Rights of Man; Rights of Man: Part the Second; Common Sense; Letter Addressed to the Addressers; Agrarian Justice and A Letter to George Washington.

PAINE, Thomas.

Item Number: 81131

London: H.D. Symonds; T. Williams, Various, 1792.

Six Thomas Paine books bound in a single volume. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf. Rights of Man – Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution – Part 1. Published in 1792 in London for H.D. Symonds. 78 pages. Rights of Man – Part the Second, Combining Principle and Practice. Published in 1792 in London for H.D. Symonds. 91 pages + 3 page appendix. Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America – On the Following Interesting Subjects . – Printed in London in 1792 for H.D. Symonds. ‘A new edition with several additions.’ 36 pages. Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation. Published in 1792 in London for H.D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman. 40 pages. Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, And to Agrarian Monopoly – Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man. 1797 Paris Printed for W. Adlard and London, Re-Printed for T. Williams. 16 pages. A Letter to George Washington. Rare and desirable, especially in contemporary calf.

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 1766 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."