Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Examination of the passages in the New Testament, quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, an essay on dream, shewing by what operation of the mind a dream is produced in sleep, and applying the same to the account of dreams in the New Testament; with an appendix containing my private thoughts of a future state, and remarks on the contradictory doctrine in the books of Matthew and Mark. By Thomas Paine.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1225
3882.8.333
Lapidus 5.1219
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcgh93h835m
Language
English
Date Created
1807
Extent
[4]., 62, [4] p. 21 cm.
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy: inscribed on title page 'Gardner B. Perry.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
Princeton copy 3 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Advertised in the May 21, 1807, issue of the Public advertiser, New York, as "just published and for sale, by N. Judah, 84, Maiden Lane, & H. Hart, 75, Chatham Street."
Republished by Eaton in 1811 and by Carlile in 1819 as Part III of the Age of reason. Paine's will shows it to be an entirely distinct work. cf. Paine, Thomas. Writings, ed. by M.D. Conway, 1894-96, v. 4, p. 508.
Lapidus copy annotated with supplemental text on p. 2 (final count). Perhaps in the hand of Thomas Paine.
This edition is different from that collating [2], 4-56, [4] p. at the American Antiquarian Society.
Princeton copy 1 Ex copy bound as second item in a volume with general title page: Theophilanthitopist, Containing A Free Enquiry into the Nature ...
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy: Stab stitched.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
73

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/255ffed5-699b-4bb8-bfbf-3000457257a9/manifest