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Common sense : with the whole appendix : the address to the Quakers : also, the large additions, and a dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery, just arrived from the Elysian Fields : and an American delegate in a wood, near Philadelphia : on the grand subject of American independency.

Accession number
PML 3627
Creator
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Published
Philadelphia : Printed, and Sold, by R. Bell, in Third-street, 1776.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery just arrived from the Elysian Fields; and an American delegate, in a wood near Philadelphia"--16 p., 2nd count. Pages [1-2] contain "Robert Bell, bookseller, to the public."
"Common sense .. The third edition ..."--[4], 79, [1] p., with separate title page. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [80].
"Common sense" attributed to Thomas Paine. The appendix and address to the Quakers are the work of Paine; the "Large additions" and the Dialogue are not. Cf. ESTC.
"Large additions to Common sense ..."--[3], 82-[148] p., with separate title page. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [88].
Formerly attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Cf. Sowerby.
Half-title: Common sense; with the whole appendix, the address to the Quakers; also, the Large additions complete. (Price three shillings.).
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-L⁴ chi1 [M]⁴ N-T⁴ U² pi2 ²A⁶.
Description
[8], 79, [4], 82-147, [6], 6-16 p. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Charles Congdon; from the Theodore Irwin collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Three-quarter brown leather in cloth slipcase.
Classification
Department