The academy of complements [electronic resource] : Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and stran...
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 enlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new school of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices.
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London : printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1664.
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Date
1664.
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English
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Physical content
[16], 344 p., [1] leaf of plates.
Publication information
Publisher
London : printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1664.
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
1664.
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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 enlarged, and inri...
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General note
"The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?.
With an added engraved title page.
Caption title on p. 1 reads: The academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence.
Partly in verse.
Reproduction of the original at the Bodleian Library.
Citation / References Note
Wing (2nd ed.) G1405A.
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 ; 1832:05)
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74Vvq0e473zX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvq0e473zX
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991006349519702626