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Author Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
Title The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner : in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
Alternative Title Modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing
Publication Info London : Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1699.



Descript [22], 318, 70, 12 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill.
Note Attributed to Edward Phillips. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).
Imperfect: pages torn with some loss of print.
Reproduction of original in: British Library.
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Author Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing
Descript [22], 318, 70, 12 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill.
Note Attributed to Edward Phillips. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).
Imperfect: pages torn with some loss of print.
Reproduction of original in: British Library.
Author Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing

Subject Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [22], 318, 70, 12 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill.
Note Attributed to Edward Phillips. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).
Imperfect: pages torn with some loss of print.
Reproduction of original in: British Library.

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