Item Description: | Comprises Nos.1-10, 12 and 14 and "The crisis extraordinary", some signed C.S. or Common Sense. - English Short Title Catalog, N1500. - In this issue: verso of titlepage has two resolutions of Congress concerning Paine. - No.1 of this edition is from the London "Crisis" and is not by Thomas Paine; No.1 of the original American edition is here published as No.2 and the others are renumbered accordingly. - Reprint. Originally published irregularly in various American cities and in London: 1776-1777; probably first published in Philadelphia. - Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). - Sabin, 58209 |