A new academy: or, The accomplish'd secretary. Containing instructions to write epistles; with many curious examples of letters, and answers, suited to love, business, friendship, and other matters, in a most elegant stile. Directions for true pointing, or stopping, in writing superscriptions of letters sutable [sic] to persons of all qualities and degrees, inscriptions, subscriptions, &c. The art and mystery of making love, and proving successful in it. Quaint dialogues, in verse, and prose. Rules for gentiel and accomplish'd breeding, behaviour, &c. Select poems on sundry occasions; complemental expressions, serious and jocose, relating to either sex; acrosticks, enigma's [sic], odes, epigrams, satyrs, and other rare devices. To which are added many excellent new songs, as they have lately been sung, and are now greatly in request at court, balls, both theatres musical consorts of entertainments

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  • A new academy: or, The accomplish'd secretary. Containing instructions to write epistles; with many curious examples of letters, and answers, suited to love, business, friendship, and other matters, in a most elegant stile. Directions for true pointing, or stopping, in writing superscriptions of letters sutable [sic] to persons of all qualities and degrees, inscriptions, subscriptions, &c. The art and mystery of making love, and proving successful in it. Quaint dialogues, in verse, and prose. Rules for gentiel and accomplish'd breeding, behaviour, &c. Select poems on sundry occasions; complemental expressions, serious and jocose, relating to either sex; acrosticks, enigma's [sic], odes, epigrams, satyrs, and other rare devices. To which are added many excellent new songs, as they have lately been sung, and are now greatly in request at court, balls, both theatres musical consorts of entertainments
  • Wit and eloquence: or the accomplish'd secretary's vade mecvm
  • Wit and elequence; or the secretary's Vade Mecum; Wit & eloquence or the Secretary's Vade mecum
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Imprint
London : printed for Roger Clavill, and sold by T[homas]. Leigh and D[aniel]. Midwinter at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1699. Second edition; ..
Added name
Faithorne, William, 1656-1701?, engraver.
Publication year
1699
ESTC No.
R180873
Grub Street ID
71728
Description
[4], 188 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 12°.
Note
Originally published, in 1697, as: Wit and eloquence: or the accomplish'd secretary's vade mecvm

Preface signed: E.S

With an additional title page (plate), engraved and signed: Wit & eloquence or the Secretary's Vade mecum. ... W: Faithorne S[culp]

Publishers' names from Wing (CD-ROM edition)

Running title: Wit and elequence; or the secretary's Vade Mecum

Signatures: A-H]1]2.