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 worke perused, exactly perfected, every where corrected and inriched, by the author, with additions of witty poems, and pleasant songs
Contributors: J. G. fl. 1640, attributed name
Edition: The sixt 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 -- 1987:3
Publisher: printed by T. Badger, for H. Mosley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1645
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 290
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; 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

Imperfect; H10 (pp. 165-166) lacking; some leaves torn, affecting page numbers

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library

Wing (2nd ed.) G1401A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1990. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1987:3).