William Blake Engravings. [Engravings by William Blake]. the Wit's Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth, Humour, and Entertainment. London, Printed for Harrison & Co., January 1784 to May 1785 (all published). Two volumes bound in one. First edition.17 folding engraved plates, one for each month, 485,(1),193,(1)pp., 8vo., later binding c.1900-10 (?) in half green morocco and green cloth, spine gilt in panels with raised bands, spine tanned as usual with this colour. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown and some signs of use but a very good copy. Rare.The first five plates, January to May 1784, are engraved by William Blake after other artists. See Bentley 'Blake Books' No.513. the frontispiece plate (January 1784) is Bentley's second version. Four of the five Blake plates have a short tear (2-4 cm) on one of the folds at the lower edge, sometime closed without loss or staining with old paper tape (passepartout) on the blank verso. Some of the other plates are credited to artists and engravers (Collings, Stothard) and some not, and a couple have similar minor repairs. Two of the later plates have some remargining to the lower edge, and one has been trimmed almost to the image and mounted on plain paper, presumably at the time of binding.