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 ... /
Hone, William,1780-1842.
Brooks, Luke,printer.
David, Jacques Louis,1748-1825,illustrator.
Kennerley, J,engraver.
[London] : Printed for W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street, and sold by E. Wilson, 37, Cornhill, and by all booksellers, printsellers, stationers, and newsmen, throughout the United Kingdom ...,
[1815]
A satiric attack on John Stoddart ("Dr. Slop"), the lead writer for The Times. Hone's parody of a real newspaper was based on Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
Broadside printed in the form of a newspaper in 3 columns.
By William Hone. Dates from May, 1815. Cf. George cited below.
At bottom: "[London: Printed by Luke Brooks, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square."
At head of title: With the portrait of Napoleon as he now is; from the fine original picture painted by the celebrated David.
Decorated with The Times letterhead and vignette and by J. Kennerley's engraved copy of Jacques Louis David's half length portrait of Napoleon in uniform.
George, D. Br. Museum catalogue,
A satiric attack on John Stoddart ("Dr. Slop"), the lead writer for The Times. Hone's parody of a real newspaper was based on Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Stoddart, John, 1773-1856.
Political satire, English.
England London.