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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

Level: Item

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

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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.

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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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