Books

8.5 x 5.25", half leather; marbled boards, 162pp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities bumped and worn, spine rubbed, hinges a bit loose (but not cracked), former owner's bookplate inside front cover (Yeats Brown), front fep almost fully detached, pp toned with some scattered finger soiling, but still a nicely preserved copy of the FIRST EDITION, Second Issue (not published by Johnson, with 4pp Preface added). BOUND WITH: RIGHTS OF MAN Part Second, London 1792 ("Third Edition").

Originally published in 1791, 'Rights of Man' is a book by Thomas Paine that defends the French Revolution against its critics and advocates for individual rights.