The bullet Te Deum; with the canticle of the stone. Imprimatur. F. Rabelais. Price Two-pence.
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. [Printed by J. D. Dewick, 46, Barbican], 1817. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8; removed from binding, else near fine. "The Bullet te Deum; with the Canticle of the Stone was one of the brief parodies Hone wrote and published in early 1817. The occasion for the work was an incident on 29 January 1817 when the Prince Regent's carriage, returning from the Prince's address to parliament, was struck by a stone thrown by someone in an angry crowd. Hone borrows the form of religious language in order to elevate the incident to a national crisis--parodically imitating the over-reaction of those members of government who took a particularly repressive line against the advocates of Reform. The Bullet, for some reason, was not included among the parodies for which Hone was prosecuted later in 1817. It consists of two very brief parodies published together as a single eight-page pamphlet" (honearchive[.]org). Goldsmiths'-Kress 21954. Item #66770
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