43 55PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Fourth Edition. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second. The Second Edition. London, 1791, 1792. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter calf. $12,500 Rare fourth edition of Part I and second edition of Part II of Rights of Man, each published shortly after the first editions by J.S. Jordan. One of Paine’s most influential works, Rights of Man resulted in the prosecution in England of Paine, his publishers, and booksellers, forcing Paine to flee to France. Hoping to "do for England what his Common Sense had done for America,” Paine answered Edmund Burke’s attack on the French Revolution with his “celebrated answer, The Rights of Man” (GimbelYale 59). "Paine laid down those principles of fundamental human rights which must stand, no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them… The government tried to suppress it, but it circulated the more briskly… [Rights of Man is] the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy” (PMM 241). Part I with “Fourth Edition” stated on title page, issued very soon after the first edition. Part the Second with “The Second Edition” stated on title page. Text clean and fine, joints and corners lightly rubbed, binding sound. A handsome copy. “These Are The Times That Try Men’s Souls” 56PAINE, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Paine. Albany, New York, 1792. Octavo, contemporary full brown sheep, dark red morocco spine label. $9500 First edition of the collected Writings of Thomas Paine, printed in Albany in 1792, containing the important first collected American edition of The Crisis, with rarely found general title page and list of Subscriber’s Names, including leaders such as James Madison, his future Vice-President, Elbridge Gerry, and Nathan Hale. This important early collection contains nine of Paine’s most significant writings. All of the individually printed works are the first Albany printings. Included is the 1792 first collected American edition of The Crisis, one of Paine’s most seminal works. “When Washington’s troops floundered in the War of Independence to which Paine had given birth, he rejuvenated the dispirited soldiers” with The Crisis, “opening with the flaming watchword ‘These are the times that try men’s souls.’ Washington was so impressed that he ordered it read to all the troops at Valley Forge” (Gimbel-Yale 405). This 1792 Albany printing of The Crisis is the first time the individual numbers were printed together in America. Occasional light embrowning. Expert restoration to contemporary binding. An exceptional copy. Rare. “The Clearest Of All Expositions Of The Basic Principles Of Democracy” (PMM)
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