Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation
Subtitle: obtain'd by general conversation, and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation
By: Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue ...
Publisher: Printed by W.D. and are to be sold at the sign of the ship in St. Mary Axe, and by most Booksellers
Published: 1675
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Rogues and vagabonds; Swindlers and swindling; Quacks and quackery; Medical astrology; Pharmacists; Tricksters
Notes: "The author's epistle" signed: R.H. [i.e. Richard Head]. Cf. BM.

Includes poem: "On Tunbridge-Wells."--Pp. 124-9.

Describes various characters, including an astrological quack and an apothecary.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), H1272

Murphy, G.A bibliography of English character-books, pp. 147-8