The Wit's magazine; or, Library of Momus : Being a compleat repository of mirth, humour, and entertainment.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Holcroft, Thomas, 1757-1827, Author.

Contributor:

Blake, William, 1745-1809, engraver.

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 (2 v., plates )

Annual

1784-1785.

Other Title:

Wit's magazine; or, Library of Momus

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster Row, M DCC LXXXIV.-M DCC LXXXV. [1784-1785]

Notes:

Cumulates monthly issues with added prefatory material of: The Wit's Magazine.

Editor and contributor to no. 1-4: Thomas Holcroft.

With title page vignette.

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).

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Individual issues numbered I-XVII in indexes to cumulated volumes.

Vol. II incomplete; no more known to have been published after May 1785. Cf. NCBEL.

Finding Aid/Index:

Prose, poetry, puzzles and contributors indexed at end of each volume.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1307

NCBEL, II:1287

Times handlist, p. 45

English Short Title Catalog, P1902.

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:

642234220