Two groatsworth of wit for a penny. Or The English Fortune-teller; Discovering to wives, widows, maids and batchelors, their good or bad fortune by the moles in the face, and the lines of the hand and by dreams. As whether a man shall be rich or poor? whether [sic] he shal live long or not? Whether he shall ever marry? and [sic] how many wives, or husbands, a man or woman shall have? Also what sickness or infirmities attend any one? and likewise what losses and crosses are likely to befal any person: and lastly, whether a man or woman shall dye a natural, or untimel death. And furthermore, here is a most rare, excellent, and delightfull discourse of nature of moles: as by the moles of the face or hand, to discover the moles that are hid fromour sight, with a judgement on them, as they foreshew riches or poverty. Happiness or misery, being in any part of the body. Into which now is added, a most choice discourse of interpretation of dreams, after a more exact way discovered than formerly. Pu

People / Organizations

• Joshua Conyers ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for J[oshua]. Conyers at the Black Raven over against Ely-House in Holbourn, [ca. 1675

Added name

Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-approximately 1687, attributed name.; Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675, attributed name.

Publication year

1680

ESTC No.

R185820

Grub Street ID

74743

Description

16 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 8°.

Note

A chapbook

Publisher's name from Wing (CD-ROM edition); date of publication from the Bodleian Catalog

Signatures: A]8

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) has 'Coniers' in imprint.