GODWIN, WILLIAM. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1793. 2 vols., 4to, 295 x 230 mm. (11 1/16 x 9 in.) , ORIGINAL BLUE SUGARPAPER OVER BOARDS, CREAM PAPER SPINES, UNCUT, spines numbered in ink, some wear and slight regluing to spines, corners strengthened with paste, folding buckram case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, occasional slight damage to blank corners from careless opening, Cc2.3 stained in vol. 1, 5S2.3 dust-soiled in vol. 2, [a1] (half-title) and [a4] misbound between [a2] and [a3] in vol. 1, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol. II, [a4] in vol. I is a cancel. PMM 243; Rothschild 1016. "The Enquiry ...was one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine...Godwin's passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty...lie at the roots of all communist and anarchist theory" -- Printing and the Mind of Man . Provenance : H. Bradley Martin (sale, Sotheby's New York, Part IX, 14 June 1990, lot 3468). (2)
GODWIN, WILLIAM. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1793. 2 vols., 4to, 295 x 230 mm. (11 1/16 x 9 in.) , ORIGINAL BLUE SUGARPAPER OVER BOARDS, CREAM PAPER SPINES, UNCUT, spines numbered in ink, some wear and slight regluing to spines, corners strengthened with paste, folding buckram case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, occasional slight damage to blank corners from careless opening, Cc2.3 stained in vol. 1, 5S2.3 dust-soiled in vol. 2, [a1] (half-title) and [a4] misbound between [a2] and [a3] in vol. 1, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol. II, [a4] in vol. I is a cancel. PMM 243; Rothschild 1016. "The Enquiry ...was one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine...Godwin's passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty...lie at the roots of all communist and anarchist theory" -- Printing and the Mind of Man . Provenance : H. Bradley Martin (sale, Sotheby's New York, Part IX, 14 June 1990, lot 3468). (2)
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