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.

Author/creator Cotgrave, John
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.
Description[16], 175, [1], 345, [3], 128 p. : ill., ports.
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Variant title Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing.
Variant title Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteI.C. = John Cotgrave.
General noteWith an engraved undated title page on verso of leaf before title page, with imprint "Brookes" that reads: Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus.
General noteWith a vertical half-title on the leaf following p. 345. Variant: this leaf is blank.
General noteThe words "The art of reasoning .. and other verses" are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "Cyprian goddess .. letters by cyphers".
General noteAnnotation on Thomason copy: "May 7".
General noteReproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and in the Bodleian Library (Early English books, 1641-1700).
References Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C6370.
References Thomason E.1448[1].
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 185:E1448[1])
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