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[004545] [Hone, William]. A Slap at Slop and the Bridge-Street Gang. ill. Cruikshank, George. London: William Hone, 1821. Reprint. Elephant Folio. Unbound. Newspaper. Good. [4]p.

Creased from old folds, with a couple of closed splits to those folds, a few small nicks and tears to edges, small amount of loss along fold to first two pages with subsequent loss of a few words of text, lightly browned but generally fairly clean

With a parody of the newspaper tax stamp to upper right hand corner of mast head

A satirical publication primarily attacking Sir John Stoddart of The New Times, who Hone satirised as Dr Slop (after Sterne’s Tristram Shandy) and the Constitutional Association for Opposing the Progress of Disloyal and Seditious Principles (the Bridge-Street Gang of the title), with Robert Southey also being a prominent target

This is the Twenty-Eighth edition, and it was also later reprinted in octavo

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