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 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.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cotgrave, John, active 1655.

Series:

• Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Letter writing--Early works to 1800.
• Letter writing.
• Riddles--Early works to 1800.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
• Gentry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
• Gentry.
• Riddles.
• Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages, 175 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 345 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 128 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Other Title:

• Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing.
• Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for N: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• I.C. = John Cotgrave.
• With an engraved undated title page on verso of leaf before title page, with imprint "Brookes" that reads: Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus.
• With a vertical half-title on the leaf following pages 345. Variant: this leaf is blank.
• The words "The art of reasoning .. and other verses" are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "Cyprian goddess .. letters by cyphers".
• Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 7".
• Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and in the Bodleian Library (Early English books, 1641-1700).
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 185:E1448[1]) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

• Wing (2nd edition, 1994) C6370.
• Thomason E.1448[1].

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.