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Record Nr.

UNISA996390090603316

Autore

Philomusus <fl. 1640.>

Titolo

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 forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A worke perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inriched by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by M. Bell, for Hum. Mosely, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-yard, 1646

Edizione

[The seventh edition, with two tables; the one expounding the most hard English words, the other resolving the most delightfull fictions of the heathen poets. With the addition of a new schoole of lore, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices.]

Descrizione fisica

[16], 248, 219-290 p

Soggetti

Courtship

Love poetry, English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?.

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.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014