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The Wit's magazine.
- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English wit and humor--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English wit and humor.
- Satire, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Satire, English.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Early works.
- Periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Monthly
- January 1784.-May 1785.
- Other Title:
- Section title: Sphinx
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster Row ; By whom letters to the editor are received, [1784-1785]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Editor and contributor to no. 1-4: Thomas Holcroft.
- Title and date repeated as caption on first page of text.
- Title page includes contents list.
- Imprints lack dates.
- Years of publication from dates of issues.
- With title page vignettes in two medallions: one, a sphinx, the other an athlete being crowned with laurel by Victory.
- 'Sphinx' section has engraved title within a swag of laurel below cut of a sphinx.
- Plates in first five numbers engraved by William Blake.
- Includes several series of essays: The Story-teller, no. 1-5 (Jan.-May 1784); The Town-talker, no. 1-3 (Feb.-Apr. 1784); The Night-walker, no. 1-8 (July 1784-Mar. 1785); The Traveller, no. 1-4 (Jan.-Apr. 1785), as well as anecdotes, poetry, jokes, and the puzzles and riddles in the 'Sphinx' section.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Issues have chronological designation only.
- Cumulated by: The Wit's Magazine; or, Library of Momus.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1307
- Crane & Kaye, 960
- Times handlist, p. 45
- English Short Title Catalog, P1901
- Contains:
- Story-teller. No. I-V.
- Town-talker. No. I-III.
- Traveller. No. I-IV.
- Night-walker. No. I-VIII.
- Sphinx. No. I-XVII.
- OCLC:
- 609596798
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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