York in 1798...the second parts..posthumously published in 1815...." as part of Brown's biography by William Dunlap. The 1970 edition offers, "a single volume containing the entire text of all parts of Alcuin...." The book promoted the rights of women when the topic was actively debated in the late eighteenth century with Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792) leading the way. Autograph
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- ALCUIN: A Dialogue. The Gehenna Press,1970, with Leonard Baskin Lithograph Signed
- Author
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN
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- Hardcover
- Keywords
- women's rights
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