Common sense
Subtitle: with the whole appendix: the address to the Quakers: also, the Large additions, and A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery, just arrived from the Elysian Fields; and an American delegate in a wood, near Philadelphia: on the grand subject of American independancy
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 14966
Publisher: Printed, and sold, by R. Bell, in Third-Street.
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Political science; Monarchy; Politics and government
Notes: Half-title: Common sense; with the whole appendix, the address to the Quakers; also, the Large additions complete. (Price three shillings.)

"Common sense" attributed to Thomas Paine in the Dictionary of American biography. The appendix and address to the Quakers are the work of Paine; the "Large additions" and the Dialogue are not.

Signatures: pi² [A]² B-L⁴ chi-2chi² 3chi1 N-T⁴ U²; pi² A⁴ [B]².

"Common sense ... The third edition. ..."--[4], 79, [1] p., with separate title page. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [80].

"Large additions to Common sense ..."--[3], 82-[148] p., with separate title page. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [88].

"A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery just arrived from the Elysian Fields; and an American delegate, in a wood near Philadelphia."--16 p., 2nd count. Pages [1-2] contain "Robert Bell, bookseller, to the public."

Evans 14966

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3435

Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 222e