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

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

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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 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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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 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.

Publisher

London : printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1664.

Alternative title

Academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence.

Date

1664.

Record Identifier

74Vvq0e473zX

MMS ID

991006349519702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

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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Access Conditions

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

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Alternative Titles

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 enlarged, and inri...

Notes

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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Record Identifier

74Vvq0e473zX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvq0e473zX

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MMS ID

991006349519702626