No. I. The American crisis. By the author of Common sense.

All titles

• No. I. The American crisis. By the author of Common sense.
• American crisis. Number 1

People / Organizations

• Thomas Paine (Author)

Imprint

[Fishkill, N.Y.: Printed by Samuel Loudon, 1776 or 1777]

Publication year

?

ESTC No.

W38906

Grub Street ID

349701

Description

8p. ; 12⁰

Note

Caption title.

Attributed to Thomas Paine in the Dictionary of American biography.

Dated at end: Dec. 23, 1776. Ascribed to the Fish-Kill press of Samuel Loudon by R.W.G. Vail. See his "A Patriotic Pair of Peripatetic Printers: The Up-state Imprints of John Holt and Samuel Loudon, 1776-1783" (in Essays Honoring L.C. Wroth, 1951, p. 391-422). Dated 1776? by Vail, who notes that it was advertised in Loudon's New-York packet, Feb. 6, 1777 "and perhaps earlier?" -.

Uncontrolled note

Not in Evans. - NOT RECORDED BY BRISTOL, WHO RECORDS (FROM VAIL) LOUDON'S EDITION OF NOS. 2-4 (BRISTOL B4553-4554, S/M 43327-43329)