Editions Note: APS First Edition. Lacks last leaf. Uncut cupy. Lower left corner mutilated. This was the first issue of what became a two-part series. Per Sabin: "The next tract speedily followed this, and the two together constitute the ordinary editions of this work." Isaac Kramnick notes that "Paine had intended that his share of the profits from the January printing be used for purchasing mittens for the colonial forces fighting in Quebec. He was furious to learn that Bell had no profits to divide and assumed he had been cheated. Because of this, Paine took his second enlarged edition, with its appendix and reply to the Quaker meeting of 20 January, to a new publisher," Common Sense, ed. Kramnick, (London: Penguin Books, 1986), 59. The enlarged edition is included below.