Thomas Paine - Rights of Man - 1979
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Rights of Man, an illustrated, limited Easton Press edition (1979) in full genuine leather binding with a deep navy cover, 300 pages, featuring Lynd Ward illustrations, gilt page edges, a silk ribbon marker, and a frontispiece portrait of Thomas Paine, printed and bound in the United States.
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Thomas Paine – Rights of Man – Easton Press – 1979
100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was born in Norfolk, England, and worked as a corset-maker and excise officer before emigrating to America in 1774 with a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Within two years he had published Common Sense, the most widely read political pamphlet of the American Revolution, arguing directly for independence in language accessible to ordinary readers. He went on to serve the revolutionary cause through a series of essays collected as The Crisis, whose opening sentence entered the common memory. He later took a seat in the French National Convention, narrowly escaped the guillotine, and returned to the United States only in 1802, dying in New York seven years later in diminished circumstances.
Rights of Man was published in two parts in London in 1791 and 1792 as Paine's response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Where Burke defended inherited institutions and the continuity of tradition, Paine argued from first principles: that governments derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed, that hereditary rule is a form of usurpation, and that the goal of the state is the freedom and happiness of its citizens. The book immediately sold in enormous numbers on both sides of the Atlantic and prompted the British government to indict Paine for seditious libel. This edition follows the text as edited by Moncure D. Conway.
The illustrations are by Lynd Ward, the American artist and wood-engraver whose powerful figurative style was widely used in the fine press editions of the mid-twentieth century. The introduction is by Howard Fast.
- Full genuine leather binding in deep navy
- Front cover with all-over gold-stamped design of five-pointed stars within a single border frame
- Spine with raised bands, gold-stamped star and scroll ornaments, and gold script lettering
- Gilt page edges
- Silk ribbon marker
- Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Paine, specially commissioned for this edition
- Printed and bound in the United States of America
Condition is fine.
Ships from Germany. Carefully packed in cardboard book mailer with protective wrapping.
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man – Easton Press – 1979
100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was born in Norfolk, England, and worked as a corset-maker and excise officer before emigrating to America in 1774 with a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Within two years he had published Common Sense, the most widely read political pamphlet of the American Revolution, arguing directly for independence in language accessible to ordinary readers. He went on to serve the revolutionary cause through a series of essays collected as The Crisis, whose opening sentence entered the common memory. He later took a seat in the French National Convention, narrowly escaped the guillotine, and returned to the United States only in 1802, dying in New York seven years later in diminished circumstances.
Rights of Man was published in two parts in London in 1791 and 1792 as Paine's response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Where Burke defended inherited institutions and the continuity of tradition, Paine argued from first principles: that governments derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed, that hereditary rule is a form of usurpation, and that the goal of the state is the freedom and happiness of its citizens. The book immediately sold in enormous numbers on both sides of the Atlantic and prompted the British government to indict Paine for seditious libel. This edition follows the text as edited by Moncure D. Conway.
The illustrations are by Lynd Ward, the American artist and wood-engraver whose powerful figurative style was widely used in the fine press editions of the mid-twentieth century. The introduction is by Howard Fast.
- Full genuine leather binding in deep navy
- Front cover with all-over gold-stamped design of five-pointed stars within a single border frame
- Spine with raised bands, gold-stamped star and scroll ornaments, and gold script lettering
- Gilt page edges
- Silk ribbon marker
- Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Paine, specially commissioned for this edition
- Printed and bound in the United States of America
Condition is fine.
Ships from Germany. Carefully packed in cardboard book mailer with protective wrapping.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Literature
Book title
Rights of Man
Author/ Illustrator
Thomas Paine
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
1979
Edition
Illustrated Edition, Limited edition
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Easton Press
Binding/ Material
Leather
Number of pages
300
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