[Rarebooks] fa: WILIAM HODGSON/THOMAS PAINE - Commonwealth of Reason + Reflections on Lord Clive + Deism

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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William Hodsgon: The Commonwealth of Reason. Written by William Hodgson, Esq. who was Confined Two Years in Newgate on a Charge of Sedition. London: Thomas Davison, 1820. First edition thus. [4], 46 pp. + [2] pp. of publisher's adverts. [BOUND WITH:] T. Whitworth: An Apology for Deism; or A Candid Review of the Modern Popular System of Christianity. London: T. Davison, 1820. First edition. x, 42 pp. [BOUND WITH:] The Life of David; or, The History of the Man after God's own Heart. Reprinted from the edition of 1766. London: J. Carlile, 1820. First edition thus. London: xvi, 68 pp. [BOUND WITH:] A Short Way with the Deist; or, Sound Reasons for being a Christian. London: T. Davison, 1819. First edition. 8 pp. [BOUND WITH:] Thomas Paine: Reflections on the Life and Death of Lord Clive. London: William Clark, 1820. First edition. 8 pp.

A bound collection of five scarce pamphlets issued by ultra-radical publishers Thomas Davison, Richard Carlile and William Clark. Included is the first separate printing of Paine's Reflections on Lord Clive, which originally appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine in 1775. Dr. William Hodgson was a writer, translator and Jacobin pamphleteer in the 1790s. His Commonwealth of Reason, a systematic plan for "a Commonwealth to be founded on the broad and durable basis of reason, liberty, fraternity, and equality," was first published in 1795.

Bound in recent french wraps with printed title labels; 8vo (21 cm.). Browning to the title-pages; first title-page with some shallow chipping to the edges and the ink stamp of Meadville Theological School; intermittent toning to the leaves throughout, a few with spotting or small touches of soiling, but generally clean and sound, firmly bound.