Common sense
Subtitle: or, Natural ideas opposed to supernatural
By: Translated from the French
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29820
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Printed at New-York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Atheism
Work titles: Bon-sens
Notes: Translation of Paul Henri Thiry baron d'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 29821), the place of publication is given as Philadelphia. Probably both are deceptive. Page [204] contains a copyright notice by "Isaiah Thomas the third" of the "District of Massachusetts." This also is 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 p. [11] is not found in works printed by Thomas ca. 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 Leonard Worcester, who printed at Thomas' press both for Thomas and under his own name.

Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁶.

"All located copies have the derogatory statement about priests cut out of p. 137."--Shipton & Mooney.

"Errata."--p. [204].

Evans 29820