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• The royal academy of complements. Wherein is set forth, a new packet of letters erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, souldiers, citizens, country-men, and all persons of what degree soever of both sexes, viz: Complemental expressions towards men and women; leading to the art of courtship. 1. A tender of service to a King. 2. A tender of service to a Queen. 3. Respects from an honourable Lady to a Queen. 4. A fair young virgin to an old rich miser, whom her guardian did design should wed her. 5. A gentlemans request to his friend, to borrow money. 6. A gentleman to his friend, that sent to borrow money. 7. A virgin to her parents, that would have matched her to one whom she cannot love. 8. A courteous lass to her paramour, who had gotten her with child. 9. A husband to his lascivious wife. 10. A wife to her extravagant husband! 11. Civilities from one lady to another. 12. The forsaken maid, to her treacherous friend. 13. One ladies advice to another near marriage. 14. A gentleman to his lady, upon his urgent occasion to taking a journey. Composed by the most refin'd wits of this age. (London : printed for E. H. and are to be sold by Absalom Chamberlain, over against the Cap and Feather, in White Cross-street, next to Old-street: removed from Swan-alley, in St. John-street, [1687?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cupids schoole wherein yong men and mayds may learne divers sorts of new, witty, and amorous complements / newly written and never any written before in the same kinde. ([London] : Printed at London for Rich. Cotes, and are to be sold by Francis Grove ..., 1642), by W. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Helen (Macmillan and co., ltd.;, 1896), by Maria Edgeworth, A. A. Turbayne, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Christine M. Demain Hammond, and R. & R. Clark (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emma (Little, Brown, & Co., 1901), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma. (J. M. Dent, 1898), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drawing Rooms, Second Floor, and Attics: A Farce, in One Act (London: T. H. Lacy, ca. 1864), by John Maddison Morton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Slippers of Cinderella. (W. Heinemann, 1919), by W. Graham Robertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Loyal constancy; or, the seamans love-letter written by John Blay on board the Henry and Elizabeth riding at Leghorn, to his dear mistris Mary Foart, now living near Wapping, exhorting her to continue in her wonted love and constancy according to their mutual promises past between them, in order to their happy union and marriage, as soon as he shall return from this voyage to England. Tune of, Cloris full of harmless thoughts; Jenny Gin. The fair one let me in. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-ball, in West-smithfield, [1680?]), by John Blay and Mary Foart (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing. (London : Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1699), by Edward Phillips (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The farmers heir. Or, The countrey-man wooing his mistriss. To be sung with its own pleasant air. ([London? : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Love in a barn. Or, Right country courtship. ([London? : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Dialogue between honest John & loving Kate. (London : printed for J. Clarke W. Thackeray and T. Passinger, 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An excellent new song, much in request. Of a young maid that built castles in the air, and at last was forced to take a cobler to her fair. ([London? : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ayala's Angel (3 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The egoist : a comedy in narrative (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice. (Frank S. Holby, 1906), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride & prejudice (J.M. Dent, 1907), by Jane Austen and C. E. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice (Macmillan, 1901), by Jane Austen, C. E. Brock, and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1922), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice (J.M. Dent & Co.;, 1906), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pride and prejudice. (Frank S. Holby, 1906), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1922), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New academy of complements erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, souldiers, citizens, country-men, 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 à la mode, both amorous and jovial / compiled by the most refined wits of this age. (London : Printed for Samuel Speed ..., 1669), by Charles Sackville Dorset, Charles Sedley, and William D'Avenant (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Academy of complements, or, A new way of wooing wherein is variety of love-letters, very fit to be read of all young men and maids, that desire to learn the true way of complements. (London : Printed for Thomas Passinger ..., 1685), by J. G. fl. 1640 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Fascinating Womanhood, or, The Art of Attracting Men: A Practical Course of Lessons in the Underlying Principles By Which Women Attract Men, Leading to the Proposal and Culminating in Marriage (8 volumes; St. Louis: The Psychology Press, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• This Passion Called Love (Auburn, NY: Authors' Press, c1925), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Phlēng yāo khārom kao. (Rōngphim Thai, 1917), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of dating (Association Press, 1958), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The love letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 (New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901., 1901), by Dorothy