Wits interpreter, the English Parnassvs, 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, drolleries and other verses, 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty, 5. The muses elizium, several poetical fictions, 6. The perfect inditer, letters ala mode, 7. Cardinal Richelieu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers, 8. Games and sports now used at this day among the gentry of England, &c. : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities ... /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cotgrave, John, active 1655
Format: Microform Book
Language:English
Edition:3d edition with many new additions.
Series:Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 683:19.
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Description
Item Description:Attributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd edition).
Added title page, engraved has title: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Microform.
Physical Description:15 unnumbered pages, 520 pages