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The comick magazine; or, Compleat library: of mirth, humour, wit, gaiety, and entertainment. By the greatest wits of all ages & nations. Enriched with Hogarth's celebrated ... prints. (Hogarth, William, ill. 1697-1764,) (Harrison & Co.,) v., plates ; 21 cm (8⁰). Vol. I. [No. I.-no. X. [1796-1797]] (London [England] :) printed for Harrison and Co. no. 18, Paternoster Row,MDCCXCVI. [i.e. 1797]
Title page partly engraved.
Chief title repeated as caption at head of first page of text.
Frontis. plate in each issue forms part of a series: Industry and Idleness, detailing the progress of two apprentices.
Plates dated: April 1, 1796 to January 2, 1797.
With continuous pagination.
Collections of jokes, anecdotes, and comick verse.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.
NCBEL, II:1311
Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 34
Times handlist, p. 47
Crane & Kaye, 1132
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6308.
Issue and volume lack chronological designation apart from imprint date and dates of plates.
No more published.
Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group).
Collects, with added prefatory material, individual issues of The Comick Magazine.

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Date Published: 27 March 2017