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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: octavo, 28, 2 pp, ads, pamphlet, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, ex-library, hand and blindstamps on titlepage, roughly removed, text clean, else good. One of the advertisements is for the Trial of Thomas Paine, for a libel in the second part of his Rights of Man.
Seller: Michael Brown, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Original pamphlet in modern hardcover binding. Gilt-stamped black leather over boards, previous owner had "Farnell Family" gilt-stamped on front board, 78 pages. Howes lists this 78 page edition published 1792 as the 2nd edition and states, "This attack on the evils of English government is practically a third part of Paine's 'Rights of Man'". We found a few instances of pencil marks in margins. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Politics & Government; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014972.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Description: Three works bound in one, "Miscellaneous Articles" first edition, 33, (3 advertisement), 36, 40 pp. Some light browning and minor tears, one corner torn away without loss. 20th century boards. "Miscellaneous Articles" collects 8 pieces; letters to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Authors of the Republican, Abbé Syeyes, Lord Onslow the people of France and two to Henry Dundas as well as his "Thoughts on the Peace". "A Letter to Abbé Raynal" first appeared in 1782 and remains one of Paine's most important works, disputing an earlier account of the American revolution, and indeed the definition of "revolution" itself. The "Letter to the Addressers." concerns the government's warning against "wicked and seditious libels" in May 1792, directed chiefly at the second part of "The Rights of Man" and follows on from his letters to Dundas and Onslow. This response was at the printers even as he fled the country in September of the same year. Gimbel pp. 83, 72, 74. Sabin 58222 notes similar editions of "Abbé Raynal"
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, in Paternoster Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, No. 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone Street, 1792. Early printing. Octavo (21cm.); modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 78,[2]pp. (A-E8, lacking half title, otherwise collated complete). Textblock a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Bound with leaf of publisher's advertisements in rear promoting Paine's "Rights of Man" Parts I & II in both regular and cheap editions. Early edition of this polemical pamphlet described by Howes as essentially part three to "Rights of Man." Indeed, much of the text here is devoted to describing and defending the publication of the first and second parts of that hugely influential tract. This title published by Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), with whom Paine lodged while composing "Rights of Man." Both men eventually fled to France to evade imprisonment (see Rickman's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). This work was also published by Symonds and Rickman in a 12mo format of 40 pages, which Howes lists as the first edition. HOWES P28, listing this as the second edition.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, in Paternoster Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, No. 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone Street, 1792. First Edition? 12mo (20cm.); modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 40pp. (A12 B6 C2, lacking half title page, otherwise collated and complete). Very occasional soil to textblock, else a Very Good or better copy in sturdy new binding. Early (possibly the first) edition of this polemical pamphlet described by Howes as essentially part three to "Rights of Man." Indeed, much of the text here is devoted to describing and defending the publication of the first and second parts of that hugely influential tract. This title published by Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), with whom Paine lodged while composing "Rights of Man." Both men eventually fled to France to evade imprisonment (see Rickman's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). HOWES P28, listing this as the first edition ahead of the 78pp. state.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Salmon paper wraps are soiled & rubbed from handling; chips missing from corners, ends of spine & a 1/2 spot in center of spine; 2" tear at lower edge of front panel. 91pp including Appendix, letter to M de la Fayette, preface & an advertisement for Common Sense. Previous owner's signatures, tanned pages & foxing throughout, irregularly cut pages; all quite legible. Protected in mylar sleeve.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1170.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thomas Paine, Rights of Man Being an Answer to Mr. Burke s Attack on the French Revolution, London: J. S. Jordan (vol. 1) and H. D. Symonds (vol. 2) 1792. Two hardbound volumes. Written before the French Revolution went awry and literally almost took his head, this is Paine s seminal work of political discourse wherein he both showed the weaknesses and absurdity of monarchy, and contended for the creation of what is now known as the welfare state. This work rebutted Edmund Burke's case for monarchy and bolstered American and British support for the French Revolution. Paine contended that government aid is not charity, but an obligation of the state whether a monarchy or democracy. Paine argued for both individual rights and society s well-being. He fervently contended that crippling poverty undermines the rights of an individual, and consequently the legitimacy of government. Paine emphasized education and tax reform, calling for progressive taxes on property. Paine noted that the poor consists mostly of children and the elderly, who are unable to work. Delving into the details, Paine observed that England's population was roughly 7 million. He posited that around one-fifth of the population or 1,400,000 people were so poor as to need support. Paine s plan for financing relief was to cut military expenditures and redirect those funds to ending poverty. Paine mathematically backed up his proposal. As the author of Common Sense (1776), Rights of Man (1791, 1792), Age of Reason (1794), and The [American] Crisis (1776-1783), Paine was far ahead of his times as a political and economic thinker and essayist. Having left school when he was 12, Thomas Paine, the son of a corset maker trained to take-up that occupation, revealed no genius as he went from job to job. But on January 10, 1776, a month before he turned 39, Paine exploded onto the transatlantic stage as the foremost advocate of obtaining liberty for the colonies by fighting the British. Paine himself commented that any literary talent he might have had was buried in me and might ever have continued so, had not the necessity of the times dragged and driven him to write. (The Crisis, No. VIII, ¶6.)
