William Hone: An Annotated Bibliography
The following list of works written by, published by, or otherwise related to Hone does not pretend to be a complete bibliography. Because many of Hone's publications were unsigned, ephemeral pieces that have now been lost or miscatalogued, and because his title pages and advertisements are not always reliable, a "complete" bibliography for a writer/publisher like Hone would likely be impossible to compile. In any event, I have tried to select the most noteworthy of Hone's productions to include below. Since Hone was prolific both with the pen and with the press, the selection has necessitated some considerable omissions. Readers are encouraged to consult Ann Bowden's reliable and more complete bibliography for publications appearing between 1815 and 1821 (see Bowden in the Secondary Source Bibliography). Alternatively, I would be happy to address specific queries directed to me personally.
In compiling the bibliography, I have relied primarily on my own research both in the works themselves and in Hone's advertisements for his publications; I have also consulted the Bowden bibliography (mentioned above), Dorothy George's Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, the National Union Catalogue, the Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, and other standard reference works. The entries consist chiefly of title-page transcriptions with additional material inserted in brackets. The commentaries are, of course, my own.
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Annotated Bibliography, Alphabetical by Title
Jump to: [A-C] - [D-L] - [M-R] - [S-Z]
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Accurate Report of the Trial of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Caroline,
before the House of Lords, on a Bill of Pains and Penalties, Charging
Her Majesty with a Criminal Intercourse, with a Foreigner Named Bartolomo
Bergami. Containing the Evidence in Full--the Speeches of Counsel on both
Sides--Examinations of Witnesses, by the Peers and Counsel,--Debates on
Various Interesting Questions Connected with the Trial--the Opinion of
the Judges thereon,--Miss Demont's letters,--Proceedings on the First,
Second and Third Reading of the Bill--Divorce Clause, &c.
Author: W. Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1821
Printed by: W. Hone
Hone, like many other radical writers and publishers, was deeply interested in the Queen Caroline affair of 1820; Caroline became a popular symbol of a victim of governmental abuse and ill treatment. -
Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, founded on
Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the
British Museum; including notices of Ecclisiastical Shows, the Festivals of Fools and
Asses--the English Boy-Bishop, the Descent into Hell--the Lord Mayor's Show, the
Guildhall Giants--Christmas Carols, &c. With Engravings on Copper and Wood. "Is it possible the spells of
Apocrypha should juggle men into such strange Mysteries?"--Shakespeare.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1823
Printed by: J. M'Creery
Excerpts from and summaries of medieval mystery plays that Hone had discovered in the British Library; many founded on stories from the Apocrypha, thus tending to justify Hone's 1820 publication of the Apocryphal New Testament.
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Another Article for the Quarterly Review By William Hone, Author of Aspersions Answered &c.
"How long will a man lie i'the earth ere he
rot?"--Shakespeare.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45 Ludgate Hill, 1824
Printed by: T. White, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street
32 pages; 3+ eds.; 6d.
With Aspersions Answered, this brief prose polemic makes up Hone's response to scathing criticism he had received in the Quarterly Review for publishing the Apocryphal New Testament.
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Another Ministerial Defeat! The Trial of the Dog, for Biting the Noble Lord; with
the Whole of the Evidence at Length. Taken in Short-Hand. By the Author of "The Official Account of the Noble Lord's
Bite."
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 67, Old Bailey, Three Doors from Ludgate-Hill, 1817
8 pages; 2d.
A mock trial of Castlereagh's dog, Castlereagh being the "Noble Lord" in the title; see also Official Account of the Noble Lord's Bite!. Hone had begun to make a name for himself as a publisher of popular Trial pamphlets; here, he turns that minor genre to the purposes of parodic satire. -
The Apocryphal New Testament, Being all the Gospels, Epistles and Other Pieces
not Extant, Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and
their Companions and not Included in the New Testament by its Compilers. Translated from the Original Tongues, and now First Collected into One
Volume.
Editor: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1820
6s.
A highly controversial publication. Some felt that Hone was challenging the canon of the established church by publishing the Apocrypha to a large audience; Hone himself claimed that the Apocrypha were chiefly of antiquarian interest, and later regretted the publication.
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Aspersions Answered, an Explanatory Statement, Addressed to the Public at Large,
and to Every Reader of the Quarterly Review in Particular. "Truth will ultimately prevail, even though he who uttered it
should be destroyed."--Dr. Vicesimus Knox.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1824.
Printed by: J. and C. Adlard, Bartholomew Close.
68 pages; at least six editions; 1s.
The Quarterly Review's vicious review of Hone's Apocryphal New Testament prompted this polemical defense; it was motivated as well by Hone's desire to clear the name of his brother Joseph, a solicitor who was having professional troubles on account of his association with William. See also Another Article for the Quarterly Review.
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Authentic Account of the Royal Marriage: Consisting of Original Memoirs of Prince
Leopold and Princess Charlotte; New and Faithful Particulars Respecting Their
Attachment and Nuptials; a Great Variety of Genuine Anecdotes of His Serene Highness
Hitherto Unknown; Complete Circumstantial Details of the Whole of the Marriage
Ceremonial, and Full Descriptions of the Splendid Dresses, Equipages, &c. With an Appendix, Containing the Acts of Naturalizing Prince Leopold,
Setting Forth his Titles, Settling his Precedence, and Providing and Establishment,
with other Interesting Documents, &c.
Editor: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 55, Fleet-street, 1816
48 pp.; 1s. 6d.
