Description
Item Description:Satirizing liberal clubs in Boston under the guise of a literary review of a pretended poem, "The Jacobiniad."
First published in the Federal orrery, over the initials X.Z. Attributed to John Sylvester John Gardiner in the Dictionary of American biography.
The caricatures have been identified as Thomas Edwards, Benjamin Austin, Samuel Howes, Justice Vinal, and Adam Colson.
Part 2 published in Boston in 1798.
Signatures: A-D⁶ E⁴ (E4 blank)
"A poetical dedication of the first part of the Remarks on the Jacobiniad, addressed to the Constitutional Society, (alias Jacobin Club) at Boston. By a friend of the poet."--pages [3]-5.
"The following lines were the volunteer production of another hand ... Exhortation: inscribed to whom it may concern!"--pages [51]-54, in verse.
Physical Description:54 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (12mo)
Place of Publication:United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Reproduction Note:Microfiche.
Citation/References Note:Evans
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry,
Stoddard, R.E. Unrecorded Wegelin,
Action Note:committed to retain