Rights of Man
Thomas Paine, Lynd Ward, Howard Fast
Leather Bound
(Easton Press, Jan. 1, 1989)
This is a book originally sold by The Easton Press, 47 Richards Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06857 as part of its "100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition" collection which then evolved into "The Greatest Books Ever Written" collection. Many of the books carry a 1979 copyright but may have been printed in different years with different cover art. This is a leather-bound volume featuring 22kt gold accents, illustrations, moiré fabric endsheets, gilded page ends, and a satin-ribbon page marker. Rights of Man (1791) is a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, sets out that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). It was published in two parts in 1791 and 1792.