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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.

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

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