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Record Nr.

UNISA996395259303316

Titolo

A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters [[electronic resource] ] : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toys, &c. are added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by J.R. for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1682

Edizione

[The seventeenth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

[6], 42, 41-229 [i.e, 243], [1] p

Soggetti

Epigrams - 17th century

Anecdotes

Cookery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Often attributed to William Basse or Edward Pond; this attribution, however, is doubtful. Also attributed to Edward Phillips; this attribution is impossible as Phillips born after the first edition.

"The country-man's counsellor" has caption title on p. 127, and "Sphinx and Oedipus" has caption title on p. 174; register and pagination are continuous.

Page 243 is misnumbered 229; text is continuous despite pagination.

Pages stained, torn and faded, with some loss of print.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014