Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the present Ability of America, with some miscellaneous Reflections. A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added an Appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N. B. The new addition here given increases the work upwards of one-third.

People / Organizations

• Thomas Paine (Author)

Imprint

[London]: Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed, for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House in Piccadilly, 1776.

Publication year

1776-1776

ESTC No.

T141595

Grub Street ID

189101

Description

[6],54;[4],47,[1]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Anonymous. By Thomas Paine.

Edition statement from half-title: 'Common sense, and Plain truth. The fourth edition, corrected.' - 'Plain truth: addressed to the inhabitants of America. .. Second edition' has separate titlepage, pagination and register, and is by James Chalmers.

At the foot of the first page of the introduction the last letter of "fire" has dropped below the direction line. Gimbel identifies four variants.

Uncontrolled note

Wherever possible, variants identified by Gimbel will be given in the copy-notes. This edition not correctly described in Adams, although he does cite Gimbel nos. for these variants