Common sense: or, Natural ideas opposed to supernatural : [Two lines in Latin from Petronius] /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Printed at Philadelphia :
[publisher not identified],
1795.
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| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 29821. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Translation of 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 29820), the place of publication is given as New York. Probably both are deceptive. Page [204] contains a copyright notice by "Isaiah Thomas the third" of the "District of Massachusetts."This is also 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 page [11] is not found in works printed by Thomas approximately 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 Leornard Worcester, who printed at Thomas' press both for Thomas and under his own name. Error in paging: page 76 misnumbered 67. Of the issue with the New York imprint Shipton & Mooney note that "All located copies have the derogatory statement about priests cut out of page 137." The same is true of the American Antiquarian Society copy of the present issue. "Errata."--page [204]. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 203 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm. (1sexto) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |