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. : 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; all which are collected with industry and care, ... The 2d edition, with many new additions, by I.C.
1662
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Title
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. : 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; all which are collected with industry and care, ... The 2d edition, with many new additions, by I.C.
Created/published
London : Printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1662.
Description
[16], 392, 369-496, [14] p. : ill., ports. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Note
I.C. = John Cotgrave.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... description of beauty." are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... of England, &c.".
With an engraved, undated title page, with printer's name given in imprint as "Brookes" and with title "Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus", signed: R. Gaywood fecit.
The last leaf is blank.
Engr. title page = A1.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... description of beauty." are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... of England, &c.".
With an engraved, undated title page, with printer's name given in imprint as "Brookes" and with title "Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus", signed: R. Gaywood fecit.
The last leaf is blank.
Engr. title page = A1.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), C6371
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R2221
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R2221
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
C6371
Folger-specific note
8.24.40. Provenance: signatures of T. Poitvin and W. A. White