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Ref NoEFP/094/1684/65
Finding NumberA094/1684/65
TitleThe new help to discourse: or, Wit, mirth and jollity, intermixt with more serious matters : Consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, proverbs, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. with several other varieties intermixt: together with the country-mans guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain & easie method than any yet extant. By W.W. Gent
LevelItem
Date1684
DescriptionNew help to discourse; Wit, mirth and jollity, intermixt with more serious matters
W.W. = William Winstanley.; Printer's name from Wing CD.; A variant issue has the 'n' of 'any' in 'than any yet extant' printed upside-down.; Variant; soiled; MS. ink annotation on back end-paper; 801292.; Wit, mirth and jollity, intermixt with more serious matters.; Microfilm.; R24577.
The third edition, with many new additions.
AuthorWinstanley, William, 1628?-1698
SubjectCommonplace-books
Physical Description[4], 344 p. ; 12j.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLondon : printed by H[enry]. C[lark]. and sold by P. Parker at the Leg and Star in Cornhil, 1684.
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