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Musa proterva : love poems of the Restoration
Bullen, A H (1857-1920)
1889
From title page verso: "Seven hundred and eighty copies printed for England and America, each numbered as issued, and type distributed.
Speculum amantis : love-poems from rare song-books and miscellanies of the seventeenth century
Bullen, A H (1857-1920)
1889
Five hundred copies only printed, each numbered as issued.
Delectable demaundes, and pleasant questions, with their severall answers, in matters of love: naturall causes, with morall and politicke devises. Translated out of French into English
Landi, Ortensio (1512-1553); Painter, William (1540?-1594); Chartier, Alain (1385-1433)
1596
"Based on the 1st 3 bks. of O[rtensio]. Landi's Quattro libri di dubbi, Vinegia, 1556, prob. through the French trans[lation]. Questions diuerses, Lyon, 1558"--STC. Translated by William Painter. ...
Wits interpreter : the English Parnassus, or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects, viz.... : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities, all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises
Cotgrave, John (fl. 1655)
1671
Signatures: A⁸, C-2L⁸, 2M⁴. Additional engraved title-page. Several pages misnumbered. Contents: 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements -- 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experimen...
Euphues, the anatomy of wit : Very pleasant for all gentlemen to reade, and most necessary to remember. Wherein are contained the delights that wit followeth in his youth, by the pleasantnesse of love: and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnesse of wisdome
Lyly, John (1554?-1606); Lyly, John (1554?-1606)
[1623]
Signatures: A-Aa⁸. "Euphues and his England", originally published separately, has separate title page dated 1623; register is continuous.
The famous history of Montelion, knight of the Oracle, son to the true mirrour of princes, the most renowned Persicles, king of Assyria : shewing his strange birth, unfortunate love, perilous adventures in arms, and how he came to the knowledge of his royal parents. Interlaced with variety of pleasant and delightful discourse
Ford, Emanuel
[1663?]
"Licens'd and enter'd according to order." Title within ornamental border. Numerous errors in paging. "To the readers, health" signed: Emanuel Foord.