Mary Wollstonecraft ed. ELEMENTS OF MORALITY - 1795, First Edition
The Elements of Morality was translated by Mary Wollstonecraft from Salzmann's Moralisches Elementarbuch, published originally in 1782.
In the preface Wollstonecraft explains that she started the translation merely as an exercise in German, only to discover that "chance had thrown in my way a very rational book, and that the writer coincided with me in opinion respecting the method which ought to be pursued to form the heart and temper, or, in other words, to inculcate the first principles of morality..."
16mo brown sheep, red spine label, 1st US ed., originally published in German, translated by, and with preface by Mary Wollstonecraft in which she compares her writing to Salzmann's. Boards detached but present, loss to head and toe of spine, frontis foxed, Fair. Scarce in any state.The Elements of Morality was translated by Mary Wollstonecraft from Salzmann's Moralisches Elementarbuch, published originally in 1782.
In the preface Wollstonecraft explains that she started the translation merely as an exercise in German, only to discover that "chance had thrown in my way a very rational book, and that the writer coincided with me in opinion respecting the method which ought to be pursued to form the heart and temper, or, in other words, to inculcate the first principles of morality..."
16mo brown sheep, red spine label, 1st US ed., originally published in German, translated by, and with preface by Mary Wollstonecraft in which she compares her writing to Salzmann's. Boards detached but present, loss to head and toe of spine, frontis foxed, Fair. Scarce in any state.The Elements of Morality was translated by Mary Wollstonecraft from Salzmann's Moralisches Elementarbuch, published originally in 1782.
In the preface Wollstonecraft explains that she started the translation merely as an exercise in German, only to discover that "chance had thrown in my way a very rational book, and that the writer coincided with me in opinion respecting the method which ought to be pursued to form the heart and temper, or, in other words, to inculcate the first principles of morality..."
16mo brown sheep, red spine label, 1st US ed., originally published in German, translated by, and with preface by Mary Wollstonecraft in which she compares her writing to Salzmann's. Boards detached but present, loss to head and toe of spine, frontis foxed, Fair. Scarce in any state.