Seller: Paines Pen, Guerneville, CA, U.S.A.
Thomas Paine. Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation. H. D. Symonds, 1792.
Price: US$1170.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation, London: H. D. Symonds 1792. Before the French Revolution went awry and literally almost took his head, Paine wrote The Rights of Man, his seminal work of political discourse wherein he both showed the weaknesses and absurdity of monarchy, embraced representative government as the best form of government, and contended for the creation of what is now known as the welfare state. Many English monarchists and aristocrats publicly decried The Rights of Man. Based on published reports, Paine figured that three hundred and twenty gatherings at which his work was attacked had been held and calculated that but thirty-two thousand had heard those challenges. (At p. 13.) He wrote the instant volume to defend his name and ideas. Regarding his work, Paine contended: If Rights of Man were a book that deserved the vile description which promoters of the Address have given of it, why did not these men prove their charge, and satisfy the people, by producing it, and reading it publicly? This most certainly ought to have been done, and would also have been done, had they believed it would have answered their purpose. But the fact is, that the book contains truths which those time-servers dreaded to hear, and dreaded that the people should know; and it is now following up the Addresses in every part of the nation, and convicting them that his words are false or arguments wrong. (At p. 13.) As the author of Common Sense (1776), Rights of Man (1791, 1792), Age of Reason (1794), and The [American] Crisis (1776-1783), Paine was far ahead of his times as a political and economic thinker and essayist. Having left school at 12, Thomas Paine, the son of a corset maker trained to take-up that occupation, revealed no genius as he went from job to job. But on January 10, 1776, a month before he turned 39, Paine exploded onto the transatlantic stage as the foremost advocate of obtaining liberty for the colonies by fighting the British. Paine himself commented that any literary talent he might have had was buried in me and might ever have continued so, had not the necessity of the times dragged and driven him to write. (The Crisis, No. VIII, ¶6.) This hardbound volume is from the edition printed at Paine s behest. We understand that Paine sent Symonds the manuscript and requested that he print it and that this is the first edition but acknowledge that some question exists as to whose edition was first. All pages are intact, no one has written upon them.
Seller: Paines Pen, Guerneville, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Full Description: PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [Bound with] Rights of Man; Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. [Bound with] Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1792. Very early reprints of the first two titles; first Symonds edition of the third title. Twelvemo (7 9/16 x 4 1/4 inches;192 x 109 mm). [2], 78; 91, [3, appendix]; 40 pp. First edition of the Symonds/Rickman 40-page edition of the Letter Addressed to the Addressers, title page with "Proclamation" measuring 5.4 cm. long. This title was issued the same year in London by Jordan in a 40-page edition and by Symonds in a 78-page edition, although no copies are known to exist of the Jordan edition. Bound without half titles for all works. Full contemporary sheep, rebacked. Newer red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards a bit rubbed. Corners bumped. A few pages opened rough. Internally very clean. Overall, a very good copy in a contemporary American binding. Originally published in 1791 as a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, as a vindication of the French Revolution, and as a critique of the British system of government, Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy. Paine created a language of modern politics that brought important issues to the common man and the working classes. Employing direct, vehement prose, Paine defended popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth-all of which were considered, at the time, to be dangerous and even seditious issues. The second part constitutes Paine's revolutionary advocacy of representative government, and an appeal to the English to overthrow their monarchy. It was so popular with English radicals that 200,000 copies were sold by 1793. Concerning the third title, the 'late proclamation' was the royal proclamation against seditious writings issued May 21, 1792, and was directed particularly against the second part of Rights of Man. Regarding the third work "This attack on the evils of the English government is practically a third part of his Rights of man." (Howes) Howes P28. PMM 241. HBS 69074. $2,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Description: A pamphlet volume of radical and anti-radical works published in London around the French Revolution, including early editions of both parts of Paine's Rights of Man, the response of future US president John Quincy Adams to