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Record Nr.

UNISA996396561503316

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 formes 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 T. Badger, for H. Mosley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-yard, 1645

Edizione

[The sixt edition, with two tables, the one expounding the most hard English words, the other resolving the most delightfull fictions of the heathen poets.]

Descrizione fisica

[22], 290 p. : ill

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?.

With an added engraved title page.

Caption title on p. 1 reads: The academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence.

Partly in verse.

Imperfect; H10 (pp. 165-166) lacking; some leaves torn, affecting page numbers.

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062