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1796 Thomas Paine: The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance.

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1796 Thomas Paine: The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance.
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Federal Period
Thomas Paine’s Booklet Titled: “The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance”
1796 Federal Period, Booklet entitled: “The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance,” by Thomas Paine, Printed by Hartly, Adlard and Son, Paris, France, Choice Very Fine.
This scarce 8.25” x 5” Booklet has 33 pages in which Paine predicted the suspension of the Bank of England, that occurred the next year. Printed by John Page, No. 67 Mulberry Street, for Benj. Franklin Bache, No. 112 High Street being a nice addition to any post Revolutionary War or Paine collection. Very clean with original untrimmed margin edges and well printed.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".

Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769-1798), American journalist, printed and publisher. Grandson of Benjamin Franklin, often referred to as “Lightning Rod Junior” after his grandfather’s famous experiment.