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Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. Binker North, 1791.

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Description: nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Paine was a very strong supporter of the French Revolution that began in 1789; he visited France the following year. Many English thinkers supported it, including Richard Price, who initiated the Revolution Controversy with his sermon and pamphlet drawing favourable parallels between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the French Revolution. Conservative intellectual Edmund Burke responded with a counter-revolutionary attack entitled Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which strongly appealed to the landed class and sold 30,000 copies.[3] Paine's Rights of Man was printed by Joseph Johnson for publication on 21 February 1791, then withdrawn for fear of prosecution. J. S. Jordan stepped in and published it on 16 March. The 90,000-word book appeared on 13 March, three weeks later than scheduled. It sold as many as one million copies and was 'eagerly read by reformers, Protestant dissenters, democrats, London craftsman, and the skilled factory-hands of the new industrial north' Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles of the French monarchy, not the king himself, and he takes the Bastille, the main prison in Paris, to symbolise the despotism that had been overthrown. Human rights originate in Nature, thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges: It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect-that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few . They . consequently are instruments of injustice . The fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a contract with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist. Government's sole purpose is safeguarding the individual and his/her inherent, inalienable rights; each societal institution that does not benefit the nation is illegitimate-especially monarchy and aristocracy. The book's acumen derives from the Age of Enlightenment, especially from the Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke. The fuller development of this position seems to have been worked out one night in France after an evening spent with Thomas Jefferson, and possibly Lafayette, discussing a pamphlet by the Philadelphia conservative James Wilson on the proposed federal constitution

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Mackintosh, James.. (VINDICIAE GALLICAE). DEFENCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS ENGLISH ADMIRERS, Against the Accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; Including Some Strictures On the Late Production of Mons. De Calonne. Third Edition, With Additions.. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London: 1791., 1791.

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Description: 378p. Page edges slightly browned. Bookplate of Earl of Carysfort, Elton Hall 1894, with his paper shelf label. 8vo. Original full leather binding, front joint fragile. "'Vindiciae Gallicae' was published in April 1791 in answer to Burke's 'Reflections' Three editions were speedily sold, and the publisher liberally gave Mackintosh 'several times' the sum of L30, originally stipulated. Burke had been answered with much power by Thomas Paine. Mackintosh's reply, however, taking a less radical ground, and showing much literary and philosophical culture, was the most effective defense of the position of the Whig sympathizers with the revolution. It was partly translated into French by the Duke of Orleans". [DNB]. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! FRENG 2 Language: eng

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Mackintosh, Sir James. Vindiciae Gallicae, Defence of the French Revolution and Its English.. , 1791.

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Description: London: Printed for G.G.J. And J. Robinson, 1791. An Important Defense of English Supporters of the French Revolution Mackintosh, Sir James [1765-1832]. Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers, Against the Accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; Including Some Strictures on the Late Productions of Mons. de Calonne. London: Printed for G.G.J. And J. Robinson, 1791. [iv], 351, [1] pp Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent marbled boards, calf lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to text, light foxing to a few leaves, light soiling to tile page, small chip to its lower corner. $250. * Second edition, published the same year as the first edition. A reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791) by the great Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. Three editions were speedily sold, and the publisher liberally gave Mackintosh 'several times' the sum of ?30, originally stipulated. Burke had been answered with much power by Thomas Paine. Mackintosh's reply, however, taking a less radical ground, and showing much literary and philosophical culture, was the most effective defense of the position of the Whig sympathizers with the revolution. It was partly translated into French by the Duke of Orleans" (DNB). A fourth edition was published in 1792. Dublin and Philadelphia issues, both without edition statements, were published in 1791 and 1792, respectively. Dictionary of National Biography XII:618. English Short-Title Catalogue T50908.

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MACKINTOSH, JAMES. Vindiciae Gallicae. Defence of the French Revolution and its English admirers against the accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; including some strictures on the late production of Mons. De Calonne. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1791.

