Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.
Rare Fourth American edition of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.
PAINE, Thomas.
$1,600.00
Item Number: 134509
Albany: Re-Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, n.d.
Fourth American edition of Paine’s classic work. Octavo, disbound. In near fine condition. A rare and desirable American separate printing.
Written “with a force and clarity unequalled even by Burke, Paine laid down those principles of fundamental human rights which must stand, no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them… The government tried to suppress it, but it circulated the more briskly… [Rights of Man is] the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy” (PMM 241).
