Paine, Thomas | Rights of Man

Paine, Thomas 

Rights of Man: Part the First, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: Printed: New-York: Reprinted for Berry, Rogers, and Berry, 1742 [i.e., 1792] — Rights of Man: Part the Second Combining Principle and Practice. London: Printed: New-York: Reprinted for Berry, Rogers, and Berry, 1793 — Rights of Man. Part Third. Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Proclamation. New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1793

3 parts in one volume, 8vo (206 x 127 mm). Half title in Part III; moderate spotting and browning throughout. Contemporary calf; wear and tears to boards, sympathetically rebacked, lettering piece discolored.

The third part refers to the royal proclamation against seditious writings, issued 21 May 1792, which was directed particularly against the second part of Paine’s Rights of Man.

REFERENCE:

I: ESTC 36944, Evans 24650; II: ESTC W38607, Evans 25962; III: ESTC W13296, Evans 25957

PROVENANCE:

T. Talman (signature on front pastedown and on A3 in Part I)