Common sense: or, Natural ideas opposed to supernatural. : [Two lines in Latin from Petronius] / Translated from the French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789, author.

Contributor:

Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29820.

Standardized Title:

Bon sens du curé Meslier. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Atheism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

Printed at New-York. : [publisher not identified], 1795.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Translation of Paul Henri Thiry baron d'Holbach's Le bon-sens; ou Idées naturelles opposées aux idées surnaturelles. Incorrectly attributed to Constantin Volney by Evans.

Apparently a false imprint. On the title page of another issue (Evans 29821), the place of publication is given as Philadelphia. Probably both are deceptive. Page [204] contains a copyright notice by "Isaiah Thomas the third" of the "District of Massachusetts." This also is a fabrication. The printers Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) and his son Isaiah (1773-1819), both of Worcester, Mass., had no progeny of the same name. The ornamental headband on pages [11] is not found in works printed by Thomas circa 1790-1799, though he did use others reminiscent of it in design and execution. It is, however, a slightly differing copy of one frequently employed during this period by Leonard Worcester, who printed at Thomas' press both for Thomas and under his own name.

"All located copies have the derogatory statement about priests cut out of p. 137."--Shipton and Mooney.

"Errata."--p. [204].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 29820).

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Evans 29820

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