The chanticleer: No. 1. London, May 28, 1829. Price 3s
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Veröffentlicht: London [Edgerley & Co. Printers, 208, Sloane Street.] 1829
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Beschreibung:An elaborate spoof in the form of a newspaper (sole issue) with two adverts (one for a fictitious book quoting Quarterly Review and Edinburgh Review) but chiefly a report of a "hen petition" being read in Commons, with the debate & vote. The petition is introduced by "Sir Bantam Cocks," who believes that a newly invented "hatching machine" will have disastrous consequences for the hens; he also believes that "the same ill-directed ingenuity" which created that machine may contrive an "improved method of laying eggs" without any hens' involvement; the usual economists' argument for the capitalist--when one branch of trade fails, simply reinvest in another--is insufficient; he fears that many similar "improvements" carry "desolation, pestilence, and death" with them. The petition quotes the Board of Trade (W. Vesey-Fitzgerald?) as stating that 16 million eggs were imported in the last year and cites an instance of thus-unemployed hens, "allured by ... R. Wilmot Horton's argum.... . - Caption title; between title and dateline is a wood-engraved cock above the motto Dum spiro cano [While I breathe, I crow]. -- Imprint (no place, date) at foot of column 3, p.4. - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. Unknown. - OCLC, 33839921. - Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London
Beschreibung:4 p. orn 32 cm
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