 | William Pitt - 1817
...Wood-cut Vignette, and to each is prefixed a short Notice. A Glossary to the whole is added. 21. WITS RECREATIONS, selected from the finest Fancies of modern...With a Thousand Outlandish Proverbs. Printed from Edition 1640, with all the Wood-Engravings and Improvements of subsequent Editions. And WIT RESTOR'D,... | |
 | Association réformiste - 1835
...but at the same time make us willing to dispense with that want." — LAMB'S Letters. 1287 WITTS'S Recreations, selected from the finest Fancies of Modern Muses, with a Thousand Outlandish Proverbs, beautiful frontispiece by Marshall, with the explanation, 12mo. calf extra, gilt leaves, 21 12s 6¿/... | |
 | Jacques-Charles Brunet - Book collecting - 1843
...des exemplaires en Gr. Pan. pet. In-fol. Vend. 27 fr. Thierry; 3l fr. Klaproth. MENNIS (John). Wit's recreations, selected from the finest fancies of modern muses, with a thousand outlandish proverbs, from the edit, of 16 До; Wit's restored, from the edition of 1 656; and Musarum delicias , or the... | |
 | JOHN BOHN, 17, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN - 1843
...not formerly publish't, 16.58 ; also Wit's Recreations, selected from the finest fancies of moderne Muses, with a thousand outlandish Proverbs. Printed from the Edition of 1640, with all the wood engravings and improvements of subsequent Editions : to which arc now added Memoirs of... | |
 | John Bohn - 1843
...not formerly publish'!, 1658 ; also Wit's Recreations, selected from the finest fancies of modernc Muses, with a thousand outlandish Proverbs. Printed from the Edition of 1640, with all the wood engravings and improvements of subsequent Editions : to which are now added Memoirs of... | |
 | Simeon Henry Remsen - Art - 1883
...JAS. S[MITH], 1656;—WIT RESTORED, in severall Select Poems, not formerly publish't, 1658; —WITS RECREATIONS, selected from the finest Fancies of Modern Muses, with a Thousand Out-land'sh Proverbs, 1640 ; with Memoirs, Notes and Indexes. Portrait, plates and curious woodcuts.... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - English literature - 1896 - 492 pages
...22, 1667 ; he was buried in the chancel of King's-Nympton Church. His works were as follows : ' Wit's Recreations, selected from the finest fancies of modern muses, with a thousand outlandish proverbs, 1640, to which are annexed memoirs of Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. Reprinted with all the wood... | |
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Recreation. Containing several! pieces of poetique wit. By Sir JM and and Ja. S., 1656. And wit restor'd in severall select poems (not Formerly publish't), 1658. Wits recreations, selected from the finest fancies of modern muses with a thousand outlandish... 