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The Wit's magazine; or, Library of Momus : Being a compleat repository of mirth, humour, and entertainment.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available from 1784 until 1785. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Author/Creator:
- Holcroft, Thomas, 1757-1827, Author.
- 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
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