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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus [electronic resource] : or, a sure guide to those admirable...

Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus [electronic resource] : or, a sure guide to those admirable...

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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus [electronic resource] : or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. By I.C.

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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus [electronic resource] : or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. By I.C.

Publisher

London : Printed for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.

Alternative title

Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing.
Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus.

Date

1655.

Record Identifier

74VvKdvPVGbg

MMS ID

991007715899702626

Language

English

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Physical content

[16], 175, [1], 345, [3], 128 p. : ill., ports.

Publication information

Publisher

London : Printed for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1655.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus [electronic resource] : or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The...

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General note

I.C. = John Cotgrave.

With an engraved undated title page on verso of leaf before title page, with imprint "Brookes" that reads: Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus.

With a vertical half-title on the leaf following p. 345. Variant: this leaf is blank.

Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and in the Bodleian Library (Early English books, 1641-1700)....

Citation / References Note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C6370.

Thomason E.1448[1].

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/117.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 185:E1448[1])

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74VvKdvPVGbg

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MMS ID

991007715899702626