Many liberals and radicals revered Princess Charlotte; she embodied the hope that sometime in the not-too-distant future, England might have a benign and compassionate monarch. As this and the following works attest, the reform-minded Hone produced several works celebrating Charlotte and then bemoaning her death in 1817. -
Authentic Memoirs of the Life of the Late Lamented Princess Charlotte; with Clear Statements Showing the Succession to the Crown, and the
Probability of the Wife of Jerome Buonaparte becoming Queen, and Her Son, Jerome
Napoleon, being Prince of Wales, and Afterwards King of these Realms.
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, Three Doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
Printed by: William Hone
16 pp; 6 eds.; 6d.
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Authentic Particulars of the Death of the Princess Charlotte and Her Infant.
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, Three Doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
Printed by: William Hone
16 pp; 10 eds.; 6d.
Princess Charlotte died, shortly after giving birth to a still-born male child, on 6 November 1817. Hone's pamphlet collects many of the public statements and notices of sorrow on the melancholy occasion. The title page is framed in black and carries an engraving of the dead princess lying on a bed next to her infant. -
"Autobiographical" [Chapter 2 of Hackwood's biography.]
Author: William Hone
Editor: Frederick Hackwood
Publication Details: New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970 [orig. 1912]
Hackwood, chapter 2, pp. 22-63
Hackwood's is the only published version of Hone's fragmentary autobiography, the drafts of which can be found in the British Library (Add. MS 40121). Written as an exemplary "sinner saved" narrative, scholars would be wise to read the autobiography with a particularly skeptical eye. -
Bank Restriction Barometer; or, Scale of Effects of the Bank Note System, and
Payments in Gold
Author: Abraham Franklin
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1819
Printer: Macdonald and Son, 46 Cloth Fair, London
See "Bank Note--Not to be Imitated!" below.
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Bank Restriction Note; Specimen of a Bank Note--not to be Imitated. Submitted to the Consideration of the Bank Directors and the
inspection of the Public.
Author: William Hone
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819
1s. (sold with the Bank Restriction Barometer)
A parodic version of a bank note designed to illustrate the cruelty inherent in capital punishment. The parody was very effective in raising the awareness about this legal carnage, and George Cruikshank once called the piece "the most important design [he] ever made."
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The Bullet Te Deum; with the Canticle of the Stone. Imprimatur. F. Rabelais.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: Printed for one of the Candidates for the Office of Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and Sold by William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, three Doors from Ludgate Hill., 1817
Printed by: J. D. Dewick, Barbican.
Price Two-pence.
A liturgical parody using religious cadences to describe a stone thrown at the Prince Regent in late January, 1817. Though it sold simultaneously with Hone's other liturgical parodies, the Bullet was not singled out for a blasphemy prosecution.
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Buonaparte-phobia, or Cursing Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity A Dialogue between the Editor of "The Times,"--Doctor Slop,
My Uncle Toby, & My Father
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1815
Printed by: Lake Brooks, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square
Single sheet imitating a newspaper, with portrait of Napoleon, 1815
Parody--printed to look like a single news sheet and based on Sterne's Tristram Shandy--satirizes the intemperate language of John Stoddart, lead-writer for The Times in 1815. Stoddart became popularly known as "Dr. Slop" as a consequence of this broadsheet.
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Buonapartephobia. The Origin of Dr. Slop's Name "I have conferred on him a glorious Immortality!" * * *
"With his name the mothers still their babes!"--K. Henry VI. [portrait of
Napoleon.] "David's Portrait of Napoleon, as He Now Appears."
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1820 Printed by: William Hone
One shilling; at least 10 editions; octavo
Octavo reprint of 1815 edition (above), with new introduction; Napoleon portrait also from 1815. Hone probably republished the work because Stoddart had recently formed a conservative propaganda organization called the "Constitutional Association." See also: A Slap at Slop.
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A Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books, including many Curious and Scarce
Articles, together with a Large Collection of Old Tracts, Particularly Trials Also some Engraved British Portraits, and Prints for Illustration with
a few Paintings in Oil, which are now on sale, (for ready money only) at the Prices
Affixed to each Article
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Bookseller, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1820
Printed by: M. M'Creery
1 shilling
A fairly conventional bookseller's catalogue, though, as the title suggests, there is an extensive collection of Trials. Throughout his professional life Hone worked occasionally as an auctioneer for collections of antiquarian books. -
Catalogue of Books, Books of Prints, &c., collected for a history of parody,
by Mr. William Hone, containing an extensive and remarkable assemblage of
extraordinary parodies with articles of a very singular nature. Legal, political,
ecclesiastical, and dramatic facetiae Every article signed with Mr. Hone's autograph, and many containing
his MS. notes and observations: Including all the books and papers used on the trials,
each identified by his written statements; also his collection of ancient and modern
prints . . . together with unpublished copper-plates and seventy-eight wood blocks,
engraved from Mr. George Cruikshank's drawings. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr.
Southgate, at his rooms . . . on Thursday 22, and Friday 23, of February, 1827
Publication Details: London, 1827
37 pages.
As a consequence of his 1826 bankruptcy, Hone was forced to sell his substantial personal library, including many works he had collected for his proposed (but never completed) History of Parody. -
Circumstantial Evidence. Report of the Trial of Elizabeth Fenning, Charged with
Administering Poison with Intent to Murder; Whereupon She was Found Guilty before Sir
J. Silvester, the Recorder at the Old Bailey, April 11, 1815, and Suffered Death:
Including all the Evidence Omitted in the Sessions Paper Report; A New Edition, with Notes and Illustrations; and Some Account of the
Sufferer and her Parents.
