The Wit?s Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth, Humour, and Entertainment

[Blake, William.]

Publication Date: 1784

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London: Harrison and Co., 1784?1785. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, [1-9], 10-485, (1); [1-5], 6-193, (1) pp. With a folding frontispiece (second version) and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake, one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards, modern-calf backstrip and tips, a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. ? Only edition. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged, particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' (Blake to Trusler 1799). Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic works." (Essick, CBE, p. 37). Bentley, Blake Books, 513. Essick, William Blake?s Commercial Book Illustrations, XVI.

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The Wit?s Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth, Humour, and Entertainment

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