A new academy of compliments: or, The lover's secretary: being wit and mirth improved, by the most elegant expressions used in the art of courtship, in divers examples of writing or inditing letters, relating either to love or business. Also the silent language; or, a compleat rule for discoursing by motion of the hands, without being understood by the company. Together with instructions for writing figure-hand, bills of exchange, receipts, casting accompts, &c. The signification of moles, and the interpretation of dreams. A never-failing method for women to get good husbands. Likewise a pleasant dialogue between six merry gossips, paying a visit to a lying-in woman. To which is added, a choice collection of above one hundred and twenty love songs, merry catches, and jovial healths, being the newest now extant; with plain instructions for dancing. The fourteenth edition, with additions. Licensed according to order

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  • A new academy of compliments: or, The lover's secretary: being wit and mirth improved, by the most elegant expressions used in the art of courtship, in divers examples of writing or inditing letters, relating either to love or business. Also the silent language; or, a compleat rule for discoursing by motion of the hands, without being understood by the company. Together with instructions for writing figure-hand, bills of exchange, receipts, casting accompts, &c. The signification of moles, and the interpretation of dreams. A never-failing method for women to get good husbands. Likewise a pleasant dialogue between six merry gossips, paying a visit to a lying-in woman. To which is added, a choice collection of above one hundred and twenty love songs, merry catches, and jovial healths, being the newest now extant; with plain instructions for dancing. The fourteenth edition, with additions. Licensed according to order
  • New academy of complements; Lover's secretary
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for C. Hitch, and S. Crowder, in Pater-noster-row; and J. Fuller, at the Bible and Dove, in Ave-Maria-Lane, [1754?]
Added name
Fuller, John, active 1748-1796, bookseller.; Hitch, Charles, -1764, bookseller.; Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller.
Publication year
1754
ESTC No.
N510516
Grub Street ID
436808
Description
[8], 148 p. : ill. ; 12°.
Note
First published in 1669 as 'A new academy of complements'

bb Another "fourteenth edition" was published in 1754

Signatures: A-N]6.