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, exactly 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.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Philomusus, active 1640.

Contributor:

J. G. (John Gough), active 1640, attributed name.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2444:8.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courtesy--Early works to 1800.

Courtesy.

Etiquette--Early works to 1800.

Etiquette.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 344 pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

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

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Some editions have author's preface signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?.

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1997. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2444:8). s1997 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) G1404

OCLC:

84789880