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REPUBLIC EDITION THOMAS PAINE. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine. 36 plates, some in color, plus 8 pages of facsimile documents. 10 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt morocco with doublures and silk-covered endpapers, moderate wear and rubbing to backstrips; top edges gilt, title pages in red and black, uncut and partly unopened; "Special Grande De Luxe Republic Edition of the Centenary Issue," #2 of 75, signed on the first limitation page by editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler. New York: Vincent Parke, [1908]
The first volume includes biographical essays on Paine by Thomas Clio Rickman, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard, and others. Common Sense and Paine's shorter American essays are in Volume II, with the 15 numbers of The Crisis in Volume III. Also included, of course, are Rights of Man, Age of Reason, and much more. None of this edition traced at auction since 1974.
