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Description: Engr. titlepage, illus. throughout. Uncut in orig. blue boards, later neatly respined with drab paper retaining orig. paper label. Small bookseller's roundel on front board: A.M. Graham, Dublin. A nice clean copy. A collection of some of Hone's best political pamphlets, containing fourteen separate items and a new Introduction partly in the form of a humorous dialogue. The Political House that Jack Built. 53rd edn, 1821; The Man in the Moon. 25th edn, 1820; The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder. 44th edn, 1820; Dropt Clauses out of the Bill against the Queen. (1821); "Non Mi Ricordo!" 31st edn, 1820; The Form of Prayer, 5th edn, 1820; The Political Showman - at Home! 16th edn, 1821; The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong! 1821; The Bank Restriction Barometer, with the Bank Restriction Note (listed in the Contents as two separate items), (1819); Buonapartephobia. The origin of Dr. Slop's Name. 9th edn, 1820; A Slap at Slop. 1822; Aspersions Answered. 5th edn, 1824; Another Article for The Quarterly Review. 2nd edn, 1824.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
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Description: Engr. titlepage, illus. throughout; prelims a little foxed. Contemp. half calf, spine with raised gilt bands & black morocco label; spine a little rubbed. Armorial roundel George Brightwell & early signature of John Brightwell. A nice tight copy. A collection of some of Hone's best political pamphlets, containing fourteen separate items and a new Introduction partly in the form of a humorous dialogue. The Political House that Jack Built. 53rd edn, 1821; The Man in the Moon. 27th edn, 1820; The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder. 43rd edn, 1820; Dropt Clauses out of the Bill against the Queen. (1821); "Non Mi Ricordo!" 30th edn, 1820; The Form of Prayer, 9th edn, 1820; The Political Showman - at Home! 16th edn, 1821; The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong! 1821; The Bank Restriction Barometer, with the Bank Restriction Note (listed in the Contents as two separate items), (1819); Buonapartephobia. The origin of Dr. Slop's Name. 9th edn, 1820; A Slap at Slop. 1822, with folding plates; Aspersions Answered. 6th edn, 1824; Another Article for The Quarterly Review. 2nd edn, 1824.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
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Description: In 14 parts, The political house that Jack built (1821, 53rd ed.), The man in the moon (1820, 25th ed.), The Queen's matrimonial ladder (1820, 44th ed.), In Parliament. Dropt clauses out of the bill, against the Queen (s.d.), "Non mi ricordo!" (1820, 31st ed.), The form of prayer (1820, 5th ed. 1820), political showman--at home! (1821, 16th ed.), The right divine of kings to govern wrong! (1821), Bank restriction note, The bank restriction barometer, Buonapartephobia. (1820, 9th ed.), A slap at slop (1822), Aspersions answered (1824, 6th ed.), and Another article for the Quarterly review (1824, 2nd ed.). With 120 engravings by George Cruikshank. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Very occasional spotting. A collected edition of William Hone's (1780-1842) popular pamphlets, including his Bank Restriction Note (1820), a copper-plate engraving of an imitation of a £1 note, created in collaboration with Cruikshank, displaying a line of figures on the gallows. The note was an attack on the legislation which permitted the death penalty for the forging or passing of imitation paper money, a law which was popularly deemed too savage given the temptations involved and the opportunity for the persecution of innocent people. The note attracted much attention, as too did another joint parodic production, A Slap at Slop and the Bridge Street Gang (1820), a burlesque of John Stoddart's newspaper, the New Times. The years from 1819 to 1822 were perhaps Hone's most prolific period as a political satirist, during which he published such popular successes as The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, Hone's Political Showman - at Home!, and Buonapartephobia. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom