Proto-feminist tract.- Austin (William) Haec Homo wherein the Excellency of the Creation of Woman is described, second edition, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, but with engraved additional title and letterpress title within border, seventeenth century ink ownership inscription to this, lacking final ?blank (I12), small amounts of worming to gutter and lower fore-edge affecting text but with no major loss, nineteenth century mottled calf, gilt, spine with morocco labels, [STC 975], 12mo, Richard Olton for Ralph Mabb, 1638.

⁂ A second edition of this rare proto-feminist tract. Probably first written around 1620 in response to the misogynist pamphlet 'Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman', Austin's work by contrast joins the feminine pronoun with the masculine noun. In his argument not only do both sexes share common humanity but also "the same reasonable soule; and, in that, there is neither hees nor shees". This copy re-bound by Auguste Marie, Comte de Caumont [binder's book-label], an aristocratic French emigré from the who worked as an esteemed book binder in Soho until 1815.