The triumph of wit: or, ingenuity display'd in its perfection; being the newest and most useful academy. In three parts. Part I. Containing variety of Excellent Poems, Pastorals, Satyrs, Dialogues, Epigrams, Anagrams, Acrostick, Choice Letters, with their Answers, Epitaphs, Posies, Titles of Honour, and Directions, Complimental Expressions and Addresses: Also Directions relating to Love and Business, and the Newest Best, and Exactest Collection of Choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole Art and Mystery of love, in all its nicest Intrigues and curious Particulars, promising wonderful Success, as well in a happy Choice, as in the great Affair of Courtship to either Sex; with the Description and Anatomy of Perfect Beauty. Part III. Containing the Mystery and Art of Canting, with the Original and present Management thereof, and the End to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with Poems, Songs, and various Intrigues, in the Canting Language, with the Explanation, &c
- J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702.
- Date:
- 1724
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Publication/Creation
London : printed by A. W. for J. Clark, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, 1724.
Physical description
158[i.e.168]p.,plates ; 120.
Contributors
Edition
The eighth edition.
References note
ESTC T51759
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.