City and country recreation : or, wit and merriment rightly calculated, for the pleasure and advantage of either sex. In two parts. Part I. Containing the Pleasures of Courtship and Address; or, The whole Art of making Love. Directions for making a suitable Choice. A Description of true Love in all its Changes. How to express Love's silent Language. To know if a Party be in Love. Instructions for Courting a Maid or Widow: and how the Female Sex may make Love known, without any Injury to a modest and vertuous Behaviour; and how to dive into the secret Thoughts of their Lovers. The Comforts of Marriage in all its Circumstances; and how a good Wife may Reclaim a bad Husband, and the like of a Husband by a Wife. The whole Art of Fortune-Telling, shewing what Good or Bad Fortune is assigned you in Affairs of Love, Business, &c. A Collection of Choice Poems, by the most Celebrated Wits of the Age. Part II. Containing all the cunning Intreagues of the Beaus, Sharpers, Bullies, and Female-Decoys, to Deceive and Ruin Gentlemen, Tradesmen, &c. With their lively Characters, and a plain Discription of their several Practices, to prevent their future Designs. The Town Miss; or, London Jilt, in all her Humours, Shifts, and Intreagues; set forth, as a Looking-Glass, for the unthinking Beaus; Keeping Squires, Foolish Tradesmen, and others, to see their Folly in. To which is added, the misery of gaming: Or, The Art of keeping Ready Money in One's Pocket at all Times: With other useful Matters, never before made Publick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

J. S.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English wit and humor--Early works to 1800.

English wit and humor.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,184 pages : illustrations ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed by W. O. for P. Parker, at the Leg and Star in Cornhill, 1705.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Preface signed: J. S.

With a frontispiece.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T120504.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.