Title: The religion of the sun, a posthumous poem, of Thomas Paine, with a preface, by the proprietor
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">12mo. pp. [2], pp. 28. Signatures: [pi]2 A6 B6 C2. Later tan cloth spine and paste-paper boards. Stamps of “Frederick College Library (number 354),” twice on front pastedown and twice on title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition (American Imprints 25651) of this long and fairly incomprehensible poem allegedly written by Thomas Paine, the manuscript of which, it is further alleged, was found in a secondhand bookstore in Philadelphia by Samuel Yorke Atlee, who has provided a brief preface, signed “S. Y. A.,” explaining the circumstances of its discovery, all of which is apparently apocryphal. See also A. O. Aldridge, “The Poetry of Thomas Paine” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 79 (1955), 1, pp. 81-99.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1744195" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>