The American crisis

The American crisis

London : Printed and published by W.T. Sherwin, 1817.

[2], 196 p. ; 22 cm.

L2013F174 1817

(OCoLC)06781386

No. I of this edition, dated August 9, 1775, and referring to General Gage's proclamation concerning the affair at Lexington, is an essay from the London "Crisis" and is here erroneously attributed to Paine. The first number of the "American crisis" is no. II of this collection; "The crisis extraordinary. On the subject of taxation," "To the people of America," "A supernumerary crisis. To Sir Guy Carleton," and "A supernumerary crisis. To the people of America" (on the subject of American commerce) are inserted in their chronological places.
With: The rights of man : being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, 1817; The rights of man : part the second, combining principle and practice, 1817; Dissertation on first-principles of government, 1817; Common sense : addressed to the inhabitants of America on the following interesting subjects, [1817]; A letter addressed to the addressers on the late proclamation, 1817.
In 1817, six works by Thomas Paine were printed individually in pamphlet form by William T. Sherwin, editor of the radical British newspaper The Republican.
Bound in panelled calf; covers elaborately tooled in gilt with wide borders & large central sunburst; richly gilt spine divided in 6 compartments.
Penciled note on front free endpaper: "from the library of Cranmore Hall ..."

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