ABSTRACT
First published anonymously as a pamphlet in mid-April 1818; the name of the printer, Airey and Bellingham, Kendal, appears on the title page and at the end of the work. Printed octavo from a single sheet, it is coverless and runs to sixteen pages (the verso of the title-page is blank); there is no known manuscript and no full republication took place in De Quincey's lifetime. The copy used in this edition is that held at Carlisle Public Library, Cumbria (reference N8 (28)). A handbill, 120 by 210 mm, printed in two columns and headed 'Jacobinism!' in large, heavy type, was taken from the pamphlet (I have come across one copy only, in Kendal Public Library, Cumbria, reference 42/324.2 (00254)). This too was printed by Airey and Bellingham and consists of the final paragraph of the published pamphlet less the first sentence. It follows the form of the pamphlet except that the final 'Mr. Brougham' of the latter is altered to 'Mr. B.'; and it is thus published in accordance with De Quincey's wish that the pamphlet be 'also printed as a Handbill' (Jordan, p. 306).
