J. G. The academy of complements. : 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

Folger bibliographic ID: 139658
ESTC number: R202239
Wing number: G1402
Folger call number: G1402
Folger holdings ID: 141546

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

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

"The authors preface to the reader" signed: Philomusus, i.e. John Gough? With additional engraved title page (plate) signed: W. Marshall sculpsit 1650

Item information about Folger G1402

cs1407. Marbled endpapers. Manuscript notes. E6 mutilated, affecting text

Extended title: The academy of complements. : 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

Courtesy Etiquette

author: J. G. (John Gough), active 1640
printmaker: Marshall, William, active 1617-1650