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Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xiii, [1], [15]-351; contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked, old red morocco label preserved, hinges with cloth reinforcement, some early underlining of the text in pencil; good and sound. "Three editions were speedily sold, and the publisher liberally gave him 'several times' the sum of 30 pounds, originally stipulated. Burke had been answered with much power by Thomas Paine. Mackintosh's reply, however, taking a less radical ground, and showing much literary and philosophical culture, was the most effective defence of the position of the whig sympathizers with the revolution" (DNB).

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

James Mackintosh. Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers Against the Accusations of The Right Hon. Edmund Burke; Including Some Strictures on the Late Production of Mons De Calonne. Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robins, 1791.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: 1791. Hardcover. 1st edition. 351pp. Rebound in 1/2 analine calf on marbled boards, 7 gilt bands and 5 blind stamps, red gilt titled leather label to spine. Light tanning but text clear throughout. A more cultured and less radical answer to Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" than that provided by Thomas Paine in his celebrated "Rights of Man". . . . .

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PAINE (Thomas).. Rights of man : being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution. Seventh edition. Londres, J. S. Jordan, 1791, 1791.

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Description: in-8, x pp., pp. 7-172, veau fauve raciné, dos lisse cloisonné et richement orné, pièces de titre cerise, hachuré doré sur les coupes, tranches jaunes Les deux charnières entièrement fendues, des mouillures claires supra-paginales au second texte. (reliure de l'époque). Une des très nombreuses sorties de la première partie, données à la date de l'originale (parue le 16 mars 1791). En effet, le pamphlet se vendit à presque 50 000 exemplaires (soit environ 20 000 de plus que le titre de Burke, qui affichait déjà un beau succès - cf. infra). Quaker, sujet anglais engagé dans la Révolution américaine dans le sens de l'indépendance de la colonie, Thomas Paine fut condamné en Angleterre pour la publication de ses Rights of man. Attaquant farouchement le député conservateur et très populaire, Edmund Burke qui avait livré en 1790 une critique acérée des principes de la Révolution de 1789 (Reflections on the revolution in France), il fut contraint de se réfugier en France où il prit rapidement part au débat politique et devint membre de la Convention. Son ouvrage forme un long plaidoyer pour le principe de liberté, et ses applications à la vie politique de l'Angleterre, qui servit de schiboleth dans les revendications démocratiques du XIXe siècle. Une seconde partie paraîtra en 1792.L'ouvrage prenait la défense de la philosophie politique sous-jacente aux initiatives de l'Assemblée Nationale et connut ensuite en France comme en Angleterre un réel succès. Comme le livre de Burke fut lu au XIXe siècle par tous les auteurs opposés à la vision abstraite et aprioristique contenue dans la Déclaration des droits, la réponse de Paine fut de même le manuel obligé des partisans de la reconstruction permanente de la société autour de finalités rationnelles et générales.Printing and the mind of man, 241 (pour l'originale anglaise).RELIÉE À LA SUITE une critique moins connue de l'ouvrage de Burke : MACKINTOSH (James) : Vindiciae Gallicae. Defence of the French revolution and its English admirers, against the accusations of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ; including some strictures on the late production of Mons. de Calonne. The third edition, with additions. Londres, G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1791, [2] ff. n. ch. (titre, avertissement), xiii pp., pp. 15-205, pp. 203-378 [mal chiffrée 342]. C'est sur cette troisième édition que fut réalisée l'unique traduction française, intitulée Apologie de la révolution française (1792). Ces réflexions ont été composées après mûre réflexion en réponse aux Reflections de Burke : le médecin écossais James Mackintosh (1765-1832), whig de sensibilité libérale prononcée, fut très précocement intéressé par les événements de notre révolution, et il les suivit attentivement depuis 1788. C'est surtout un défenseur de la philosophie des droits de l'homme dans leur principe, et ses considérations lui valurent à la fois le respect de son contradicteur (Burke déclara que sa critique était la seule dont il acceptât de tenir compte), et le titre de citoyen français conféré par la Législative le 26 août 1792. Vignette ex-libris héraldique de Thomas Carter (1761-1835), d'Edgcott dans le Northamptonshire, contrecollée sur les premières gardes. Ce fut un membre du Parlement de 1796 à 1802.

