PBA Galleries

4 works, including:

• Paine, Thomas. The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. 33 pp. With half title. (8vo), disbound, in blue paper wrappers. First edition, first issue, without the Speech on Spain which was added to later issues. Philadelphia: Printed by John Page...for Benj. Franklin Bache, 1796.
• Paine, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. 78, + [1] ad pp. (8vo), period boards, re-backed. Later bookplate. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, in Paternoster-Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792.
• Letters, by the Author of Common Sense. 24 pp. (8vo), disbound, in pale blue wrappers. Albany: Charles R. & George Webster, 1792.
• Cheetham, James. The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights of Man, &c. 347 pp. (8vo) contemporary half calf and boards. New York: Southwick and Pelsue, 1809.

All housed in a custom half calf and cloth drop-back box with gilt-lettered spine.