The political litany, diligently revised; to be said or sung, until the appointed change come, throughout the Dominion of England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed. By special command
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 D. Dowiick, 46, Barbicon, London], 1817. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8; removed from binding; lightly spotted; all else very good, sound, and clean. "The Political Litany was one of four liturgical parodies Hone composed and published in very early 1817. Together with The Late John Wilkes's Catechism and The Sinecurist's Creed, The Political Litany was one of the works singled out for prosecution by the Attorney General. (For reasons that are not at all clear, the fourth parody, The Bullet Te Deum, was ignored by the authorities.) Borrowing its form from the litany of the Book of Common Prayer, The Political Litany uses the call-and-response form to dramatize the social, economic, and political demands of the reformers while simultaneously satirizing the pretensions of the current parliament" (honearchive[.]org). Goldsmiths'-Kress 21955. Item #66773
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