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Author Cotgrave, John, active 1655.
Title 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: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical 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. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Alternative Title Witts interpreter or the new Parnassus
Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing
Publication Info London : printed for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, and [sic], MDCLXXI. [1671]
Edition 3d edition with many new additions.


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Descript [14], 520 p.
Edition 3d edition with many new additions.
Note J.C. = John Cotgrave.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... of beauty." are gathered by a right brace on title page; the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... by cyphers." are gathered by a left brace.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Author Cotgrave, John, active 1655.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Courtship -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
Riddles -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Games -- Early works to 1800.
Gentry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Witts interpreter or the new Parnassus
Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing
Descript [14], 520 p.
Edition 3d edition with many new additions.
Note J.C. = John Cotgrave.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... of beauty." are gathered by a right brace on title page; the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... by cyphers." are gathered by a left brace.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library.
Author Cotgrave, John, active 1655.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Courtship -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
Riddles -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Games -- Early works to 1800.
Gentry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Witts interpreter or the new Parnassus
Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus
Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing

Subject Courtship -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
Riddles -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Games -- Early works to 1800.
Gentry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [14], 520 p.
Note J.C. = John Cotgrave.
Partly in verse.
The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... of beauty." are gathered by a right brace on title page; the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... by cyphers." are gathered by a left brace.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2477 lacks all after page 351.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library; Folger Shakespeare Library.
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