Author: Mr. Job Sibly.
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819
60 pages; 2s. 6d.
Contains material from The Important Results ... of 1815; its reissue in 1819 probably suggests that Hone was concerned with miscarriages of justice more generally. -
A Circumstantial Report of the Extraordinary Evidence and Proceedings Before the
Coroner's Inquest, on the Body of Edward Vyse, Who, on Tuesday Evening, March 7, 1815,
Was Shot Dead from the Parlour Windows of the House of the Hon. Frederick Robinson, M.
P. in Old Burlington Street, specially Reported, and Revised from Minutes Taken by the
Inquest, with the Surgeon's Report, and Other Documents.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1815
Printed by: J. M'Creery
Sixpence.
Hone, by mere chance, had witnessed the Vyse shooting which happened during the Corn Law agitation. See also Hone's report of the Watson inquest. -
A Correct Report of the Speech Delivered by Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. in the
House of Commons, on . . . the 13th of March, 1809 on the conduct of H. R. H. the Duke
of York.
Author: Francis Burdett
William Hone
Publication Details: London: Bone and Hone, 1809
Hone and John Bone operated a bookselling shop in the Strand from 1808 to 1810 (see the biographical fragment); at the same time, both were deeply involved in various radical and reformist causes, including a few publications such as this speech by the radical politician, Sir Francis Burdett. -
The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature
Publication Details: London: Souter (1814), G. and S. Robinson (1815-17), 1814
Monthly, from 1756 until 1817.
As a contract with Thomas Bluck suggests, Hone was the "literary editor" of the Critical Review from January 1814 to June 1815. In Hone's hands, the Review took a distinctly political turn, and Hone was removed from his editorship, perhaps as a consequence. For more on this episode in Hone's life, see this biographical fragment.
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'Don John,' or Don Juan Unmasked; being a Key to the Mystery, Attending that
Remarkable Publication With a Descriptive Review of the Poem, and Extracts
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819
Printed by: J. D. Dewick, 46 Barbican
40 pp., plus 4 pp. of endpaper advertisements
A long review of the first two cantos of Byron's Don Juan; the work also attacks what Hone sees as both the pretension and the cowardice of John Murray, the "Don John" of the title, who published the poem without his own or Byron's name.
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Don Juan, Canto the Third! There never was such times. Radical Reflections. [Epigraph (printed on
separate sheet immediately after title page): "But in this kind, to come in
braving arms, / Be his own carver, and cut out his way, / To find out right with
wrong--it may not be."--Richard II.]
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819
A spurious continuation of Byron's poem. In Hone's version, Juan and Haidee are married and have twelve children, and Juan becomes a London newspaperman. See also, Don John, above.
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Dropt Clauses out of the Bill, against the Queen. For Mr. Attorney
General, to peruse and settle. With a refresher.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, Ludgate Hill, London, Solicitor for said Clauses., 1820
4 pages; 6d.
Printed and folded to look like a letter to the Attorney General; later issued as regular octavo edition. In parallel columns, the text matches the charges against the Queen with equally damning charges against George IV.
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The Early Life and Conversion of William Hone [Sr.]. Edited by His Son.
Author: William Hone [Sr.]
William Hone
Publication Details: London: T. Ward, 1841
A biographical account of Hone's father which the younger William Hone edited and published shortly before his own death. Portions of the text were previously published in The Year Book (pp. 821-39). -
The Emigrant's Guide to the United States of America; Containing the Best Advice
and Directions Respecting the Voyage,--Preservation of Health,--Choice of Settlement,
&:c. Also the Latest Information Concerning the Climate, Productions,
Population, Manners, Prices of Land, Labour, and Provisions, and Other Subjects,
Economical and Political, Affecting the Welfare of Persons About to Emigrate to the
United States and British America
Author: Robert Holditch
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1818
124 pages; 4s. 6d.
Hone produced only a handful of works in the year after his 1817 trials; publishing Holditch's book would seem to indicate that Hone was contemplating a new direction in his business. -
The Every-Day Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events Incident to
Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days in Past and Present Times; Forming a
Complete History of the Year, Months, & Seasons; and a Perpetual Key to the
Almanack...
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, then Hunt & Clarke, 1825-27
Weekly numbers (1825-26) gathered into two large volumes.
Diverse antiquarian essays and "amusements" published in weekly numbers from Jan. 1825 through Dec. 1826, then collected and issued in two volumes with index in 1827. There were numerous editions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially by the Tegg publishing house that purchased the rights to the work in the late 1820s. See also Hone's Table Book and Year Book.
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The Extraordinary Trial of Captain Geo. Harrower, at the Old Bailey, February 17, 1816, on an indictment for marrying the daughter of Paul Giblet, the butcher, his former wife being alive, a lunatic in India: Including his letters, the legal points at length raised by counsel on his behalf, his defence delivered by himself verbatim: -- and his sentence.
Author: Joseph Augustus Dowling
Author: Captain George Harrower
Editor: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1816
In a strange case at the Old Bailey in February of 1816, Captain George Harrower was found guilty of bigamy. Harrower had been stationed in India in the 1790s where he married. His wife became a lunatic and she did not accompany Harrower when he returned to England. Some years later, Harrower married a Miss Giblet. Harrower's new father-in-law, perhaps in an effort to extort money from Harrower, brought charges of bigamy. Harrower was found guilty, but the jury recommended leniency. Hone published an account of the trial based on notes taken by Joseph Augustus Dowling. -
Facetiae and Miscellanies With one hundred and twenty engravings, drawn by George
Cruikshank
Author: William Hone
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: Hunt & Clarke, 1827
Printed by: J. M'Creery et. al.
