See Notes Multiple Contributors

The Wit's Magazine. See Notes Multiple Contributors

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

P001901

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.

London [England] : printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster Row; by whom letters to the editor are received, [1784-1785]. v. , plates ; 8°?p ?s(21 cm.)