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Record Nr.

UNISA996389367403316

Autore

Phillips Edward <1630-1696?>

Titolo

The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner [[electronic resource] ] : in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1699

Descrizione fisica

[22], 318, 70, 12 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill

Soggetti

Courtship - England

Logic

Epithets

Letter writing

English language - Rhyme

Questions and answers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Attributed to Edward Phillips. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).

Imperfect: pages torn with some loss of print.

Reproduction of original in: British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018