| Item Description: | "Additions to Plain truth .. written by the author of Plain truth .."--[9], 98-136 p. at end, with separate title page, p. [7]. - "The printer to the public: on the freedom of the press."--p. [1-2]. With a bookseller's advertisement, p. [2]. - Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 208c. - Attributed to James Chalmers by T.R. Adams. Erroneously attributed to William Smith, George Chalmers, Alexander Hamilton, and others. - Bookseller's advertisements, p. 96, 136. - Bristol, B4190. - Bristol, B4191. - Bristol, B4192. - Dedicated to John Dickinson. - English Short Title Catalog, W27653. - Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3345. - Includes also a critique of Common sense, signed Rationalis, and Cato's [i.e., William Smith's] second letter to the people of Pennsylvania. - Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). - Shipton & Mooney, 43000. - Shipton & Mooney, 43001. - Shipton & Mooney, 43002. - Three states noted by Adams, in addition to the four states without the Additions. Cf. his "Authorship and printing of Plain truth by 'Candidus."' Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 49 (1955): 230-248. Another state, not mentioned in Adams, has 98-135, [3] p. at end. Pages [137-138] have "The printer to the public .." and a bookseller's advertisement |
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