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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.
- Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820, author.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Standardized Title:
- Bon-sens. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atheism.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16⁰
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Printed at New-York. [publisher not identified], 1795.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- 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 p. [11] is not found in works printed by Thomas ca. 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 & Mooney.
- "Errata."--p. [204].
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 29820
- English Short Title Catalog, W30577.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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