The Devil's walk ; a poem. - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Montagu, H. W.; Slader, Samuel M.; Bonner, G. W.; Porson, Richard; Cruikshank, Robert; Bentley, Samuel; Southey, Robert; Archibald Constable & Co.; Marsh and Miller. (Marsh and Miller, Oxford Street. And Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1830)
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.