• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Common sense : addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects: I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections
  • Contributor: Paine, Thomas [Author]; Bradford, Thomas [printer.]; Bradford, William [printer.]
  • imprint: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by W. and T. Bradford, M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776] (Price one British shilling)
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. [Two lines from Thomson]
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (99,[1]p); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Meeting for Sufferings Ancient testimony and priniciples of the people called Quakers renewed, with respect to the king and government ; Monarchy ; Political science ; United States Politics and government 1775-1783
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Adams, T.R. Amer pamphlets, 222g
    Attributed to Thomas Paine in the Dictionary of American biography
    Bristol, B4310
    English Short Title Catalog, W5005
    Error in paging: p. 78 misnumbered 69
    Parentheses subsitituted for square brackets enclosing "Price one British shilling." - In line 15 of title, the word "Added" is capitalized. In another state, the word "added" is not capitalized. Several other minor differences between the two states are recorded in: Gimbel, Richard. Thomas Paine: a bibliographical check list of Common sense, entries CS-14 and CS-15. Gimbel suggests that this edition may have been printed in Dublin, or perhaps London
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    Shipton & Mooney, 43121