The Works of Thomas Paine, Esq.

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An important early British collection of works by one of the United States’ founding fathers, being an assemblage of later editions of some of Thomas Paine’s writings - including his famed Common Sense and Rights of Man - with a general title page as well as individual title pages as issued. Various American editions of the present work were issued in both 1791 as well as the same year; however, they contained slightly different writings. This edition is the variant English issue that includes a frontispiece portrait of Paine. That a collection of Paine’s works was published in England while he was still alive speaks to Paine’s importance to and place in not only the American Revolutionary period, but also his place in various international affairs of the time, most notably the French Revolution. This collection of Paine’s works precedes the more well-known British compilation of his works, The Political Works of Thomas Paine (1819), published only ten years after Paine’s death. The present volume was also published before James Carey’s famous two volume compilation of Paine writings, The Works of Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to the Congress of the Unites States, in the Late War , the first complete edition of which was published in Philadelphia in 1797. Comprises: the ninth edition of Common Sense; the ninth edition of Rights of Man, Parts I II; Letter to Abbe Raynal; Letter to the Earl of Shelburne; Letter on Republicanism; Letter to the Abbe Syeyes; Thought

• Year: 1792

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