The modern philosopher; or Terrible tractoration! [microform] : In four cantos, most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, London. / By Christopher Caustick, M.D. A.S.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Aberdeen, and honorary member of no less than nineteen very learned societies
- Author
- Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837
- Uniform Title
- Terrible tractoration!
- Additional Titles
- Poetical petition against tractorising trumpery and Terrible tractoration! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery
- Published
- Philadelphia [Pa.] : From the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, rinted for I. Riley and Co. New York, 1806.
- Edition
- Second American edition, revised, corrected, and much enlarged by the author.
- Physical Description
- xxxii, 271 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Additional Creators
- Barralet, John James, approximately 1747-1815, Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822, Bronson, Enos, 1774-1823, Rush, James, 1786-1869, I. Riley and Co., and Lorenzo Press (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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- Note
- Copyright 1806 by Thomas Green Fessenden.
Originally published in London in 1803 under title: A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery. The first American edition was published in New York in 1804 under title: Terrible tractoration! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery.
Plates drawn by J.J. Barralet and engraved by Samuel Seymour.
Signatures: [1]₄ 2-4₄ B-2M⁴ (2M4 verso blank).
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
"Preface to the second American edition."--p. [v]-xiv, dated: Philadelphia, June 18, 1806.
"Introduction to the London edition."--p. [xv]-xxxii.
"Additional notes."--p. [253]-271.
Library Company copy inscribed: James Rush; p. 161-192 (sig. Y-2B₄) misbound following p. 48.
NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
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