Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus, or, The sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that...
Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus, or, The sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing [electronic resource] : in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects, viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements, 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions, 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drolleries and other verses, 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty, 5. The muses elizium, several poetical fictions, 6. The perfect inditer, letters ala mode, 7. Cardinal Richelieu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers, 8. Games and sports now used at this day among the gentry of England, &c. : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities ... / by I.C.
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Publisher
London : Printed for N. Brook ..., 1662.
Date
1662.
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English
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[15], 496, [15] p.
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Publisher
London : Printed for N. Brook ..., 1662.
Edition
The 2d edition, with many new additions.
Analytical title
Wits interpreter.
Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.
English Parnassus.
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1662.
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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus, or, The sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing [electronic resource] : in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects, viz....
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Wits interpreter.
Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.
English Parnassus.
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry.
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Notes
General note
Attributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).
Added t.p., engraved: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.
Advertisement: p. 496-[15] at end.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Citation / References Note
Wing C6371.
Additional physical form availability note
Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:18)
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