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Record Nr.

UNISA996386731703316

Autore

Cotgrave John <fl. 1655.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]

Edizione

[3d edition with many new additions.]

Descrizione fisica

[14], 175, 345 [i.e. 245], 128 p. : ports

Soggetti

Courtship

Letter writing

Riddles

Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Games

Gentry England Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055