Author:William Hone

William Hone
(1780–1842)

William Hone

Works

• The Three Trials of William Hone: for publishing three parodies; viz. The late John Wilkes's catechism, The political litany, and The sinecurist's creed (1818)
• The Bank Restriction Barometer (1819) Illustrated by George Cruikshank
• The Political House that Jack Built (1819-1820) Illustrated by George Cruikshank [IA]
• The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder (1820) Illustrated by George Cruikshank [PG]
• The Apocryphal New Testament (1820) (Editor, containing translations from William Wake and Jeremiah Jones) (external scan)
  • Reprinted as The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ (1863)
• The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong!: Dedicated to the Holy Alliance (1821) [IA]
• Facetiæ and miscellanies (1827) Illustrated by George Cruikshank. collection [IA]
  • Introduction.
  • Political House that Jack Built.
  • Man in the Moon, &c.
  • Queen's Matrimonial Ladder.
  • Dropt Clauses out of the Bill against the Queen.
  • Non Mi Recordo
  • Form of Prayer for the Queen.
  • Political Showman.
  • The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
  • Bank Note.
  • Bank Restriction Barometer.
  • Origin of Dr. Slop's Name.
  • Slap at Slop.
  • Aspersions Answered.
  • Another Article for the Quarterly Review.
• The Every-day Book and Table Book, or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, etc, etc
  • Vol 1 (of 3) [PG]
  • Vol 2 (of 3) [PG]
  • Vol 3 (of 3) [PG]
• Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects (1830) Illustrated by George Cruikshank. collection [PG]
  • The House that Jack Built
  • The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder
  • The Form of Prayer, with Thanksgiving to Almighty God
  • Non Mi Recordo
  • Political Showman
  • The Man in the Moon
  • The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong!
  • A Slap at Slop and the Bridge-Street Gang
• The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information (1850) (with 114 engravings—many by George Cruikshank) [IA]
• The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of Eliza Fenning

Works about Hone

• William Hone; his Life and Times (1912) by Frederick William Hackwood [IA]
• "Hone, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Hone, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Hone, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)