Paine, and an apparently unrecorded account of the execution of Louis XVI. The Rights of Man, Paine's great defence of the inalienable rights of the people, and their right to revolution when governments do not uphold these rights, went through many printings in quick succession and met a wide readership, despite the Pitt government's attempts at censorship. Written in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Paine defends the French Revolution and proposes reforms to Britain's own system. John Quincy Adams's response to Paine was first published in an American newspaper in 1791. "Adams' articles did not directly condemn the French Revolution, but they argued against revolutionary change except under the most extreme circumstances. Without questioning the right of Americans to throw off British rule in 1776, he maintained that revolution was justifiable only as a last alternative to 'the degradation of slavery'. Conservative in their basic philosophy, the articles were so well written and demonstrated such a thorough grasp of ancient and modern political theory that they were widely reprinted in the United States and Great Britain" (Teed, p. 31). The anonymous author of The Duties of Man directly rebuts Paine, noting that men much prefer being told of their rights than their duties, and sets forth their duties to religion, to the king, and to pay taxes and tithes. The author concludes the consequence of adopting Paine's principles would be "their constitution overturned, their country enslaved, their property plundered, their commerce lost, their manufacturers ruined". Such sentiments are not held by the next work, A Tribute to Liberty, which collects a number of radical songs, including mocking Edmund Burke, praising French liberty and Thomas Paine, and openly expressing republican aspirations. The final work in the volume, King of France. The Execution, of Louis the Sixteenth is apparently unrecorded, not noted by ESTC, Library Hub, or WorldCat. It gives an account of Louis XVI's actions leading to the revolution and his death sentence, and a detailed description of the execution itself, appended with the king's will. Comprising: i) PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Part I. London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792. The first part of Rights of Man was first published in 1791 by Joseph Johnson, who withdrew it from sale after only a few copies were issued, with the edition afterwards properly issued by J. S. Jordan. ii) PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man; Part the Second. London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792. The second part of Rights of Man was first published earlier the same year by J. S. Jordan. iii) ADAMS, John Quincy. An Answer to Pain's Rights of Man. London: reprinted for Owen Picadilly; and sold by Symonds and Parsons, 1793. Adams's Answer was originally published in the Columbian Sentinel, a Boston newspaper in 1791, published in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1792, and published in London by John Stockdale earlier in 1793. iv) ANON. The Duties of Man in Connexion with his Rights. London: Printed for Messrs. Rivington, 1793. First edition of this reply to Paine, with two apparent issues noted by ESTC, locating six copies across the two. v) THOMPSON, R. (ballad writer). A Tribute to Liberty: or, a New Collection of Patriotic Songs. Sacred to the Rights of Man. London: printed for and sold by Thomson, 1793. There are two editions without known priority; ESTC locates five copies between them. vi) ANON. King of France. The Execution, of Louis the Sixteenth; (Impartially Investigated) in which is considered The Conduct and Character of the deceased Monarch, and the Motives which actuated his Enemies to make him their Victim. To which is added a circumstantial Account of his Execution, And a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament. London: Printed for J. Downes, 1793. 46pp. The only copy that could be located. ESTC T5878; T5879; N30406; T35052; T180473; not in ESTC. Paul E. Teed, John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist, 2006. 6 works bound in 1 volume, octavo (185 x 109 mm). Recent brown half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides. Contemporary manuscript contents leaf bound at front. Both parts of Rights of Man bound without terminal advertisement leaves. Title page of Rights of Man part I reinserted with discolouration in inner margin, part II pp. 81/2 with small chip affecting heading without loss, contents with some spotting and some catchwords shaved. Overall very good copies.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: Full leather (worn). Pagination as follows: tract 1: 76 pp. Tract 2: vii, (1), pp. 9-91, (5) pp. Tract 3: half-title ("Paine's Rights of Man, Part The Third), tp, 38 pp. Tract 4: 40 pp. No ffep or half-title to first tract, which is erroneously dated 1742 in Roman numerals. It is listed as a London printing, but right under this is stated New York, Reprinted for Berry, Rogers, and Berry. It aligns with OCLC number 60530768. Second tract published London, 1792 for H.D. Symonds, and corresponds to OCLC number 5018567 most closely, though there is no ad on the verso of the last blank leaf. Tract 3 has half-title of "Paine's Rights of Man, Part The Third", New York 1793, printed by Thomas Greenleaf, and corresponds best to OCLC number 166592329. Tract 4 is printed at Paris, third year of The French Republic (1795), at The English Press. Tract 4 is the first issue, with "stands" on line 9 of page 25. It was replaced by "all men" in the second state. A very nice Sammelband of Paine's influential writings. Fair, lots of foxing, minor staining to first title-page, minor loss to first two sheets of first tract at lower right corner, no text loss last leaf of tract 4 has missing corner but no text loss, the whole volume is tender
