Terrible Tractoration A Poetical Petition Against Galvanizing Trumpery And The Perkinistic

by Thomas Green Fessenden

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New York: printed by Samuel Stansbury, 114 Water-Street, 1804. 12mo, pp. xxxv, 1 , 192; 4 engraved plates; removed from binding; corner of half-title and corner of Canto One torn away, likely to remove an owner's signature; some spotting; text block sound. The poem that made Fessenden's literary reputation. In February 1803 he rallied to the defense of another Yankee, Elisha Perkins, whose 'metallic tractors,' after enjoying an enormous sale, were being

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