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 enlarged, and inriched by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs. With an addition of a new school of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices
Contributors: J. G. fl. 1640, attributed name
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 -- 1832:5
Publisher: printed for A. Mosely, at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1664
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Courtship -- Early works to 1800; Love poetry, English -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Academy of complements. Or Pearles of eloquence
Notes: "The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?

With an added engraved title page

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

Wing (2nd ed.) G1405A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1832:05).