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Description: Octavo. 152p. Second edition. Rebound in later quarter beige cloth. Marbled boards. Complementary work to Paine's Rights of Man, published just before Part II. Overshadowed by Thomas Paine, Barlow's treatise is a well composed political pamphlet against the remnants of Europe's feudal systems. Using allusions to the American Revolution, Barlow argues that elites in Europe should embrace the inevitability of the reforms occurring in France, producing long-term benefits for all of society in the end. A sensible political pamphlet has prejudised me in his favour. Mary Wollstonecraft (Letter to William Roscoe, 1792). Lacking pages 153-156p. Some pencil marginalia. Sabin 3414
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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"
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Description: The second edition of the first part of Joel Barlow's political pamphlet, arguing in favour of the French Revolution. The second edition of the first part of this two part work. Scarce in all eighteenth century editions.Barlowe's somewhat incendiary political pamphlet argues for the destruction of the remaining feudal systems in Europe, with a specific focus on the merits of the French Revolution. He argues that political reform would benefit all of society, and uses the example of the American Revolution as evidence of this.ESTC T21074With an advertisement leaf to the rear. In the publisher's original paper wraps.The work of American poet, diplomat, and politician Joel Barlow. Barlow supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian republican. His works are often studied alongside Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man'. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Loss of paper to back strip head, and to centre of back strip. Mark to rear wrap. Closed tears to front wrap at joint. Internally, binding lightly strained. Pages clean and bright. Good
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Description: Thomas Paine, Letter to the Abbé Raynal on the Affairs of North-America in which the Mistakes in the Abbe s Account of the Revolution of America are Corrected and Cleared up, London: J. Ridgway 1792 This work was written during 1782 to rebut French historian Raynal s 1780 analysis of the cause and want of significance of the American Revolution. Thomas Paine argued that the cause went far beyond objections to being taxed by the British and contended that the colonists rebellion was revolutionary in that they had irreversibly altered both the structure of government and the popular perceptions of the legitimacy of state power. This letter marked the expansion of Paine s thinking to include the establishment of international free trade and the need for worldwide peace. Paine valued this fruit of his pen so highly that he sent 50 copies to George Washington. This iteration has a postscript. Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal, abbé de Raynal (1713-1796), was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. (Wikipedia.) As a propagandist he helped set the intellectual climate for the French Revolution. 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.) Historians credit Paine s 1776 publication of Common Sense, which he allowed others to reprint, with galvanizing public opinion for independence which led to the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and the United States becoming an independent non-monarchical nation. Paine s importance to the cause was cemented by the first issue of The Crisis which George Washington had read aloud to the army he commanded. Without Paine s pen, the war might well have been lost almost as soon as it began. 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. After 1782, Paine was known to introduce himself as the author of Common Sense and this Letter. This volume has a pink with red droplets modern hard cover binding. All pages are intact, clean, and no one has written upon them. The print is small.
Seller: Paines Pen, Guerneville, CA, U.S.A.
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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.)
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Description: Sixth London edition of Paine's Rights of Man (the year of first publication), bound with the first and only edition of White's Rational Freedom, a scarce and impassioned condemnation of Paine, in a volume of five political works. 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. The publication, at a time when there were real fears that popular revolution would occur in England, caused a great stir. Various pamphlets opposing Paine were published, including White's particularly vehement Rational Freedom. White, who brands Paine a "political quack", takes umbrage with Paine's opposition towards the British constitution and his republican sentiments. To this end White presents an abstract of the history of British monarchy and government to defend the nation's constitution and its superiority to the republican system. The work is very scarce, with ESTC locating only five copies, and WorldCat only adding a further two. Bound with four others: i) THOMPSON, Thomas. Tithes indefensible: Or, Observations on the origin and effects of tithes. Addressed to country gentlemen. York : Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman: sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London; and by Wilson & Co. W. Tesseyman, and J. Todd, York, 1792. First edition, "urging reform of a system that penalized farmers in the name of maintaining an often more prosperous clergy, and which asked less of wealthy merchants such as himself" (ODNB). ii) GERRALD, Joseph. A Convention the Only Means of Saving us from Ruin. In a letter, addressed to the people of England. London: printed for D. I. Eaton, 1793. First edition, another radical work, proposing a national convention to reform the country, and opposing the war with France. iii) FOX, Charles James. A Letter From the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, to the worthy and independent electors of the city and liberty of Westminster. London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1793. Second edition (a reissue of the first edition sheets with new title page). Pitt's great rival Fox writes to his constituents, defending his questioning of the government's summoning of a militia following political disturbance. ESTC T5870 (Paine); ESTC T168229 (White); T118848 (Thompson); T34053 (Gerrald); T37956 (Fox). 5 works bound in 1 volume, octavo (208 x 126 mm). Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt on red morocco label, earlier volume series number in gilt to spine (2), marbled sides. Without half-titles, save for Fox's Letter. Binding with light wear at spine ends, splitting at head of joints but holding firm. Rights of Man with short closed tear at head of title page and small chips to terminal two leaves with minor loss to text. Occasional light foxing or soiling, generally clean. Very good.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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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.
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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.
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