DEMOCRACY UNVEILED, OR, TYRANNY STRIPPED OF THE GARB OF PATRIOTISM
1806 · New York
by [ Fessenden, Thomas Green]: Caustic, Christopher [ pseudonym
New York: Printed for I. Riley & Co., 1806. Two volumes. xxiv,179; 238,[1]pp. Contemporary calf, leather label. Significant wear and scuffing to binding extremities, leather quite dry. Old library label. Scattered foxing. Good plus copy. Styled the "third edition, with large additions," on the titlepage, after the first two editions of the year before. 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 24212. GAINES 355. BRINLEY SALE 6857. DAB VI, pp.347-48 (Inventory #: WRCAM23209)