DEMOCRACY UNVEILED; OR, TYRANNY STRIPPED OF THE GARB OF PATRIOTISM
1805 · Boston
by [ Fessenden, Thomas Green]: Caustic, Christopher [ pseudonym
Boston: Printed by David Carlisl, 1805. viii,220pp. Original boards, printed paper spine. Covers detached, spine chipped and cracked. Internally clean. Very good. Untrimmed. An eccentric collection of satirical verse against Jefferson. "...the most celebrated and virulent assault on Jefferson and the minor Democratic leaders, coarse and libelous to a degree not tolerable today" - DAB. SABIN 24212. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 8437. DAB VI, pp.347-48. WEGELIN 957 (Inventory #: WRCAM25117)