Common sense: or, Natural ideas opposed to supernatural : [Two lines in Latin from Petronius] / Translated from the French.

Author/creator Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry
Other author Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinted at Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], 1795.
Description203 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (16mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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Uniform titleBon sens du curé Meslier. English
SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 29821. ^A478749
General noteTranslation of Holbach's Le bon sens; ou Idées naturelles opposées aux idées surnaturelles. Incorrectly attributed to Constantin Volney by Evans.
General noteApparently a false imprint. On the title page of another issue (Evans 29820), the place of publication is given as New York. Probably both are deceptive. Page [204] contains a copyright notice by "Isaiah Thomas the third" of the "District of Massachusetts."This is also 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 Leornard Worcester, who printed at Thomas' press both for Thomas and under his own name.
General noteError in paging: p. 76 misnumbered 67.
General noteOf the issue with the New York imprint Shipton & Mooney note that "All located copies have the derogatory statement about priests cut out of p. 137." The same is true of the American Antiquarian Society copy of the present issue.
General note"Errata."--p. [204].
References Evans 29821
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29821).

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