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The new academy of complements : erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, soldiers, citizens, countrymen, and all persons of what degree soever, of both sexes : stored with variety of courtly and civil complements, eloquent letters of love and friendship: with an exact collection of the newest and choicest songs alamode, both amorous and jovial

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Title: The new academy of complements : erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, soldiers, citizens, countrymen, and all persons of what degree soever, of both sexes : stored with variety of courtly and civil complements, eloquent letters of love and friendship: with an exact collection of the newest and choicest songs alamode, both amorous and jovial

Other titles: New academy of compliments

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Classmark: BC Lt d SAC

Additional creator(s): Dorset, Charles Sackville Earl of (1638?-1706) (Other); D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668) (Other); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701) (Other)

Publisher: Printed for John Churchill

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1713

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 2 unnumbered pages, 318 pages, 14 unnumbered pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/271766

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018121699705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Wih engraved frontispiece title, not countedin signatures, facing printed title page.


Booklist of J. Churchill, [1] p. at end.


Compiled by Charles Sackville, then Lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of Dorset, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir William Davenant and others.


First published 1669.


Indexed in: Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies 148(b), with the three mispagings which occur in some copies (119 for 109, 68 for 168, 70 for 170), but with p. 128 correctly numbered. Mispagings not noted by Case (some due to faulty inking) are the following: 41 for 40, 40 for 41, 7 for 71, 52 for 152, 26 for 267. Other irregularities are as described by Case.

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Repaired wormhole affecting text on p. 73-94. Bookplate of Baron Fairfax of Cameron

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