Seller: Librairie Historique F. Teissèdre, PARIS, France

PAINE, THOMAS. Kurzer Abriß der Entstehung der französischen Revolution von Thomas Payne [so], einem Amerikaner. Mit Anmerkungen des Uebersetzers (JOHANN GOTTFRIED DYK).. Leipzig, im Verlage der Dykischen Buchhandlung, 1791.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: Leipzig, im Verlage der Dykischen Buchhandlung 1791. 163x100 mm. 132 S. Wenig späterer Halbleinenband mit vergoldetem Rückentitel und linien. Leicht berieben, Ecken etwas bestoßen. Erste (deutsche) Ausgabe (Price&Price, Humaniora S.137 [irrig: aus dem Englischen]; Dippel 549). Leicht gebräunt, teils leicht stockfleckig; kleiner alter Eignerstempel a.d. Titel. - Seltene erste (Teil-) Übersetzung von PAINE s epochalem Werk "Rights of Man". Vorlage war die französische Ausgabe, deren zweiter Teil erst 1792 erschien. Übersetzer war der Verleger J.G.DYK (1750 Leipzig 1813), der in seinen umfangreichen Anmerkungen exemplarisch für das konservative deutsche Bürgertum die Ablehnung der französischen Revolution und das völlige Unverständnis gegenüber deren emanzipatorischen Forderungen formuliert. "In der Vorrede bezeichnet DYK PAINE als 'politischen Schwärmer, wie die itzigen meisten Wortführer der französischen Nation, der Herrn BURKE entweder nicht verstanden hat, oder mit Fleiß nicht hat verstehen wollen'. PAINEs Schrift vollständig zu übersetzen, sei beinah ein so sonderbares Unternehmen, als die Declaration der Menschenrecht von der National-Versammlung, in dem jene wie diese Leuten, die über politisch-philosophische Materien nicht nachgedacht haben, die Köpfe verwirren kann'." (Braecklein, Kat.30 "Aufklärung und Revolution", #1166). Der Verlag Dyk (auch: Dyck) spielte späterhin eine "herausragende Mittlerrolle" in Hinsischt auf die Kenntnis des revolutionären Geschehens, jedoch war "diese breite mediale Vermittlung der Französischen Revolution . selektiv und insofern für die begrenzte Rezeptionsbereitschaft auf deutscher Seite bezeichnend" (R.Reichardt, Die Französische Revolution als europäisches Medienereignis, in: Europäische Geschichte Online; Mainz 2010).

Seller: Antiquariat Günther Trauzettel, Stolberg, Germany

Thomas Paine. Rights of Man; being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution. Sixth Edition. Printed for J. S. Jordan, N. 166, Fleet-Street, London, 1791.

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Description: 171, [1] pages. Hardcover bound in original boards. Both covers detached, and the binding is not holding together well with gatherings separating. Originally with a paper-covered spine, but the paper has completely chipped away. The sewing on the spine is broken. There are three remaining bands (likely of seven) at the top portion of the spine. and these bands are not secure, so the gatherings are easily falling apart. Complete with the Half Title (noting the price was Three Shillings). Original pamphlet stab holes seen in the gutter. The rear cover has been heavily damped, and there is evidence of old damping as well as mildew stains, mostly towards the rear and in the gutter and bottom edge. A later piece of paper has been placed loosely in between pages 110-111, resulting in browning at the gutter at the top, affecting the letters near the gutter of the first few lines. We grade this in Fair to Poor condition. The verso of the rear leaf advertises as "Just Published" Paine's "Common Sense" (a New Edition) and "A Letter to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America" (a New Edition). The Dedication page reads, "To George Washington, President of the United States / Sir, I Present you a small Treatise in defence of those Principles of Freedom which your exemplary Virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. --That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your Benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the Happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old, is the Prayer of / Sir, Your much obliged, and Obedient humble Servant, / Thomas Paine."

Seller: Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC, Clemmons, NC, U.S.A.

