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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...by a Lady, 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", contemporary ink inscriptions to title (lightly offset on frontispiece but not affecting main image), cropped slightly shaving frontispiece, also one signature on title and head-lines of a few preliminary leaves, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, splitting to joints, spine ends worn and chipped, lacking label, [Wing D2125A], 8vo, for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson...and R. Clavel, 1696.