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, iv, 78 pages, vii, [1], pp. [9]-90, [4], [4], pp. [5]-45. In Very Good condition. Bound in full unsigned straight-grained morocco, elaborate gilt dicing to boards, paneled spine with gilt titling and tooling. All edges gilt. Boards show some wear and rubbing, primarily to extremities and hinges, small bump to tail of spine, and minor rubbing and scraping to binding; Text block (all edges gilt) has archival backing to the title page of Rights of Man, and archival backing to title pages of Part the Second and Abbe Raynal, and generally more wear to title pages than the remaining text block. Abbe Raynal lacks the final advertisement leaf. Bound in at the rear is a large bound-in advertisement for Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, dated September 11, 1815. Approximately 20 in. x 6.5 in., printed on both sides. With numerous fonts and old folds. Trimmed, with small loss to text. EC Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. Contains three early printings of Thomas Paine as well as a large bound-in advertisement, dated September 11, 1815. Rights of Man first appeared in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burke's criticism of the French Revolution. It quickly went through multiple editions in its first year, and it is estimated that within three months of its release over 50,000 copies were in circulation. Paine is credited with helping (temporarily) turn the tide of public opinion regarding the revolution in France. It was for this work that he was tried and convicted in absentia for seditious libel - the sentence for which he avoided, as he was in France. A crucial document both of the revolutionary period and the radical enlightenment. References: ESTC T5878; ESTC T5879; ESTC T5834. The advertisement is for a Hippodrama featuring equestrian events intermixed with comedy and drama, and took place at Astley's Amphitheatre, the first modern circus ring. Featured on the ad are both Mr. Ridgway, as "Fim Turf (Afterwards Harlequin)" and Mrs. Ridgway, featured in larger font as Joan in Henry VIII and the Cobler. They are of possible relation to James Ridgway, who published one of the included Paine pieces, if he had children or cousins involved in entertainment. It has a fascinating disparate parity, showing the political turmoil of the time with the ephemeral nature of a horse-show, "or, Harlequin in Horseback!" Since the back of the advertisement has verses based on Dibdin as well as featuring "Two High-Dressed Managed Horses will Dance Hayden's Minuet," it brings a third musical dynamic to it. Interestingly, the last part (Abbe Raynal) is lacking the final issued advertisement leaf. 1357594. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$4354.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A sammelband of five pamphlets by Thomas Paine, including his two most important and influential works, 'Common Sense' and 'Rights of Man'. A sammelband of five pamphlet treatises by Thomas Paine.Containing;'Rights of Man', Parts I and II, published by H. D. Symonds in London in 1792, early editions published in the same year as the first. One leaf of adverts to the rear of Part I.'Two Letters to Mr. Henry Dundas with Two Letters to Lord Onslow', published by L. Wayland in London in 1792.'Common Sense', published by J. Ridgway in London in 1792, a new edition of this work'The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance', published by Hartley, Adlard and Son in Paris in 1796. Half-title present.'Rights of Man' is a massively influential work, written in the midst of the French Revolution. The work is a collection of articles that attacks Edmund Burke's 1790 work 'Reflections of the Revolution in France'. Burke's work was an intellectual attack on the Revolution. Paine argues that political revolution is permissible when a government doesn't safeguard the rights of its people.'Common Sense' is equally influential, advocating independence from Britain, published at the beginning of the American Revolution. Upon publication it became an immediate sensation, being read aloud in taverns and meeting places. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with some rubbing and marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Small cracks to the joints. A small amount of loss to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spots. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom