The American crisis. Number III : By the author of Common sense.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.

Standardized Title:

American crisis. Number 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Early works to 1800.

United States.

Genre:

Addresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (p. [25]-56 )

Other Title:

American crisis. Number III

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-Street, six doors above Arch-Street. Where also may be had no. I. and II, [1777]

Notes:

Signed on p. 56: Common sense. Philadelphia, April 19, 1777. Attributed to Thomas Paine in the Dictionary of American biography.

Advertised in the Philadephia evening post, Apr. 29, 1777.

Two states of the gatherings C, D, and E noted by Edwin Wolf in his article "Evidence indicating the need for some bibliographical analysis of American-printed works" in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of American, v. 63 (1969), p. 267: in the first state (Evans 15494), p. 28, line 20 reads "men;", p. 29, line 31 ends "actual", p. 31, line 11 reads "miserly", p. 36, line 20 reads "'The'", p. 38, line 4 reads "hand", and there is no erratum at the foot of p. 49; in the second state (not in Evans) p. 28, line 20 reads "men:", p. 29, line 31 ends "re-", p. 31, line 11 reads "miserable", p. 36, line 20 reads "'The'", p. 38, line 4 reads "Hand", and there is a line of errata at the foot of p. 49.

Signatures: C-F⁴.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 15494

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3595

English Short Title Catalog, W31713.

OCLC:

642789078