| Uniform title | Bon sens du curé Meslier. English |
| Series |
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29820. ^A478749
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| General note | 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. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | "All located copies have the derogatory statement about priests cut out of p. 137."--Shipton & Mooney. |
| General note | "Errata."--p. [204]. |
| References |
Evans 29820 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic 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. 29820). |
