Paine, Thomas

Common Sense; Addressed To The Inhabitants of America. Philadelphia, Printed; London, Re-Printed, for J. Almon, 1776



8vo (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 127 mm); a few small spots on title. Modern boards.



With:
Additions to Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America. Philadelphia, Printed: London, Re-printed for J. Almon, 1776



8vo (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 127 mm); light marginal soiling on title, disbound.

Adams, American Controversy, 76-107d & 76-75b; Gimbel CS-26 & CS-203

a few small spots on first title-page, light marginal soiling on second title which is disbound.
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Second issue of the first British edition, with four blanks filled in type. In the first issue there were gaps on 15 pages in passages commenting on the King and the Parliament; subsequent issues filled in most of these. Some copies of this edition appear with Chalmers's Plain Truth under a collective half-title, but (Adams states) "The difference in paper used in the two, in at least some copies, suggests that they were printed at different times."

The Additions were compiled by the publisher Bell from Philadelphia newspapers and were not by Paine. This edition reprints five of them.