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Published by T. Hurst & J. Ginger 2nd edition with great additions, London, 1803
Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. Stipple engraved Frontispiece by H. Singleton. 12mo [but in 8's] half calf (head of spine repaired/lower part of one hinge cracked/2mm lacking from foot of spine) xxxi + 186pp last leaf in Facsimile. Some foxing or browning - mainly marginal. *This edition "contains more than double the quantity of matter" than the 1st edition which only had 92pp and which was also published in 1803. This work pokes fun at the then current medical practice. The frontis shows several doctors coming to blows as to how to treat the patient. Far scarcer than the American edition this has only 3 London imprints in COPAC, which has 10 U.S. editions with imprints from New York, Philadelphia, Virginia, Boston etc. 1 volume. Hardcover.
Published by Russell, Shattuck & Co. Boston 1836, 1836
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
264pp. 8vo Brown cloth 3rd American edition. Fessenden, born in Walpole, NH and lived in England, Brattleboro, VT, and Boston. This poem was "surprisingly popular, and well received in the reviews, and was several times reprinted." Dictionary of American Biography Ex-library, spine and front joint torn and reglued, light cover stains: Good-.
Published by The Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, 1806
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second American Edition. Second American edition. Includes frontispiece, lacks other plate called for. Former copy of Middlebury College Library with their bookplate and stamps, owner bookplate and ink name on front endpapers (Ephraim H. Newton, a reverend who wrote a history of Marlborough, VT not published until 1930). 2 inch chip from margin of pp. 149/150, with loss of a few words of text. 1806 Full-Leather. xxxii, 271 pp. 8vo. A pseudonymous collection of satirical poems. "Thomas Green Fessenden, 1771-1837, gained much notoriety as a humorous and satirical writer, under the name of Christopher Caustic. His two chief poems were Terrible Tractoration, and The Country Lovers." - A Manual of American Literature Hoolihan 1157: "Fessenden's satire was originally published at London in 1803 under the title: A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery. In the year 1801 the author. was in London. In that metropolis, he became acquainted with Mr. Benjamin Douglas Perkins [son of Elisha P., inventor of the tractors], proprietor of a patent right for making and using certain implements, called Metallic Tractors. These were said to cure diseases in all or nearly all cases of topical inflammation, by conducting from the diseased part the surplus of electric fluid which in such cases, causes or accompanies the morbid affection. At the request of that gentleman, the author undertook to make the Tractors the theme of a satirical effusion in Hudibrastic verse. This was originally intended for the corner of a newspaper, but subsequently in the first edition enlarged to a pamphlet of about fifty pages royal octavo. It was published in the summer of 1803, well received, and a second edition called for in less than two months. The author never would have written a syllable intended to give Metallic Tractors favorable notoriety, had he not believed in their efficacy. As conductors of what is called animal electricity, and in principles allied to Galvanic stimulants, even their modus operandi, he thought, might be in a great measure explained.
Published by I. Riley & Co, New-York, 1806
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Condition: 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.
Published by Samuel Stansbury, New York, 1804
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1804. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 192 pp., with half title; four plates, complete. Contemporary calf with gilt stamping and red title label to spine. Light scuffing and edgewear and binding sound. Recent ownership stamp to front pastedown and contemporary ownership inscription of Rick Waterman to front fly leaf. First American edition of Fessenden's poetic satire of the medical profession, related to the patent of metal tractors by Fessenden's acquaintance Benjamin Douglas Perkins. Nathaniel Hawthorne called Terrible Tractation "a work of strange and grotesque ideas aptly expressed: its rhymes are of a most singular character, yet fitting each to each as accurately as echoes.".
Published by Printed for I. Riley & Co., New York, 1806
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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.
Published by Printed by David Carlisle, Boston, 1805
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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.