Political Writings (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

627, [3] pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles and rules, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway, illustrations by Robert Borja. A collection of political writings by Thomas Paine, the political philosopher activist best known for Common Sense and Rights of Man. Includes: Common Sense (Introduction, Common Sense, Epistle to Quakers); The American Crisis; Rights of Man (Preface to the English Edition, Paine's Preface to the French Edition; Rights of Man).