Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that co...
Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A 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, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical 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. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
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London : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]
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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus.
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing.
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MDCLXXI. [1671]
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[14], 520 p.
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London : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]
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3d edition with many new additions.
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England
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MDCLXXI. [1671]
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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A 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....
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J.C. = John Cotgrave.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... of beauty." are gathered by a right brace on title page; the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... by cyphers." are gathered by a left brace.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library....
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Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C6372.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:19; 2477:14)
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