Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, Part I; Rights of Man Part the Second. Concerning Principle and Practice; Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation; Dissertations on First Principles of Government; Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America; A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America; Miscellaneous Articles of Thomas Paine.

PAINE, Thomas.

Item Number: 122960

London: H. D. Symonds, J. S. Jordan, J. Ridgway et al, 1792-1793.

Sammelband collection of early printings of the treatises of Thomas Paine. Octavo, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Paine. The collection includes: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, Part I [London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792]; Rights of Man Part the Second. Concerning Principle and Practice [London: Printed for J. S. Jordan, 1792]; Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation [London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792]; Dissertations on First Principles of Government [London: Printed for the Proprietors]; Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America [London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1793]; A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America [London: Printed for J. Ridgeway, 1712 (1792)]; Miscellaneous Articles of Thomas Paine [London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1793]. In very good condition.

One of the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine authored two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, which ultimately inspired the 1776 Declaration of Independence. Virtually every American rebel read Paine’s powerful pamphlet Common Sense which crystallized the American Revolution and demand for independence from Britain. John Adams asserted "without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain."