A New Academy of Complements or The Lover's Secretary: Being Wit and Mirth. Art of Courtship.

Woodcut frontis; + Title page + Advert + pp. [2] preface + pp. [2] Contents + pp. 148 text; page 65/66 and page 98/99 missing. pages 113 to 118 and pages 131 to 136 missing. unstable pagination throughout. An early/ original crude cloth binding, The work deals with instructions for dancing, 120 love songs, merry-catches, merry gossips, silent languages: or, a complete rule for discoursing by motion of the head. writing finger hand and the signification of moles etc. -An antidote against melancholy-. Only two other recorder copies of this edition. Oxford University and Illinois. Very rare.