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. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall 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. By I.C.
1655
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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. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall 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. By I.C.
Created/published
London : Printed for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.
Description
[16], 175, [1], 160, 261-345, [3], 128 p. : ill., ports. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Cotgrave, John, active 1655, author.
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, printmaker.
Jolley, Thomas, former owner.
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, printmaker.
Jolley, Thomas, former owner.
Note
I.C. = John Cotgrave.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. The art of reasoning ... and other verses." are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "5. Cyprian goddess, ... letters by cyphers".
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: Gaywood fecit.
With a vertical half-title, "Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus", on the leaf following p. 345. Variant: this leaf is blank.
Engr. title page = A1
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 7".
Partly in verse.
The words "1. The art of reasoning ... and other verses." are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "5. Cyprian goddess, ... letters by cyphers".
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: Gaywood fecit.
With a vertical half-title, "Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus", on the leaf following p. 345. Variant: this leaf is blank.
Engr. title page = A1
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 7".
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 85)
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.), C6370
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.1448[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R4887
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.1448[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R4887
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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C6370
Folger-specific note
cs49. Variant. Provenance: bookplate of Thomas Jolley