One vol. octavo
A one-volume, octavo edition of many of Hone's popular pamphlets. Hone needed money to supply his creditors following the 1826 bankruptcy, so to produce the volume, he simply supplied the publishers with unsold copies of his pamphlets which they bound together with a new introduction.
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First Part of a Catalogue of Books, for 1809, in Different Languages, and Various
Classes of Literature, Including a considerable Number of Works on Trade and Commerce,
Manufactures, Money, Coin, Revenue, The Affairs of the Poor, Assize and Price of
Bread, Public Improvement, and other subjects of Political Economy
Author: William Hone
Author: John Bone
Publication Details: London: Bone & Hone Booksellers and Publishers, No 331, Opposite Somerset-House, Strand. Where Libraries and Parcels of Books are bought, or taken in Exchange, on the most equitable Terms, 1809
Printed by: Macdonald and Son Printers, 46, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
Price One Shilling
Hone and John Bone (the former activist in the London Corresponding Society) took over J. S. Jordan's bookselling business in 1808. The enterprise lasted until late 1810, when both proprietors went bankrupt. See the biographical fragment entitled "The Bone-Hone Bookshop and After." -
The First Trial of William Hone, on an Ex-Officio Information. At Guildhall,
London, December 17, 1817 Before Mr. Justice Abbott and a Special Jury, for Publishing the
Late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministerial Member
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, 1817
Printed by: William Hone
20 eds. 48 pages. 1s.
Transcript of the trial; see also the Three Trials, where this publication is bound together with the other trials. -
The Form of Prayer, with Thanksgiving to Almighty God, to be used daily by all
Devout People throughout the Realm, for the Happy Deliverance of Her Majesty Queen
Caroline from the late most Traitorous Conspiracy
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1820
Price Six-pence; "sold by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom"
It was customary upon any great occasion in the monarchy for a "form of prayer" to be issued for services in the English Church. Hone parodies the practice here to celebrate the Queen's victory over the Prince Regent (now George IV).
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A Full Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting, Convened by the Hampden Club,
which Took Place at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
on Saturday, the 15th June, 1816, upon the Subject of Parliamentary Reform
Author: [William Hone]
Publication Details: London: Published by Wm. Hone, Fleet-Street, 1816
52 pages.
The Hampden Clubs were radical organizations; many were active in the dissemination of radical and reformist literature. Hone's publication is a clear indication (if any were needed) of his politics. -
Full Report of the Third Spa-Fields Meeting; With the Previous Arrests
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55 Fleet Street, 67 Old Bailey, 1817
The Spa-Fields uprising of December 2, 1816, was a watershed event in the history of Regency-period radicalism. It brought Hone into close contact with the Spenceans, and it also led to a government crackdown on radical activity in 1817. Hone published several accounts of the "meeting." See also Hone's Riots in London. -
Great Gobble Gobble Gobble, and Twit Twittle Twit, or Law Versus Common Sense,
Being a Twitting Report of Successive Attacks on a Tom Tit, His Stout Defences &
Final Victory A New Song, with Original Music by Lay Logic Esqre. Student in the Law
of Libel
Author: William Hone
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: William Hone. No. 67 Old Bailey, 1818 Song sheet, 4 pages; 2s.
Hone's poem accompanies George Cruikshank's engraving; they depict Hone as "Tom Tit" perched on a fence teasing a gigantic turkey (i.e. Ellenborough, the justice who presided over Hone's libel trials).
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Hone's Interesting History of the Memorable Blood Conspiracy, Carried on by S.
MacDaniel, J. Berry, J. Egan, and J. Salmon, Thief-Takers, and Their Trials and
Sentences, in 1756, for Procuring Two Boys to Commit a Robbery, in order to Get the
Reward for their Conviction, and Obtaining and Innocent Lad to be Executed, Having
Sworn Away the Lives of Seventy Poor Creatures, and Received [pound]1,720 from the
Treasury for their Blood-Money Also the Reasons for which they were Suffered to Escape the Gallows,
and Illustrative Legal and Critical Notes and Observations applicable to Present
Circumstances. With a Portrait of Mac Daniel, after he was Pilloried
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1816
One Shilling
Probably written with the Home Office spy system in mind--spies, in Hone's view, were in the profitable "blood money" business of trapping innocent citizens in seditious or blasphemous activities. The pamphlet has a remarkable preface in which Hone makes the case for popular oversight of judicial and governmental institutions. See the biographical fragment entitled "The Fenning Case and the Rise of the Watchdog Press."
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Hone's Reformists' Register and Weekly Commentary
Author: William Hone
Author: Francis Place
Publication Details: London: William Hone, at the Reformists' Register Office, 67, Old Bailey, Three Doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
2 vols.; weekly from 1 February 1817 until 25 October 1817
Hone's weekly contribution in the "twopenny trash" genre helped to fill a gap in radical news publications after Cobbett fled to America in March 1817. The first few numbers were written by Francis Place. The Reformists' Register provides a blow-by-blow account of Hone's treatment in the months leading up to his libel trials. -
Hone's Riots in London: with most Important and Full Particulars, now first
published: elucidating the events of Monday, December 2, 1816; including original memoirs and anecdotes of Preston, Dyall, the Watson
Family, Thomas Spence--Spence plan complete--and a variety of circumstances,
incidents, singular facts, and explanations, shewing the real occasion and true
character of the tumults
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 1816
A journalistic account of the Spa-Fields uprising. See also Hone's Full Report of the Third Spa-Fields Meeting. -
Hone's View of the Regent's Bomb, Now Uncovered, for the Gratification of the
Public in St. James's Park, Majestically Mounted, on a Monstrous Nondescript, Supposed
to Represent Legitimate Sovereignty
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1816
Single sheet broadside
Broadside with engraving of a mortar (the "Regent's Bomb") on a stumpy pedestal, followed by prose description and baudy "commemorative" poem. The gag is based on the word "bomb" which sounds like "bum" in Hone's dialect--hence, the reference is to the Regent's ample posterior.
