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The academy of complements. : VVherin ladyes gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers may accommodate their courtly practice with most curious ceremonies, complementall, amorous, high expressions, and formes of speaking, or writing. A worke perused and most exactly perfected and most exactly perfected by the author with additions of witty amorous poems. And a table expounding the hard English words

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1640.
Call number: 646967
Creator: J. G (active 1640)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Arthur Freeman Rare Books and Manuscripts, February 2018. Bookplate: Porkington Library.
Dimensions: 16 cm (12mo)
Associated people: Marshall, William, (active 1617-1650,); Badger, Thomas, (active 1639-1646,); Moseley, Humphrey, (-1661,)
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