Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, W31716. - Evans, 15493. - Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3595. - Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Signed on p. 24: Common sense. Philadelphia, January 13, 1777. Attributed to Thomas Paine in the Dictionary of American biography. - Two states noted by Edwin Wolf, with part of the inner forme reset. Cf. "Evidence indicating the need for some bibliographic analysis of American-printed historical works." PBSA 63 (1969): 267 |