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The Housekeeper's Domestic Library; or, New Universal Family Instructor in
Practical Economy
Author: Charles Millington
Editor: William Hone
Publication Details: London: M. Jones, 1805
1804 and 1805 were slim years in the book trade for the young William Hone. Apparently in order to earn a few shillings (and much to the amusement of his friend John Venning), Hone edited this household volume which was usually referred to as Millington's Cookery. See the biographical fragment entitled "Early Public Life." -
The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of
Elizabeth Fenning: being a Detail of Extraordinary Facts Discovered since her
Execution, including, The Official Report of her Singular Trial, Now First Published,
and Copious Notes thereon. Also, Numerous Authentic Documents; An Argument on her Case; A
Memorial to H. R. H. the Prince Regent; & Strictures on a Late Pamphlet of the
Prosecutor's Apothecary; with Thirty Letters, Written by the Unfortunate Girl while in
Prison: an Appendix, and an Appropriate Dedication. [Epigraph: "If imputation and
strong circumstances, / Which lead directly to the door of truth, / Will give you
satisfaction, you may have it."--SHAKESPEARE.]
Author: William Hone
Author: John Watkins
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1815
Printed by: J. Moyes, Greville Street, London
Price Six Shillings and Sixpence.
After witnessing Fenning's execution, Hone became interested in the case. Fenning was (in Hone's view) a person who was the victim chiefly of a flawed legal system. See also Circumstantial Evidence and La Pie Voleuse. -
The King's Statue, at Guildhall, or, French Colours and French Principles Put
Down; a Serio-Comic Dialogue, Between Mr. Foresight, Citizen and Spectacle-Maker; and
Mr. Contract, Citizen and Long-Bowstring-Maker
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1815
Broadside; 2 eds.; 1s. 6d. tinted; 2s. fully colored.
Like the Regent's Bomb, this is an illustrated broadside containing a satirical dialogue. Hone, incidentally, bought his freedom of the City of London through the Spectacle-Makers' Company which may explain the background of one of the characters. -
The Late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministerial Member; Taken from an Original
Manuscript in Mr. Wilkes's Handwriting, never before printed, and adapted to the
present Occasion
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
Printed by: "Printed for one of the Candidates for the Office of Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty"
8 pages, 2d.
Together with the Political Litany and the Sinecurist's Creed, parodies for which Hone was charged with blasphemous and seditious libel in 1817. Marcus Wood (see Secondary Source Bibliography) contends that Hone really did, as the title claims, adapt this work from a Wilkes manuscript in his possession.
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Letters to the Lord Mayor With an Appendix, containing an analysis and New Classification of the
State of the Representation, and the House of Commons
Author: Major Cartwright
Publication Details: London: Will. Hone, at the Reformist's Register Office, 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
Printed by: John McCreery
103 cols.; 2d.
Hone and the venerable reformer Major Cartwright were long- time acquaintances. This collection of letters sets forth Cartwright's criticism of such practices as boroughmongering that make the Commons anything but representative of the English people. -
The Life of William Cobbett, Author of the Political Register.
Written by Himself
Author: William Cobbett
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, (Three Doors from Ludgate Hill.), 1816
Printed by: Macdonald and Son
16 pages; 9 eds; 4d.
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Lord Byron's Corsair. Conrad, the Corsair; or, The Pirates' Isle. A Tale. By Lord Byron. Adapted as a Romance.
Author: George Gordon, Lord Byron
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Reformists' Register Office, 67, Old Bailey, 1817, 1817
Printed by: William Hone
16 pages; 4d.
A prose rewriting of Byron's 1814 poem. Hone may have gotten the idea from an 1814 review of the poem in The Critical Review which he edited.
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The Man in the Moon, &c. &c. &c. [Epigraph: "If Caesar can hide the Sun with a blanket, or put
the Moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light."--Cymbeline.] With
Fifteen Cuts.
Author: William Hone
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1820
Printed by: William Hone
A parody of the address of the Prince Regent to Parliament, written in comic verse and illustrated with several Cruikshank engravings. In the introduction to Facetiae and Miscellanies, Hone claims that he did not write the poem, though he does not say who did.
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The Meeting in Spa Fields: Hone's authentic and correct account, at length, of
all proceedings on Monday, December 2d; with the resolutions and petition of Nov. 15,
1816
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 1816
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The Midnight Intruder; or, Old Nick at C--lt-n H--se A Poem. By W. R. H. Author of Gaul, King of Ragah, A tragic drama, in
3 parts; The Rats of Mousiana, &c. [Epigram verse from poem: "God prosper
long our R-----t brave,-- / No pain or sorrow may he have, / From gout good angels
free him. / In every pleasure may he revel, / And like St. Dunstan treat the D---l, /
When next he comes to see him."]
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1816
Printed by: W. Thorogood
Price Eighteen Pence.
A satirical ballad in the Peter Pindar mode mocking the Prince Regent. -
Napoleon and the Spots in the Sun; or, The R----t's Waltz; and Who Waltzed with
Him--and Where A Poetical Flight with Notes Variorum, by Syntax Sidrophel, F. S.
A.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1816
Printed by: Hay and Turner
Eighteen Pence
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"Non Mi Ricordo!" &c. &c. &c. [Epigraph: "This will witness outwardly, as strongly as the
conscience does within"--Cymbeline]
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1820
Printed by: William Hone
Sixpence.
Satirical attack on George IV and on the credibility of the Italian witnesses against Queen Caroline who, under questioning, repeatedly answered with "Non mi ricordo" (i.e. "I don't remember").
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Official Account. Bartholomew Fair Insurrection; and the Pie-Bald Poney
Plot! By the Author of The Noble Lord's Bite--The Trial of the Dog,
&c.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Reformists' Register Office, 67, Old Bailey, 1817
Printed by: William Hone
8 pages; 2d.
Whimsical account of the expected but abortive uprising; may contain the germ idea for Political Showman as prominent political figures are portrayed as animals. -
Official Account of the Noble Lord's 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
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 67, Old Bailey, Three Doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
Printed by: William Hone
Price Four-Pence.
Satire in which Castlereagh lies in bed, having been bitten by his dog, while many governmental figures (and the publisher John Murray) come to visit him. See also Another Ministerial Defeat!. -
On the Liberty of the Press and Public Discussion
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate-Hill, 1821
38 pages; One shilling
Hone and Bentham were quite close during the early 1820s; Bentham's work on the free press was sparked in part by Hone's trials. -
La Pie Voleuse. The Narrative of the Magpie; or The Maid of Palaiseau. Being the
History of the Maid and the Magpie Founded upon the Circumstance of an unfortunate female having been
Unjustly Sentenced to Death, on Strong Presumptive Evidence. With a Preface, and
Curious Anecdotes. The romantic Drama of the Maid and the Magpie has excited the
deepest and most extraordinary Interest, and is received with Unanimous and Repeated
Shouts of Applause
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet-Street, 1815
Printed by: J. Swan, 76, Fleet Street
Price Sixpence
A rather crude prose version of a drama that was playing to enthusiastic crowds in London. Hone's narrative is meant to call to mind the case of Elizabeth Fenning who was tried and executed on the power of circumstantial evidence.
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Poems on his Domestic Circumstances I. Fare Thee Well! II. A Sketch from Private Life. By Lord Byron. With
the Star of the Legion of Honour, and Other Poems
Author: George Gordon, Lord Byron
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1816
32 pages; 24(?) eds.; 1s.
Hone likely pirated the first two poems listed in the title from The Champion newspaper, which in turn had pirated them from Murray's privately printed edition. -
A Political Catechism, Dedicated, Without Permission, to His Most Serene Highness
Omar, Bashaw, Dey, and Governor, of the Warlike City and Kingdom of Algiers; The Earl
of Liverpool; Lord Castlereagh, and Co. By an Englishman
Publication Details: London: Printed for one of the Candidates for the Office of Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and Sold by William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, three Doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
8 pages; 2d.
Not to be confused with The Late John Wilkes's Catechism for which Hone was prosecuted, this parodic catechism--not by Hone--circulated widely in the same channels with Hone's work. -
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters
Author: William Hazlitt
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1819
439 pages; 12s., 14s. in boards
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The Political House that Jack Built. "A straw thrown up to show which way
the wind blows." With Thirteen Cuts. [Cruikshank engraving of scales with pen in one
side clearly outweighing three documents called "Bank Restriction,"
"Bill of Indemnity," and "Ex-Officio" in the other. Wellington is
dropping a sword onto the documents--it remains to be seen whether the combined force
will outweigh the pen (i.e. whether military force will overpower the free press).
Caption: "The Pen and the Sword."]
Author: William Hone
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819
Printed by: William Hone
70+ eds.; 1 s.
Probably Hone's most famous publication, it contains a satirical commentary on Peterloo, government spies and informers, corruption, royal foppery, etc. accompanied by Cruikshank's brilliant engravings. The work sold more than 100,000 copies.
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The Political Litany, Diligently Revised; to be Said or Sung, Until the Appointed
Change Come, Throughout The Dominion of England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick
upon Tweed. By Special Command
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: Printed for one of the Candidates for the Office of Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and Sold by William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
2d.
Together with The Late John Wilkes's Catechism and The Sinecurist's Creed, liturgical parodies for which Hone was tried in 1817.
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The Political Showman--At Home! Exhibiting his Cabinet of Curiosities and
Creatures--All Alive! By the Author of the Political House that Jack Built. [Epigraph:
"I lighted on a certain place where was a Den."--Bunyan] With Twenty-Four
Cuts. [Engraving of a many-headed gargoylish creature, the heads caricatures of
prominent government ministers.] "The putrid and mouldering carcase of exploded
Legitimacy."--Mr. Lambton.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1821
32 pages; 27 eds.; 1s.
Cruikshank caricatures of prominent government figures surrounded by text --quotations from Marvell, Cowper, Shakespeare, etc.--selected by Hone. The work had a large influence on the public stature of the persons represented.
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Poor Humphrey's Calendar. Wherein are Given Mysterious Warnings, Plain Hints,
True Tokens, Judicial Judgments, Prognostications, and Prophecies concerning the Signs
of the Times; Especially Things to Come in 1829: Discreetly shadowed forth to the
Understanding of Listeners to the Voice of the Stars. . . .
