Downfall of freemasonry, being an authentic history of the rise, progress, and triumph of antimasonry; also, of the origin and increase of abolition: together with a faithful account of the travels, dangers, attacks, discoveries, and escapes of the governor from the cut-throats of the lodge, during the first years of his administration, in his various peregrinations through the state, contained in his own letters, to which are prefixed faithful biographical sketches of his life and my own, with notes and explanations, all carefully revised by Punkin's shorthander, worked by steam from Blubbership. / By Jonathan Punkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Punkin, Jonathan.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritner, Joseph, 1780-1869--Humor.

Ritner, Joseph.

Ritner, Joseph, 1780-1869.

Pennsylvania. Governor (1835-1839 : Ritner)--Humor.

Pennsylvania.

Freemasons--Fiction.

Freemasons.

Pennsylvania. Governor (1835-1839 : Ritner).

Genre:

Fiction.

Humor.

Physical Description:

iv pages, 5 unnumbered pages-48 pages, 1 leaf, v pages, 13 unnumbered pages-159 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Governor's letters

Place of Publication:

[Harrisburg?] : Published for the editor, near the Council chambers, Unction room, 1838.

Contents:

[Book I.] Biography of the governor; Auto-biography of Jonathan Punkin, Esq., ex-pedlar, state printer, organ of the administration, cabinet counsellor, and inventer of patents

[Book II.] Governor's correspondence.

Notes:

Burlesque of Pennsylvania governor Joseph Ritner.

Table of contents follows the first 48 p.

Cited in:

Sabin, 66668

OCLC:

747479