The academy of complements. Wherin ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters. A work perused, exactly perfected, evety [sic] 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. The last edition, with two tables; the one expounding the most hard English words, the other resolving the most delighfull [sic] fictions of the heathen poets.
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London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1654.
- Publication year
- 1654-1654
- ESTC No.
- R177575
- Grub Street ID
- 69630
- Description
- [26], 344 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill (engraving) ; 12⁰
- Note
- Author's preface signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?
With an additional title page, engraved (A1v) and signed: W. Marshall sculpsit 1650.
Signatures: pi1 A?? a? B-P??.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), G1403Subject Courtship -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.
Love poetry, English -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.