[Rarebooks] FS: 1792 First Edition of THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE

[Charles Agvent]

PAINE, Thomas. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, Secretary for Foreign 
Affairs to the Congress of the United States of America, in the Late 
War. Albany, NY: Charles R. and George Webster, (1792). First Edition. 
Small quarto (5" x 7-3/4") bound in original sheep with a gilt-lettered 
burgundy morocco spine label; xii, 60, [2], 186, 41, [3], vi-vii, [2], 
10-70, [2], 24, [2], 124, [2] pages. Contains 1. Common Sense; Addressed 
to the Inhabitants of America (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and 
George Webster, 1791); 2. The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written 
During the Late War (Albany: Printed & Sold, by Charles R. & George 
Webster, 1792); 3. Public Good: Being an Examination into the Claim of 
Virginia, to the Vacant Western Territory, and of the Right of the 
United States to the Same (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George 
Webster, [n.d.]). 4. Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs 
of North-America (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, 
[n.d.]). 5. Letters, by the Author of Common Sense. First, to the Earl 
of Shelburne. Second, To Sir Guy Carlton. Third, To the Authors of “The 
Republican,” a French Paper. Fourth, To the Abbe Syeyes (Albany: Printed 
by Charles R. & George Webster, 1792). 6. Rights of Man: Being an Answer 
to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. The Fourth American 
Edition (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and George Webster, [n.d.]). 
The first collected American edition of “The Crisis,” the first time 
individual numbers were printed together in America. “Crisis” as issued 
with page 180 misnumbered 178 and Numbers 10 and 12 omitted, as the 
printers were unable to obtain a copy of the text. Of the articles in 
“The Crisis,” only 5 were issued in pamphlet form, with the others 
appearing only in newspapers. After publishing articles numbered I-IX, 
Paine did not assign number X, though in its place he published “The 
Crisis Extraordinary”, which was followed by number XI. He skipped 
number XII and called the final article in the series “The Last Crisis, 
Number XIII.” Although 9 parts are listed on the general title page, 4 
of them--the Letters in Section 5 above--are included as one part. HOWES 
P-34 states that the First Edition consists of 7 separately paginated 
sections totaling 517 pages, and the Second Edition consists of 9 
sections totaling 623 pages. This copy has 9 sections totaling 517 
pages. Signed on the title page by a listed subscriber, John Williams of 
Salem, in 1793, with an interesting small printed bookplate of the table 
of contents of the book. The first half of the "Rights of Man" is more 
browned than the rest of the book's text, but generally clean overall in 
a nice original binding with some loss at the spine tips, mainly the 
head, and minor worming to the front cover. Very Good to Near Fine. 
(#021252)        $7,500

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