Courtesy Manual.- [Buckhurst (Lord), Sir Charles Sedley, Sir William Davenant & others.] A New Academy of Complements: or, The Lover's Secretary. Being Wit and Mirth improv'd by the most elegant Expressions us'd in the Art of Courtship..., sixth edition, with double-page woodcut plate of alphabet of sign language, lacking A1 & G12 (?first and last blanks), also lacking G4 and part of E6 (lower half of leaf torn away), old ink inscription "Nicholas Allen's Book 1759" along inner margin of title and others on inside covers, soiled, plate defective at lower margin and loose, a few head-lines shaved, worming towards end causing slight loss, contemporary limp calf, crude stitching to spine, worn and defective, 12mo, for S.Bates...and A.Bettesworth, 1719; sold not subject to return

⁂ Unrecorded on ESTC. The Academy of Complements was first published in 1640 and The New Academy of Complements in 1669. Although there were many editions of each published copies are uncommon. WorldCat lists only one copy of this edition, at Harvard.