Paine, Thomas. Droits de L'Homme; En Reponse a L'Attaque de M. Burke Sur La Revolution Francois. [Rights of Man: Part the First Being An Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attach on the French Revolution].. Paris, Chez F. Buisson, 1791.

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Description: First French edition of Thomas Paine's classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism. Octavo, bound in contemporary one quarter calf over marbled boards. In very good condition. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Rare and desirable. "One of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world Thomas Paine wrote both parts of Rights of Man with the United States in mind Celebrating America and the extension of the struggle for liberty, equality and democracy to France Rights of Man became a phenomenal success in America" (Kaye, 4, 97-9). Paine finished the first part of Rights of Man on his 54th birthday, January 29, 1791, and the following day handed the manuscript to Johnson, a London publisher "who set about printing it in time for the opening of Parliament and Washington s birthday on February 22." Fearing governmental reprisals, Johnson halted its release compelling Paine to find another London publisher J.S. Jordan. Paine entrusted friends to supervise the publication and "packed his trunk for Paris, where he planned to arrange a French translation." The London edition of Rights of Man finally saw publication on March 13, 1791 and "made Paine the most controversial public figure of the day" (Keane, 304-6). Paine, then in France, had "brought with him from London a copy of the [original sheets] for translation into French" (Woodward, 199). With the publication of a new French edition of Common Sense and, in May 1791, the appearance Droits de l Homme [Rights of Man], French newspapers declared Paine "the most determined champion of republican principles." Paine's objective in Part I of Rights of Man "was to defend the cause of individual rights and liberty" (Fruchtman, 250-1). Rights of Man stands as "the earliest complete statement of republican principles. It set forth the fundamental ideas on which the American republic was founded" (Woodward, 211). Shortly after publication of Part I of Rights of Man, Paine began work on Part II, which appeared in February 1792.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Paine, Thomas. RIGHTS OF MAN: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. J.S. Jordan: London, 1791.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: 8.5 x 5.25", half leather; marbled boards, 162pp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities bumped and worn, spine rubbed, hinges a bit loose (but not cracked), former owner's bookplate inside front cover (Yeats Brown), front fep almost fully detached, pp toned with some scattered finger soiling, but still a nicely preserved copy of the FIRST EDITION, Second Issue (not published by Johnson, with 4pp Preface added). BOUND WITH: RIGHTS OF MAN Part Second, London 1792 ("Third Edition").

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Paine, Thomas. RIGHTS OF MAN [Bound with] RIGHTS OF MAN PART THE SECOND [Bound with TWO LETTERS TO LORD ONSLOW [Bound with] LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESSERS ON THE LATE PROCLAMATION. J.S. Jordan; James Ridgway; H. D. Symonds 1791; 1792, London, 1791.

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Description: Octavo, [4], [5], viii-x, [1], 8-171, [1], xv, [1], 178, [2], 36, [4], 78, [2] pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in 19th century three quarter calf, marbled paper boards. Mild wear and rubbing. Cracking to front hinge. Text block untrimmed. Four parts bound together, with paginations and registers restarting with new title pages. With a small slip of contemporary paper noting the parts bound in and noting that they are 'to be sewed in one volume'. Rights of Man, London: printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166. fleet-street, 1791. In this 'third edition' Paine is described on the titlepage as "Author of the works intitled "Common Sense" and "A letter to the Abbe Raynal"; With half-title. [Bound with] Rights of Man Part the Second, London : Printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1792. Fourth Edition. With half-title.; [Bound with] Paine, Thomas. Two Letters to Lord Onslow, London : Printed for James Ridgway, York-Street, St. James's Square, 1792. Sixth Edition.; [Bound with] Paine, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation, London : printed for H. D. Symonds, in Paternoster-Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, No. 7, upper Mary-Le-Bone-Street, 1792.; JP consignment. Shelved in Case 3. Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution in his Reflections infuriated Paine, who then rushed into print with his answer, The Rights of Man. Paine hoped this book would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America. He appropriately dedicated the first part to George Washington and the second part to the Marquis de Lafayette. Paine's response caused a furor in England; Paine was tried in absentia, and convicted of seditious libel against the Crown, but was unavailable for hanging, being in France and never returning to England. Rights of Man is the "textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy." [PMM 241]. ESTC: T143861, T169451, N34501, T5837; PMM: 241. 1345132. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

PAINE Thomas. Rights of Man. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second.. , 1791.