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: Matilda Hone, Printseller. 29, Russel-Court, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden, 1829
2 eds.; 1s., stitched.
A bizarre almanac Hone produced apparently in order to forward his daughter Matilda's newly established print and bookselling shop. Matilda was Hone's third daughter, born 26 July 1805. -
The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, A National Toy with Fourteen Step Scenes; and
Illustrations in Verse, with Eighteen other cuts. By the Author of "The Political House that Jack Built."
"The question is not merely whether the Queen shall have her rights, but whether
the rights of any individual in the kingdom shall be free from violation."--Her
Majesty's Answer to the Norwich Address. [Cruikshank engraving of the Queen sitting
atop a step ladder with the Prince Regent lying on his back on the ground, having
broken a step and fallen.] {Epigraph: "Here is a Gentleman, and a friend of
mine!"--Measure for Measure.]
Author: William Hone
Author: George Cruikshank
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1820
Printed by: William Hone
22 pages; 44+ eds.; "This Pamphlet and the Toy together, ONE SHILLING."
This Hone/Cruikshank production depicts the stages in Queen Caroline's relationship with the Regent/George IV. Hone marketed the work along with a small paper ladder, the "toy," from which the work takes its form and its title.
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The Report at Large of the Coroner's Inquest on Jane Watson, Shot at Mr.
Robinson's Address, &c., to the Inquest, at length. The Verdict,--Wilful Murder,
against Mr. Robinson's Butler, the Corporal, and Two Soldiers Specially Reported by William Hone, One of the Evidence; and Reporter
of the Extraordinary Proceedings before the Coroner's Inquest, on the Body of Edward
Vyse, also Killed by the Firing at Mr. Robinson's
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: Hone, 55, Fleet-Street, 1815
Printed by: J. M'Creery
44 pages; 18d.
During the Corn Law riots in early March, 1815, Hone happened to witness a shooting in front of Robinson's house; he published the subsequent inquests. See also the report of the Vyse inquest. -
The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong! Dedicated to the Holy Alliance by the
Author of the Political House that Jack Built [Engraving of gruesome-looking king figure being annointed with
"discord" and "oil of steel" by a placeman and a churchman.]
"The devil will not have me damn'd, lest the oil that is in me should set hell on
fire."--Shakespeare.
Author: William Hone
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1821
60 pages; 18d.
Text is Hone's radical revision and abbreviation of Defoe's Jure Divino (1706); contains also a prose introduction on Defoe, "divine right," etc.
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The Right of the People to Universal Sufferage and Annual Parliaments, Clearly
Demonstrated. By the late Duke of Richmond. The Arguments in this pamphlet are
unanswerable.
Author: Charles Lennox, the Third Duke of Richmond
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
Printed by: Macdonald and Son
8 pages; 2d., or 11s. per hundred
A reprint of Richmond's address advocating universal male suffrage; originally published in 1783, frequently republished by radicals in the 1790s and after. -
The Rules and Regulations of an Institution Called Tranquillity; Commenced in the
Metropolis as an Economical Bank, to Afford Persons of All Ages, Trades, and
Descriptions, an Opportunity of Providing for Their Future Wants by the Payment of
Small Sums, in a Way Calculated to Secure to each Contributor, or to His Widow and
Children, the Benefit of His Own Economy: and Also, for Enabling Youth of Both Sexes,
to Deposit Their small Savings to Accumulate until the Time of Their Respective
Marriages to be then Returned to Them with Interest and Proportionate Premiums.
&c. &c. &c. Office of the Institution, Albion Street, Black Friars Bridge.
Author: John Bone
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: Printed for the Use of the Members, and May be had at the Office, 1807
Printed by: Theodore Page
Price threepence, or 2s. 6d. Per Dozen to Give Away
John Bone and Hone set up the Tranquillity project--a kind of annuity scheme aimed ultimately at abolishing the Poors Rates--in late 1806 or early 1807. It lasted only about one year.
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- The Second Trial of William Hone, on an Ex-Officio Information. At Guildhall,
London, December 19, 1817, Before Lord Ellenborough and a Special Jury, for Publishing
a Parody, With an Alleged Intent to Ridicule The Litany, and Libel the Prince Regent,
the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, 1817
45 pages; 15+ eds.; 1s.
Transcript of the trial; see also the Three Trials of William Hone, where this publication is bound together with the other trials and the proceedings from the public meeting called to celebrate Hone's acquittals. -
The Sinecurist's Creed, or Belief; as the Same Can or May be Sung
or Said Throughout the Kingdom. By Authority. From Hone's Weekly Commentary,
No. 2.
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and 67, Old Bailey, three doors from Ludgate Hill, 1817
2d.
Together with The Late John Wilkes's Catechism and The Political Litany, parodies for which Hone was charged and tried in 1817.
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Sixty Curious and Authentic Narratives and Anecdotes, repsecting Extraordinary
Characters: Illustrative of the Tendency of Credulity and Fanaticism; Exemplifying
the Imperfections of Circumstantial Evidence; and Recording Singular Instances
of Voluntary Human Suffering and Interesting Occurrences
Author: John Cecil [pseud. William Hone]
Publication Details: London: William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819
Printed by: Hay and Turner, Newcastle-street, Strand
295 pages, with Hone's Preface, i-vi
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A Slap at Slop and the Bridge-Street Gang
Author: William hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone,45, Ludgate-Hill, 1821
4 page news-sheet; later issued in octavo format.
