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The academy of complements [electronic resource] : Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and stra...

The academy of complements [electronic resource] : Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and stra...

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The academy of complements [electronic resource] : Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and formes of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of many witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new schoole of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices.

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The academy of complements [electronic resource] : Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and formes of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of many witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new schoole of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices.

Publisher

London : printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1650.

Date

1650.

Record Identifier

74Vvm4EbMVLX

MMS ID

991006658729702626

Language

English

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Physical content

[16], 344 p., [1] leaf of plates.

Publication information

Publisher

London : printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1650.

Edition

The last edition, with two tables; the one expounding the most hard English words, the other resolving the most delightfull fictions of the heathen poets.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1650.

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Full title

The academy of complements [electronic resource] : Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and formes of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inlarged, and in...

Notes

General note

"The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?.

With additional engraved title page (plate) signed: W. Marshall sculpsit 1650.

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Citation / References Note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) G1402.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2500:3)

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74Vvm4EbMVLX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvm4EbMVLX

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MMS ID

991006658729702626