A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters.

Folger bibliographic ID: 144256
ESTC number: R218198
Wing number: E25B
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 205413

Edition

The seventeenth edition

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

Often attributed to William Basse or Edward Pond; this attribution, however, is doubtful. Also attributed to Edward Phillips; this attribution is impossible as Phillips born after the first edition "The country-man's counsellor" has caption title on p. 127, and "Sphinx and Oedipus" has caption title on p. 174; register and pagination are continuous Page 243 is misnumbered 229; text is continuous despite pagination Signatures: A-K¹² L⁶ Signatures from DFo

Uniform title: Helpe to discourse
Extended title: A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters. : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toys, &c. are added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c
Alternate titles: Sphinx and Oedipus, Country-man's councellor, More merriment mixt with serious matters

Epigrams Anecdotes Cooking

attributed name: Basse, William, -approximately 1653
attributed name: Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
attributed name: Pond, Edward, -1629