Democracy Unveiled, or, Tyranny stripped of the garb of patriotism
New-York: I. Riley & Co., 1806. Very Good-. Item #26373
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.
Price: $150.00