Remarks on the Jacobiniad
By: revised and corrected by the author; ; and embellished with carricatures [sic]. ; Part first. [Eight lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 28726
Publisher: by E.W. Weld and W. Greenough: sold at their printing-office, no. 42, Cornhill, and by the booksellers.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Printed at Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Anecdotes; Jacobins; Caricatures and cartoons; Political clubs; Humor; Mock-heroic literature; History; Constitutional Society (Boston, Mass.)
Other titles: Jacobiniad.
Notes: 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."--p. [3]-5.

"The following lines were the volunteer production of another hand ... Exhortation: inscribed to whom it may concern!"--p. [51]-54, in verse.

Evans 28726

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 180

Stoddard, R.E. Unrecorded Wegelin, 99