The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy, with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse : with eighteen other cuts
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy, with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse : with eighteen other cuts
Other titles: Joss and his folly
Classmark: YAS 1060
Creator(s): Hone, William (1780-1842)
Additional creator(s): Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) (Other)
Related people: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, 1768-1821; George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830; Cruikshank, George
Publisher: Printed by and for William Hone
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1820
Language: English
Size and medium: [24] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/498927
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010684919705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
A satire, in verse, on George IV in defense of Queen Caroline.
Attributed to William Hone by George.
"All the drawings for this publication are by Mr. George Cruikshank" -- p. [2].
Includes "The Joss and his folly : an extract of an overland dispatch," p. [20-22].
Indexed in: George 13790-13807.
Additional description
Bound with 13 other publications in volume with spine title: 'Tracts'. Volume contents: 1. The political "A, Apple-pie", or, The "Extraordinary red book". 1820. -- 2. The total eclipse. [1820] -- 3. The Queen's matrimonial ladder. 1820. -- 4. The political house that Jack built. 1820. -- 5. The Man in the moon &c. &c. &c. 1820. -- 6. "Non mi ricordo!" 1820. -- 7. The political showman -- at home! 1821. -- 8. The coronation dirge. [1820?] -- 9. The lament of the Emerald Isle. 1818. -- 10. The Queen's case stated. 1820. -- 11. Royalty fog-bound. 1815. -- 12. Proceedings in the House of Commons [etc.] [1818] -- 13. Remarks on the sermon [etc.] 1819. -- 14. Huddersfield Festival, 1821. [1821] With a list of contents in manuscript on flyleaf. Item no.13: with manuscript annotations on title page
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