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

• Autore: Cotgrave John <fl. 1655.>
• Pubblicazione: 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
• Soggetto topico: Courtship; Letter writing; Riddles; Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Games
• Soggetto geografico: Gentry England Early works to 1800
• Note generali: Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0055
• Titolo autorizzato: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996386731703316
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