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Fife & drummer wanted... Unauthorized edition of Common Sense...
Fife & drummer wanted... Unauthorized edition of Common Sense...
Item # 704397
January 20, 1776
THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST, Philadelphia, Jan. 20, 1776 Great to offer an American newspaper dated in 1776 and from Philadelphia.
Most of the front page is taken up with a detailed description on how to make saltpetre (potassium nitrate), one of the principal ingredients in the making of gunpowder.
Page 2 has reports from London with one references to forts in America, and page 3 contains several reports from Congress with a Jan. 17, 1776 dateline with a few war-related items.
The back page contains a brief advertisement reading: "A New edition of COMMON SENSE is just published, and now selling by Robert Bell in Third street, Philadelphia." Interesting that this is an "unauthorized" edition not approved by Thomas Paine. Paine & Bell failed to come to an agreement for a 2nd edition but Bell printed one anyway, but not including the additions which Paine added & which was printed by another printer.
Also on the back page is a short ad reading: "Wanted immediately, a DRUMMER and FIFER. Inquire of the printer." The back page also has a "Two Dollars Reward" ad for a marine who deserted from Capt. John Welsh's company.
Four pages, 8 1/4 by 10 inches, never-trimmed margins, two small binding holes at the blank spine, great condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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