The Academy of complements
Subtitle: wherein ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental amorous high expressions, and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion
By: 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 school of love, and a present of excellent similitudes, comparisons, fancies, and devices.
Contributors: Gough, John, fl. 1528-1556.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650
Edition: The ninth edition, with two tables, the one expounding the most hard English words, the other resolving the most delightful fictions of the heathen poets.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1655:3.
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Mosely ...
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Courtship -- England -- 17th century.; Love poetry, English -- 17th century.
Notes: Sometimes attributed to John Gough.

Contains added illustrated t.p., signed: W. Marshall, sculpsit. 1648.

Includes index.

Imperfect: p. 57-80 and 211-214 lacking; best copy available for photographing.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois Library.

Wing G1401C

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1655:3)