The academy of complements
Subtitle: Wherein, ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complementall amorous high expressions, and formes of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion. A work perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inlarged, 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
Contributors: J. G. fl. 1640, attributed name; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver
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
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2500:3
Publisher: printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1650
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Courtesy -- Early works to 1800; Etiquette -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: "The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?

With additional engraved title page (plate) signed: W. Marshall sculpsit 1650

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) G1402

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2500:3).