The Wit's magazine [electronic resource].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Blake, William, 1745-1809, engraver.

Holcroft, Thomas, 1757-1827, ed.

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:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v. , plates )

Monthly

January 1784.-May 1785.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster Row; by whom letters to the editor are received, [1785]

Notes:

Cumulated by: The Wit's Magazine; or, Library of Momus.

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).

Issues have chronological designation only.

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