The scourge [electronic resource].
Boston : [M. Butler],
1811.
This comic periodical was edited by Merrill Butler, alias "Tim Touchstone," who was later sent to jail for libel. It was an off-spring of several British comic magazines of similar purpose and contained satire on politics and government, as well as biographical sketches, poetry, and literary notices. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
Title from PDF caption (Proquest, viewed Feb. 27, 2006).
Editor: 1811, T. Touchstone (pseud.).
Some issues published in more than one edition.
This comic periodical was edited by Merrill Butler, alias "Tim Touchstone," who was later sent to jail for libel. It was an off-spring of several British comic magazines of similar purpose and contained satire on politics and government, as well as biographical sketches, poetry, and literary notices. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
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