The academy of complements [microform] : 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
- Author:
- Philomusus, active 1640
- Additional Titles:
- Academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence
- Published:
- 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.
- Edition:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 248, 219-290 pages
- Additional Creators:
- J. G. (John Gough), active 1640
- Access Online:
- wwwlib.umi.com
- Subject(s):
- Note:
- "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. - Other Forms:
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
- Reproduction Note:
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1832:04).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) G1401B
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