Plain truth
Subtitle: addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing, remarks on a late pamphlet, entitled Common sense ...
By: written by Candidus.
Contributors: Rationalis.; Smith, William, 1727-1803.; Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.; Chalmers, George, 1742-1825.; Chalmers, James, 1727?-1806.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed, and sold, by R. Bell, in Third-street
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
Other titles: Colonial pamphlets.; Additions to Plain truth.
Notes: Attributed to James Chalmers. Erroneously attributed to William Smith, George Chalmers, Alexander Hamilton, and others. Cf. ESTC.
Initial leaf preceding t.p. reads: "The printer to the public on the freedom of the press".
Added special t.p. reads: Additions to Plain truth, addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing, further remarks on a late pamphlet entitled Common sense ... written by the author of Plain truth ... Philadelphia : Printed, and sold, by R. Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXVI.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-L⁴ M⁸ N-P⁴ [Q]⁸.
A reply to Common sense signed "Rationalis": p. [75]-86.
"Extract from the second letter to the people of Pennsylvania, being that part of it which relates to independency. By a writer under the signature of 'Cato'" (pseud. of Rev. William Smith): p. [87]-96.
LC copy in bound collection of pamphlets with binder's title: Colonial pamphlets. Shelved under Sowerby no. 3112-3116.
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3113
ESTC W42196