The explosion: or, An alarming providential check to immorality
Subtitle: A poem. Occasioned by the late dreadful explosion of gunpowder, on the fifth day of November, 1772, in the city of Chester; whereby a company assembled at a puppet-show, performed by George Williams, were blown up, and many killed and wounded. Wherein is given a lively, striking and particular description of that most deplorably dreadful and alarming catastrophe. Interspersed with serious and moral reflections, expostulations and exhortations, to readers in general; but particularly magistrates and clergy. To which is added, notes; containing the testimony of the moral heathens and others, against theatrical entertainments ...
By: By a citizen of Chester ...
Publisher: Printed for the author: and sold by T. Longman in Paternoster-row, and W. Cater in Red-Lion-street, Holbourn, London; P. Broster in Chester, T. Harrop in Manchester; J. Gore in Liverpool; T. Banks in Warrington; and J. Eddowes in Shrewsbury.
Published: 1773
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Notes: "Verses occasioned by reading the Explosion" (p. iii-iv) signed: Thomas B---k--y.

The author's name is given in the next to the last line of these verses as "B---d--n."