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
Subtitle: 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 ...
By: by I.C.
Edition: 3d edition with many new additions.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 683:19
Publisher: Printed for N. Brook ...
Published: 1671
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: microform :
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Courtship; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Wits interpreter.; Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.; Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry.; English Parnassus.
Notes: Attributed to John Cotgrave. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).

Added t.p., engraved has title: Witts interpreter, or, The new Parnassus.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Wing C6372

Arber's Term cat. I 61