Democracy Unveiled, or, Tyranny stripped of the garb of patriotism
by Christopher Caustic [pseud. Thomas Green Fessenden]
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- Very Good-
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New-York: I. Riley & Co, 1806. Very Good-. New-York: I. Riley & Co., 1806. Third Edition, "with large additions." Two volumes bound in one; 12mo; 20th-century brown library cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xxiv,179,[1]; 238,[2]pp. (collated and complete). Brief repair to two leaves, final leaf of Vol. I significantly repaired, uneven spotting throughout, ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Good to Very Good reading copy, contents mostly clean and sound.
Federalist satire deeply critical of the Democratic Party and Thomas Jefferson. Though "Christopher Caustic," a.k.a. Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837) failed to get his Federalist newspaper the "Weekly Inspector" off the ground in Democratic New York, later in his career in the early 1830s he took on as a boarder young Nathaniel Hawthorne, who published an affectionate portrait of the old firebrand in 1838.
Federalist satire deeply critical of the Democratic Party and Thomas Jefferson. Though "Christopher Caustic," a.k.a. Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837) failed to get his Federalist newspaper the "Weekly Inspector" off the ground in Democratic New York, later in his career in the early 1830s he took on as a boarder young Nathaniel Hawthorne, who published an affectionate portrait of the old firebrand in 1838.
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- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
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- 26373
- Title
- Democracy Unveiled, or, Tyranny stripped of the garb of patriotism
- Author
- Christopher Caustic [pseud. Thomas Green Fessenden]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
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- 1
- Publisher
- I. Riley & Co
- Place of Publication
- New-York
- Date Published
- 1806
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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