A new academy of compliments: or, The lover's secretary: : being wit and mirth improved, by the most elegant expressions used in the art of courtship, in divers examples of writing or inditing letters, relating either to love or business. Also the silent language; or, a compleat rule for discoursing by motion of the hands, without being understood by the company. Together with instructions for writing figure-hand, bills of exchange, receipts, casting accompts, &c. The signification of moles, and the interpretation of dreams. A never-failing method for women to get good husbands. Likewise a pleasant dialogue between six merry gossips, paying a visit to a lying-in woman. To which is added, a choice collection of above one hundred and twenty love songs, merry catches, and jovial healths, being the newest now extant; with plain instructions for dancing..
London: : Printed for C. Hitch, and S. Crowder, in Pater-noster-row; and J. Fuller, at the Bible and Dove, in Ave-Maria-Lane.,
[1754?]
Licensed according to order.--above imprint.
Frontispiece illustration.
A different imprint from the fourteenth edition at ESTC T177805
Signatures: A-N⁶
ESTC
Etiquette
Courtship
Love-letters
Letter writing
England London.