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 Info | London : Printed for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655. |
| Description | [16], 175, [1], 345, [3], 128 p. : ill., ports. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248515555 |
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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. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | I.C. = John Cotgrave. |
| General note | With an engraved undated title page on verso of leaf before title page, with imprint "Brookes" that reads: Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus. |
| General note | With a vertical half-title on the leaf following p. 345. Variant: this leaf is blank. |
| General note | The words "The art of reasoning .. and other verses" are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "Cyprian goddess .. letters by cyphers". |
| General note | Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 7". |
| General note | Reproductions 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 note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 185:E1448[1]) |
| Stock number | CL0051000006 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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