The Devil's walk ;
a poem.
By Professor Porson. Edited with a biographical memoir and notes, by H. W. Montagu, author of Montmorency Poems, &c. &c. &c. Illustrated with beautiful engravings on wood by Bonner and Slader, after the designs of Robert Cruikshank.

Description

Main Author

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Related Names

Montagu, H. W.
Slader, Samuel M.
Bonner, G. W. (George Wilmot), 1796-1836
Porson, Richard, 1759-1808.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.
Bentley, Samuel, 1785-1868.
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Archibald Constable & Co.
Marsh and Miller.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Marsh and Miller, Oxford Street. And Constable and Co., Edinburgh [1830].

Subjects

Porson, Richard, > Porson, Richard, / 1759-1808.

Note

Illustrations: 6 wood engravings, including: -- "From his brimstone bed at break of day," p. [ii], depicting the Devil, seated and reading the newspaper, getting a haircut from a demon. -- "And backwards and forwards he switch'd his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane," p. [13], depicting the Devil walking toward London, dressed like a gentleman. -- "He saw a Lawyer killing a viper, On a dunghill beside his own stable," p. [17], depicting the Devil watching a lawyer attack a snake with a stick, in front of a stable. -- "He saw a Pothecary, on a white horse, Ride by on his avocations," p. [20], depicting the Devil watching a skeleton dressed as an apothecary and riding a horse. -- "As he passed by Cold Bath Fields, he saw A solitary cell.--", p. [25], depicting the Devil inside a jail cell with two suffering prisoners. -- "He saw a certain Minister -- (a Minister to his mind) Go into a certain house -- with a majority behind," p. [30], depicting the Devil watching the Prime Minister enter the House of Lords; the King and nobles watch from an adjoining room.
First published in the Morning Post, 6 Sep 1799, under the title "The Devil's Thoughts."
The preface is a biographical memoir of Porson, who is erroneously identified as the author. In truth, Southey wrote the first three stanzas, and the stanza on the "Cold-Bath-Prison"; the rest was written by Coleridge (cf. Coleridge letter to H. W. Montagu, April 1830 [#1686 in Griggs]).
Publisher's advertisements: p. [34-36].
"Price one shilling" -- printed paper covers.
Imprint date from printed paper covers.
Printer's imprint: "London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset-street, Fleet-street."

Physical Description

20, 23-33, [3] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

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