Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 1797. First complete edition. In two volumes. 8vo. vi, (ii), 391, (1, ad); (viii), 130, (3), 142-368 pp., including half-title in each volume, as well as sectional title-pages. Full contemporary mottled tree calf, red morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, light wear along extremities and joints, repair in top edge of rear board on second volume; blue speckled edges; book-plate of Mann S. Valentine on front paste-down of each volume, old ownership inscription in pencil below same in each; contemporary ownership signature on each title-page ("W. Murphy's"); front free endpaper in first volume largely detached, loss along fore-edge of front blank in same; scattered spotting and creasing to text leaves. ESTC W20948; Sabin 58245; Evans 32633; Howes P-33; Gimbel CS-83; Weems/Ford 243

First complete edition of the collected writings of Thomas Paine, including Common Sense; 16 installments of The Crisis (previous to this edition, only 11 of these had been published); Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal; Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money; Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse...; parts one and two of The Rights of Man, and more.

Three issues of this collected edition were published: one with The Age of Reason at the end of the second volume, with separate pagination; another with Watson's Apology for the Bible bound as a replacement for The Age of Reason; and as seen in this copy, without either.