The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courtship--England--Early works to 1800.

Courtship.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Epithets--Early works to 1800.

Epithets.

Letter writing--Early works to 1800.

Letter writing.

English language--Rhyme--Early works to 1800.

English language.

Questions and answers--Early works to 1800.

Questions and answers.

English language--Rhyme.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (22 unnumbered pages, 318, 70, 12 pages, 1 leaf of plates) : illustrations

Other Title:

Modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Notes:

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

Imperfect: pages torn with some loss of printing.

Reproduction of original in: British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2854:35) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) P2064

OCLC:

62369598

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.