Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. ... A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. ...

People / Organizations

• Thomas Paine (Author)

Imprint

[London]: Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed, for J. Almon, 1776.

Publication year

1776-1776

ESTC No.

N47829

Grub Street ID

32468

Description

[6],54;[4],47,[1]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Anonymous. By Thomas Paine.

Edition statement from half-title: 'Common sense, and Plain truth. The third edition, corrected'.

'Plain truth: addressed to the inhabitants of America. .. Written by Candidus' has separate titlepage with no edition statement, separate pagination and register, and is by James Chalmers.

Last line, p.1 of 'Introduction' has "e" of "fire" placed correctly; pagination of p.23 is upside down in all Gimbel variants.

Uncontrolled note

Adams cites this printing as Gimbel CS-32; variants where identified will be mentioned in copynotes