[Rarebooks] fa: WILLIAM HONE & GEORGE CRUIKSHANK - OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE NOBLE LORDS BITE! 1817

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, September 20. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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[William Hone:] Official Account of the Noble Lords Bite! And His Dangerous Condition, with Who Went to See Him, and What Was Said, Sung, and Done, on the Melancholy Occasion. Published for the Instruction and Edification of All Ranks and Conditions of Men. By the Author of Buonaparte-Phobia; or, Cursing Made Easy. London: Printed by and for W. Hone, 1817. First edition. Pamphlet, 8vo (20.75), in later but not recent plain wraps and tissue endpapers; 15 + [1] pp.; woodcut title-page vignette by George Cruikshank. Cohn 614.

A biting satire on the Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh by William Hone (1780-1842), prolific publisher and pamphleteer, relentless gadfly of the Tory establishment. An uncommon, relatively early joint effort by Hone and his frequent collaborator Cruikshank. Title-page and final leaf browned and somewhat cockled by the later wraps, lesser toning and cockling to the rest of the text, the middle page-gathering has come loose.