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Description: "PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Fourth Edition. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791, 1792. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter calf, marbled boards; pp. [iii-vii], viii-x, [7]-171, [2]; [i-v], vi, [vii], viii-xv, [xvi], [1], 2-174, [175], 176-178. $12,500.Rare fourth edition of Part I and second edition of Part II of Rights of Man, each published shortly after the first editions by J.S. Jordan, who published Part I after the original edition was suppressed and was arrested for publishing Part II. One of Paine’s most important, influential, and bestselling works, Rights of Man resulted in the prosecution in England of Paine, his publishers, and booksellers, forcing Paine to flee to France.Hoping Rights of Man "would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America," Paine answered Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution with his "celebrated answer, The Rights of Man" (Gimbel-Yale 59). Written "with a force and clarity unequalled even by Burke, Paine laid down those principles of fundamental human rights which must stand, no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them The government tried to suppress it, but it circulated the more briskly [Rights of Man is] the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy" (PMM 241). In this revolutionary work, "Paine's attack on monarchy went farther than he had attempted on Common Sense or the Crisis series Rights of Man was one of the most ardent and clear defenses of human rights, liberty and equality in any language Like Locke, Paine wrote that people have rights naturally, and as they joined together to form society and then government, they transformed a number of their natural rights into civil rights Rights of free speech, opinion, conscience, association (in America those rights became embodied in the first amendment to the Constitution in the same year the first part of the Rights of Man appeared) were all part of the natural rights which a properly constituted government must protect" (Fruchtman, 225).Paine's friends, Franklin, Jefferson, Washington and other Founding Fathers, it was Jefferson, in particular, who "evidently appreciated what America owed Paine and surely sensed how Paine's thinking had shaped his own. It was not only the Declaration of Independence that reflected Paine's influence. Jefferson's later work did as well Jefferson understood how much the Republican movement had depended on Paine's pen and the diverse folk inspired by it. In the spring of 1791 Jefferson had hailed the first part of Rights of Man" (Kaye, 92). In early 1792, when Paine sent him a first edition of Part the Second, Jefferson responded by writing a letter to Paine in praise. In it, Jefferson spoke of his distress at the rise in America of some who were "panting after an English constitution itching for crowns, coronets & mitres, but our people, my good friend, are firm and unanimous in their principles of republicanism, & there is no better proof of that than they love what you write and read it with delight go on then doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew [sic] that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man, and be assured that it has not a more sincere votary, nor you're a more ardent well-wisher than, Dear Sir Your friend & svt Th: Jefferson" (Sowerby 2826). Part I of Rights of Man was dedicated to George Washington and the first edition was to be published on his birthday, February 22, 1791, but publisher Joseph Johnson suppressed it because of intimidation by government agents. "Fearing the book police, and unnerved by the prospect of arrest and bankruptcy, Johnson suppressed the book on the very day of its scheduled publication. Alarmed by the prospect that the work would be stillborn, Paine reacted fast. He agreed to a deal with another publisher, J.S. Jordan on Fleet Street, and with the help of friends and a horse and cart delivered to him Johnson's printed, unbound sheets. Paine scurried around for the money to pay for the work He then packed his trunk for Paris" (Keane, 304-5). Jordan took Johnson's unbound sheets of text and added a new title page with Jordan's imprint and a preface that Paine sent him from Paris. Jordan published his edition (the first edition, second issue) on March 16, 1791, and it sold out in hours. "Curiosity and word-of-mouth advertising kept sales brisk. Jordan had set a new edition in type [the stated "second edition," with changes to the text and different pagination] and had it on the market three days after the first appeared. It sold out within a few hours" (Hawke, 223-4). "The book was a sensation, and at least eight editions were published by Jordan during 1791" (Gimbel-Yale 60). Rights of Man, Part the Second, was first published on February 16, 1792, also by Jordan. "Jordan's press continued to work around the clock, and within the next two weeks another four printings came off the press. The brightest and most powerful political skyrocket in English history had been launched" (Keane, 327). "Not even Paine could have imagined that Rights of Man was destined to become one of the best-selling books in the history of publishing [it] broke every extant publishing record" (Grogan, 18)."While the first part of The Rights of Man was relatively mild Part the Second fully developed his great political philosophy" (Gimbel-Yale 66). The British government considered prosecuting Paine for sedition shortly after the publication of Part I, but decided against it at the time because "Paine had tempered argument and language so skillfully that it would be hard to make a charge of sedition stick in court. To prosecute would provide free advertising" (Hawke, 223-4). But in 1792, after the publication of the more

Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Second Edition. [First American]. [Together with] Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principles and Practice.. Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, Philadelphia, 1791.

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Description: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Second Edition. [First American]. Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1791. [Together with] PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principles and Practice. Second Philadelphia edition. Philadelphia: Printed by and For Messrs. Printed by and for Messr. H. and P. Rice, no. 50, Market-Street, and S.H. Smith, 1792. First American Edition of part one of Thomas Paine's famous work, Rights of Man, printed the same year as the first London edition. Second American edition, printed the same year as the first American of part two. Misunderstandings of which edition Part one is are common as the title-page states Second edition, although it is the first printing in America. "The full title of the first American printing, designated on the title-page as the 'Second Edition, reads Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution, by Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress in the American War and author of the work intitled Common Sense. Philadelphia: Re-printed by Samuel Harrison Smith. M.DCC.XCI. While TJ ordered three or four copies of this edition, none owned by him is known to exist. See Sowerby, No. 2826." ("Editorial Note: Rights of Man: The "Contest of Burke and Paine . in America" Founders Online, National Archives). It is our assumption that because Smith was a relatively new printer, he printed "Second Edition" on the title-page as this was it's second time being printed, even thought it was the first time it was printed in America. The second American edition states "Second Philadelphia edition, from fourth London edition, corrected and enlarged" and contains one less page. Octavo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 206 x 123 mm). [1]-105, [1, blank]; viii,[1],10-96 pp. Part one is dedicated to George Washington as in Jordan's London editions and part two is dedicated to the Marquis de Lafayette. The last true first London edition to sell at auction (one of just about 100 copies that were sold before the run was recalled hours after release) which was a 1st edition of part one and a 2nd edition of part two, sold for $250,000. Here we have the first American first edition of part one. We could find no other copy besides this current copy at auction since 1911. Two volumes bound together in full maroon morocco. Boards and spine elaborately tooled in gilt. Spine with black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Text block of part one with some minor toning and part two with some mild spotting as expected of American paper from this time. Minor corner stain to outer lower corner on pages 97-106. Overall a very good copy of both parts. About 4 weeks after Jordan's London edition was printed, a few copies arrived in Pennsylvania and one such copy landed in the hands of Thomas Jefferson by way of James Madison who had received it from John Beckley whom has initiated arrangements for publication in Philadelphia. Beckley requested Jefferson return the copy to J.B. Smith (the printer's father) when he had finished reading it. There was a bit of confusion to Jefferson as to the identity of JB Smith, thinking instead he was the printer's brother and therefore a stranger to Jefferson. Jefferson dashed off a note to accompany the book back to Smith and upon receipt of the published pamphlet just days later, Jefferson was "thunderstruck" to see excerpts from his note printed in the publisher's preface. Samuel Smith quoted Jefferson who stated "I am extremely pleased to find it will be reprinted here, and that something is at length to be publicly said against the political heresies which have sprung up among us. I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense." Smith did not name Jefferson but rather identified him as Secretary of State. "In identifying the Secretary of State as the one who had transmitted 'a copy of this Pamphlet for republication' and omitting the explanation that this had been done at Beckley's desire, Smith permitted his readers the plausible inference that it was Jefferson who had sponsored publication of the pamphlet." ("Editorial Note: Rights of Man: The "Contest of Burke and Paine . in America" Founders Online, National Archives). Jefferson's statement as published without approval no doubt sparked much conflict between those whos views sided with Jefferson and those who felt as if they were being accused of "heresy." "Thus introduced, Paine's Rights of Man fell like a thunderclap on the quiet capital. The expressions of the Secretary of State more than the pamphlet itself, we may be sure, took precedence in the political gossip of the boardinghouses, the taverns and the Philadelphia dinner tables." ("Editorial Note: Rights of Man: The "Contest of Burke and Paine . in America" Founders Online, National Archives). ESTC W36410, W36434. Evans 23664, 24654. Printing and the Mind of Man 241. HBS 68485. $14,500.

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, Philadelphia, 1791.

Price: US$17500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: An exceptional survivor in wrappers as issued. With both issue points present: stating "Second Edition" on the title page and containing the infamous "Jefferson extract." Measuring 220 x 140mm and collating complete: [1]-105, [1, blank]. With general toning and light soiling throughout. Contemporary ownership signature to title page, with loss to paper (but no text) where a prior owner's name has been defaced. Edges and upper right corner chipping and bumped; rear leaf present but detached, with loss including text from a portion of the upper left corner. The last true first London edition to sell at auction (one of just about 100 copies that were sold before the run was recalled hours after release) which was a 1st edition of part one and a 2nd edition of part two, sold for $250,000. Here we have the first American edition of part one. ESTC records copies at only 14 institutions, all within the U.S. We could find only one other copy in the modern auction record. [Together with]. Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. Part the Second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792. Fourth Edition. Collating complete; xv, [1], 178. Bound, like its companion, in original printed wrappers and measuring 220 x 140mm. Paper at header of title page removed, likely to prevent ownership identification. With general toning and light soiling throughout; edges somewhat chipped. Loss of paper to rear wrap. Together a pair of exceptional survivors. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. The circumstances surrounding the first American edition of Rights of Man (denoted by its Second Edition statement on the title page and the presence of the unlicensed extract of Thomas Jefferson's private letter about it) were marked by exceptional speed. "The first printing of Rights of Man appeared in London on 22 February 1791, a date which prompted Paine to tip the dedication to the President into the first bound copies. That issue was recalled by the publisher within a few hours, but not until more than one hundred copies had been sold" (National Archives). Stateside, a copy reached the hands of John Beckley, who shared it with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. As a result of these swift exchanges, Beckley's instructions for Jefferson to send the pamphlet to merchant and revolutionary Jonathan Bayard Smith resulted in Smith's son, nineteen year old printer Samuel Harrison Smith, producing the first American edition of Rights of Man. "The work was speedily issued" and released on "Tuesday, the 3rd of May.Exactly one week had elapsed since Jefferson transmitted Beckley's copy to the father of the publisher" (National Archives). Marked "Second Edition" on its title page, Harrison's publication identified "the Secretary of State as the one who had ‘transmitted a copy of this Pamphlet for republication' and in omitting the explanation that this had been done at Beckley's desire, Smith permitted his readers the inference that it was Jefferson who had sponsored the publication" (National Archives). Controversy ensued. Among the results were Smith's reprinting of an altered text, marked as the "Second Philadelphia edition, from fourth London edition, corrected and enlarged" and containing one less page: removing the notorious Jefferson extract. "The Rights of Man was one of the most widely read books of its time. In it, Paine argues that human rights depend on nature, and that charters, with an implication that they are granted and can therefore be withdrawn, can have no basis in law. Hereditary government, dependent on Edmund Burke's idea of the ‘hereditary wisdom' of the ruling classes, is clearly divisive rather than benevolent and is, therefore wrong; Paine's assertion is that a nation should be able to choose its own government, and that the role of government is to protect the family and their inherent rights" (British Library). The arrival of Paine's work in the new American republic - and its being read and discussed among Founding Fathers - led to Paine's political thought taking a crucial role in shaping the U.S. founding documents and institutions. ESTC W36410. Evans 23664. Printing and the Mind of Man 241. Very Good.

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