Wollstonecraft (Mary) Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, first edition, lacking final advertisement leaf, contemporary ink signature to head of title, slight worming to inner margin of first few leaves, some light foxing, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, new morocco label, corners repaired, [Rothschild 2598; Windle 7A], 1796 § Godwin (William) Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, second edition, half-title, stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by Heath after Opie (sometimes missing), with the final blank, contemporary ink signature to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, lacking label, a little rubbed, spine ends slightly chipped, 1798, 8vo, J.Johnson (2)

⁂ The first item is regarded by many as the first business travelogue by a woman published in English. Wollstonecraft travelled to Scandinavia with only her infant daughter and a maid, in an attempt to win back her lover and father of her illegitimate child, Gilbert Imlay, by reporting back on a Norwegian business partner who had swindled him. The book was well received and William Godwin wrote in his Memoirs (second item), "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book".

Godwin's memoir is the only contemporary biographical notice of Wollstonecraft, which he put to paper within a week of her death following the birth of their daughter Mary, later Mary Shelley. The book reversed the accepted conventions of contemporary biography and created a vindication of her life, but such was the criticism generated that by summer 1798 this "corrected" edition went to press. It is some seven pages longer and corrects some of the passages which attracted most criticism; the words "shameless", "lascivious" and "disgusting" being some of the words which led to the revision.