Recreation for ingenious head-peeces. Or, A pleasant grove for their wits to vvalk in. : Of epigrams, 700. Epitaphs, 200. Fancies, a number. Fantasticks, abundance. With their new addition, multiplication and division.

Wit's recreations.
Wit's recreations.

London : Printed by S. Simmons, in Aldersgate-Street, 1663.

[432] p. : ill. (engravings, woodcuts) ; (8vo)

Other editions attributed by Wing to Sir John Mennes, and by NUC pre-1956 to Mennes and James Smith, but includes the work of others.

With additional engraved title page (A1r): Witt's Recreations refined augmented, ... Printed by M: Symmons and, S: Symmons. 1663. W. Marshall sculpsit.

Signatures: A-2D⁸.

With divisional title page on leaf P5r: Fancies and fantasticks.

Originally published in 1640 as "Wits recreations".

Identified as Wing W3222 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1346.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms International, 1982. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1346:22).

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 (CD-ROM, 1996), M1715
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R27079

Fancies and fantasticks.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

W3222

181096. Binding signed by Wallis. Engraved bookplate signed by H.J.F. Badeley, 1938. E2.7 is bound after E3.6. Provenance: armorial bookplate of C. H. Wilkinson