The academy of complements. Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactl perfected, every where corrected and enlarged, 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.

People / Organizations

• J. G. (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1658.

Publication year

1658-1658

ESTC No.

R228377

Grub Street ID

101062

Description

[24], 344 p. ; 12⁰

Note

Some editions have author's preface signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), G1404