Author:Richard Head

Richard Head
(1637 – c. 1686)

Richard Head

Works

• Hic et Ubique, or the Humours of Dublin (1663)
• The English Rogue, described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant, being a compleat history of the most Eminent Cheats of both Sexes (1665)
• The Red Sea, a Description of the Sea-fight between the English and Dutch, with an Elegy on Sir C. Minnes (1666)
• Al-man-sir, or Rhodomontados of the most Horrible, Terrible, and Invincible Captain, Sir Frederic Fightall (1672)
• The Floating Island, or a New Discovery, relating the strange Adventure on a late Voyage from Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ramallia to the eastward of Terra del Templo … by Francis Careless, one of the Discoverers (1673)
• News from the Stars by Meriton Latroon (1673)
• Canting Academy, or the Devil's Cabinet opened. Wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous Practices of that wicked crew commonly known by the name of Hectors, Trapanners, Gilts, etc., to which is added a compleat Canting Dictionary … with several new Catches, Songs, etc. (1673)
• Western Wonder, or O, Brazile, an Inchanted Island discovered, with a Description of a place called Montecapernia (1674)
• Jackson's Recantation, or the Life and Death of the notorious Highwayman now hanging in chains at Hampstead (1674)
• Proteus Redivivus, or the Art of Wheedling or Insinuation (1675)
• The Miss Display'd, with all her Wheedling Arts and Circumventions (1675)
• Life and Death of Mother Shipton (1677)
• Madam Wheedle, or the Fashionable Miss Discovered (1678)
• Nugæ Venales, or a Complaisant Companion, being new Jests, domestick and foreign, Bulls, Rhodomontados, pleasant Novels, and Miscellanies (1686)

Works about Head

• "Richard Head," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 68), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Head, Richard," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Head (Richard)," in A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Robert Plomer, London: Bibliographical Society (1907)