Lot 231
Paine, Thomas
Rights of Man:
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: for J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1792. [Bound with:] Letter addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. London: for H. D. Symonds, in Paternoster Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, No. 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone Street, 1792. 2 works in 1 volume, large 12mo, iv 78 [2], 40 pp., contemporary half calf, marbled sides, Rights of Man with advertisement leaf to rear, small hole in title-page, stab-holes visible in gutter, closely trimmed along top edge in places [ESTC N13084 for Rights of Man, giving the format as 8vo];
[Molesworth, Richard Molesworth, Viscount]. A Short Course of Standing Rules, for the Government and Conduct of an Army, designed for, or in the Field. With some Useful Observations drawn from Experience. By a Lieutenant-General of His Majesty's Forces. London: R. Dodsley, 1744. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in gilt, half-title, engraved folding plate with dispositions hand-coloured, ownership inscription of Richard Cope Hopton to front pastedown, wear to spine-ends, front joint superficially cracked, short closed tear in plate, D2 lower fore corner torn not affecting text [ESTC T101513]
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Footnote
The Rights of Man was first published in 1791, the Letter in 1792; Molesworth's work is notably uncommon, with five copies only in UK libraries according to ESTC.