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

by William Blake

$1,250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Harrison and Co., 1784 1785. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, 1-9 , 10-485, 1 ; 1-5 , 6-193, 1 pp. Lacking the folding frontispiece but with the 4 other plates engraved by Blake after Samuel Collings. Contemporary half morocco with pebbled cloth boards. A neatly restored copy, plates with some closed tears and repairs. ß Only edition, quite scarce. These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged,

• Binding: Leather

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