Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation : 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 / Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.
- Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
- Date:
- 1675
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by W.D. and are to be sold at the sign of the ship in St. Mary Axe, and by most booksellers, 1675.
Physical description
16 unnumbered pages, 352 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Contributors
References note
ESTC R13684
Wing (2nd ed.), H1272
Murphy, G. A bibliography of English character-books, pp. 147-8.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), H1272
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.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: E.M. Lawson. Note: Binding: Modern 17th-cent. style full calf, gilt spine title "Head's Art of wheedling."
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/59458