Parodic newspaper--with many Cruikshank engravings, including a beautiful triptych portraying the fate of the press--satirizing the efforts of John Stoddart ("Dr. Slop") and the conservative Constitutional Association. See also Buonapartephobia of 1820.
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Some Account of the Conversion from Atheism to Christianity of the
Late William Hone, Author of "The Political House that Jack Built,"
etc. and of "The Every-Day Book," "Table Book," and
"Year Book." With further particulars of His Life and Extracts
from His Correspondence
Author: Frances Rolleston
Publication Details: London: Francis and John Rivington,
Publication Details: Keswick: James Ivison1853
Printed by: J. Ivison, Keswick
Second ed.; 88 pages
Rolleston met Hone when they were neighbors in 1834; they remained cordial for the rest of Hone's life. The work is a very pious account of Hone's conversion to Christianity; Hone is frequently referred to as a "brand snatched from the burning." Nonetheless, the work is an indispensible biographical resource. -
The Spirit of Despotism Dedicated to Lord Castlereagh. Edited by the Author of "The Political House that Jack Built."
Author: Vicesimus Knox
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1821
96 pages; 9 eds.; 1s. 6d.
Abbreviation of Knox's work from the 1790s, published here over objections from Knox's son; Hone later issued a 340-page edition with Knox's name on the title page. -
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: including the Rural
and Domestic Recreations. May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants,
and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time By Joseph Strutt. Illustrated by One hundred and forty engravings, in which
are represented most of the Popular Diversions; selected from Ancient Paintings.
A New Edition, with a Copious Index, by William Hone
Author: Joseph Strutt
William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Reeves Bridge-Court, Westminster, 1830
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The Table Book With Seventy Engravings
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: Hunt and Clarke, York-Street, Covent-Garden, 1827
The follow-up to Hone's Every-Day Book--a compendium of English folk culture materials. Hone was laboring under bankruptcy, publishing materials that he had collected for the Every-Day Book, which was discontinued at the end of 1826. See also the Year Book -
The Third Trial of William Hone, on an Ex-Officio Information. At
Guildhall, London, December 20, 1817, Before Lord Ellenborough and a Special
Jury, for Publishing a Parody, on the Athanasian Creed, Entitled "The
Sinecurist's Creed."
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, 1818
Printed by: William Hone
44 pages; 16+ eds.; 1s.
Transcript of the trial; see also The Three Trials of William Hone, where this publication is bound together with the other two trials. -
The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies; viz.
The Late John Wilkes's Catechism, The Political Litany, and The Sinecurist's
Creed; on Three Ex-Officio Informations, at Guildhall, London, during Three
Successive Days, December 18, 19, & 20, 1817; before Three Special Juries,
and Mr. Justice Abbott, on the First Day, and Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough,
on the Last Two Days. Thrice the brindled cat hath mew'd!--Shakespeare
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, 1818
Printed by: William Hone
Four Shillings in Boards
A collected edition of all three trials (with separate pagination); also contains the Trial by Jury. Hone's Three Trials proved to be very popular reading; they were reissued several times in the nineteenth century. -
Trial by Jury and Liberty of the Press. The Proceedings at the Public
Meeting, December 29, 1817, At the City of London Tavern, For the Purpose
of Enabling William Hone to Surmount the Difficulties in which he has been
Placed by being Selected by the Ministers of the Crown as the Object of
their Persecution. Mr. Waithman in the Chair. With the Resolutions and the
Speeches of Mr. Waithman, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Alderman Thorp, Mr. Perry,
Mr. P. Walker, Lord Cochrane, Mr. Charles Pearson, Mr. Sturch, and Mr. Wooler.
Also, the Subscriptions Received from Time to Time, With all the Names,
Mottoes, &c.
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 67, Old Bailey, 1818
Printed by: William Hone
approx. 28 pages; 7 eds.; 6d.
Mainly transcripts of speeches celebrating Hone's victories; subscriber list includes many prominent radicals and a few government figures as well. Often bound with Hone's Three Trials. -
Wat Tyler; a Dramatic Poem A New Edition.
With a Preface Suitable to Recent Circumstances
Author: Robert Southey
Publication Details: London: W. Hone, 67, Old Bailey, and 55, Fleet Street, 1817
94 pages; 2s. 6d.
A piracy of the now-Tory Southey's early radical work; intended, probably, to ridicule and embarrass the conservatives. Hone's Preface draws heavily on a commentary from the Morning Chronicle which takes Southey to task for holding extremely intolerant, uncompromising views of those who adhere to principles that he had himself espoused some dozen years before. Hone also includes an extended prefatory excerpt from Hume's History of England which narrates the events of the historical Wat Tyler episode. -
The Yacht for THE R----T'S B-M-. A Poetical Epistle, from Brother
John in England, to Brother Pat in Ireland
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Hone, 1816
Broadside; 6d.
Half-sheet broadside with (in British Library copy) yellow colored engraving of ship at the top; poem in three columns in the center; prose description of yacht in two columns at bottom.
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information; concerning Remarkable
Men and Manners, Times and Seasons. Solemnities and Merry-Makings, Antiquities
and Novelties, on the Plan of the Every-Day Book and Table Book, or Everlasting
Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Customs, and
Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past
and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual
Key to the Almanack
Author: William Hone
Publication Details: London: William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen Street. Cheapside, 1832
In the early 1830s an impoverished Hone produced this antiquarian work on the model of his Every-Day Book and Table Book. According to Hone's daughter, the Tegg publishing house earned thousands of pounds from their purchase of Hone's copyrights.
