Or, A
Pleasant
Grove for their Wits to walke in.
Robert Herrick
"
In this, and subsequent editions, Marshall's title-page is re-engraved
and the Outlandish Proverbs are omitted. The printed title-page reads:
"Wit's Recreations. Containing 630 Epigrams, 160 Epitaphs. Variety of
Fancies and Fantasticks, Good for Melancholly humours. _London. Printed
by Thomas Cotes_," etc. The epigrams vary considerably from the
selection in the previous edition.
III. "Witts Recreations refined. Augmented, with Ingenious Conceites
for the wittie, and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholie. . . . "
In the Museum copy of this edition the imprint to the engraved title has
been cropped away. The printed title-page reads: "Recreation for
Ingenious Head-peeces.
Or, A Pleasant Grove for their Wits to walke in.
Of Epigrams, 630: Epitaphs, 180: Fancies, a number: Fantasticks,
abundance, Good for melancholy Humors. _Printed by R. Cotes for H. B.
London, 1645. _ 8vo. " Two poems of Herrick's occur in the additional
"Fancies and Fantasticks," first printed in this edition, viz. : _The
Description of a Woman_ (not contained in _Hesperides_), and the
_Farewell to Sack_.
IV. "Witts Recreations refined. Augmented, with Ingenious Conceites
for the wittie and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholie. _Printed by
M. S. sould by I. Hancock in Popes head Alley, 1650.
In this, and subsequent editions, Marshall's title-page is re-engraved
and the Outlandish Proverbs are omitted. The printed title-page reads:
"Wit's Recreations. Containing 630 Epigrams, 160 Epitaphs. Variety of
Fancies and Fantasticks, Good for Melancholly humours. _London. Printed
by Thomas Cotes_," etc. The epigrams vary considerably from the
selection in the previous edition.
III. "Witts Recreations refined. Augmented, with Ingenious Conceites
for the wittie, and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholie. . . . "
In the Museum copy of this edition the imprint to the engraved title has
been cropped away. The printed title-page reads: "Recreation for
Ingenious Head-peeces.
Or, A Pleasant Grove for their Wits to walke in.
Of Epigrams, 630: Epitaphs, 180: Fancies, a number: Fantasticks,
abundance, Good for melancholy Humors. _Printed by R. Cotes for H. B.
London, 1645. _ 8vo. " Two poems of Herrick's occur in the additional
"Fancies and Fantasticks," first printed in this edition, viz. : _The
Description of a Woman_ (not contained in _Hesperides_), and the
_Farewell to Sack_.
IV. "Witts Recreations refined. Augmented, with Ingenious Conceites
for the wittie and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholie. _Printed by
M. S. sould by I. Hancock in Popes head Alley, 1650.
