Recreation for ingenious head-pieces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in : of epigrams, 700, epitaphs, 200, fancies, a number, fantasticks, abundance : with their addition, multiplication and division
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Type of record: Book
Title: Recreation for ingenious head-pieces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in : of epigrams, 700, epitaphs, 200, fancies, a number, fantasticks, abundance : with their addition, multiplication and division
Other titles: Wit's recreations; Witt's recreations
Classmark: BC Lt d/MEN
Additional creator(s): Mennes, Sir John (1599-1671) (Other); Smith, James (1605-1667) (Other)
Related people: Mennes, John; Smith, James
Publisher: Printed by S. Simmons, and are to sold by Thomas Helder
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1667
Language: English
Size and medium: [430] p., [1] leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/271004
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018013689705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Signatures: A-2D.
Added t.p., engraved by William Marshall: Witt's recreations refined & augmented with ingenious conceites for the wittie and merrie medicines for the melancholie. See the next page. Printed by M. Symmons and S. Symmons, 1663.
Editions of 1640 and 1641 appeared under title: Wits recreations.
Has been ascribed to Sir John Mennes and James Smith, but includes the work of others.
Wing M1717.
Additional description
Thorn-Drury copy (pencil note of sale on flyleaf), and his ownership mark (?) in ink following imprint of printed title page. Book label of Lawrence Strangman pasted inside front cover
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