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THOMAS WOOLNER'S COPY

GODWIN, William. The enquirer, reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays.

London. Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition.
8vo. xii, 481pp, [3]. With a half-title and a final errata leaf. Uncut in later paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities lightly rubbed and discoloured. Inked ownership inscription of T. Woolner to head of title.
The first edition of political writer and novelist William Godwin's (1756-1836) largely philosophical essays, perhaps best remembered as the inspiration for Thomas Malthus's ground-breaking work of demography, An Essay on the Principle of Population, published anonymously in 1798.

Thomas Woolner (1825-1892), sculptor and poet, lifelong friend of Tennyson, and original member of the Pre-Rapaelite brotherhood.
ESTC T94276.
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref: 23757