Osborne, William Temple, Edward Abbott Parry, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling; its origin, progress and decline in America (Book collectors association, inc., 1934), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A man for every woman. (Macmillan, 1959), by Richard H. Klemer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress, and decline in America (Knickerbocker Pub. Co., 1871), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The other house (New Directions, 1924), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901), by Myrtle Reed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ratschläge für Junggesellen und Verlobte. (A. Langen, 1900), by Marcel Prévost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling prohibited! ... (A supplement to) Bundling; ... and more about bundling. (Aurand Press, 1929), by A. Monroe Aurand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fusser's book (Fox, Duffield & co., 1904), by Anna Archbald and Georgia Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Garland of love : a collection of posy-ring mottoes. (A.L. Humphreys, 1902), by Arthur Lee Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Squirrel inn. (The Century co., 1891), by Frank R. Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• How heroes of fiction propose and how heroines reply : together with familiar quotations in poetry and prose ; with parallel passages from the most famous writers of the world. (P. F. Collier Publisher, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral philosophy of courtship and marriage : designed as a companion to the "Physiology of marriage" / by William A. Alcott. (John P. Jewett & Company ;, 1859), by William A. Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Plague of London : together with, Religious courtship (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress and decline in America (Privately issued for subscribers only, 1871), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Olive Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meet your mate the modern way; a present-day practical solution to an age-old personal problem (The Christopher publishing house, 1940), by Elmer U. Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking toward marriage (Allyn and Bacon, 1943), by Roswell H. Johnson, Erma Errickson Pixley, and Helen Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lover's dictionary containing a vast amount of information of interest to those in love ... (Pearson, 1903), by G. R. M. Devereux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eustace diamonds. (Dodd, Mead, 1915), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flirts: silhouettes de jeunes filles étrangères. (P.-V. Stock, 1903), by A. Monnier-Wissocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice. (Frank S. Holby, 1906), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• How men propose: the fateful question and its answer. (A. C. McClurg and company, 1888), by Agnes Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress, and decline in America. (Knickerbocker Pub. Co., 1871), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alonzo and Melissa or The unfeeling father : an American tale (S. Andrus and Son, 1851), by Nathaniel Hill Wright, I. Mitchell, and Daniel Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Maraichinage, coutume du Pays de Mont (Vendée) (A. Maloine, 1906), by Marcel Baudouin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One thousand things worth knowing : a book disclosing invaluable information, receipts, and instruction in the useful and domestic arts, everything of which is of practical use to everybody. (Merone & Butcher, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patnubay ng̃ pagsinta : pantas na manga paraan at nang magtagumpay sa pag-ibig (Imprenta at Libreria ni J. Martinez, 1922), by Pascual H. Poblete (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amatory banquet (Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, No. 10, Newgate-Street, 1824), by Robert Cruikshank and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal valentine writer, for the current year (Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, No. 10, Newgate-Street, 1822), by Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson, Robert Cruikshank, and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Guide des amoureux et des gens du monde l'amour, la cour, le marriage... : avec un système complet de télé graphie amoureuse, le langage des fleurs et celui du mouchoir : et quelques remarques sur la timidité et le moyen de la faire passer. (C.O. Beauchemin, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposal and espousal (Bradley, Garretson, 1888), by Clergyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book (G.P. Putnam's, 1906), by Myrtle Reed, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• How men propose; the fateful question and its answer. Love scenes from popular works of fiction. (T.F. Unwin, 1890), by Agnes Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Myrtle Reed, Margaret Armstrong, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gai no hito (Kokumin Bunko Kankōkai, 1917), by George Meredith and Tokuboku Hirata (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With Frederick the Great; a story of the Seven Years' War. (Scribner, 1903), by G. A. Henty and Walter Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• The egoist; a comedy in narrative. (Scribner, 1902), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress, and decline in America. (Eugenics Publishing Company, 1912), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little colonial dame; a story of Old Manhattan Island (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1898), by Agnes Carolyn Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joyce Jackson's guide to dating. (Prentice-Hall, 1955), by Helen Louise Crouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Isabella and her gingham umbrella (G.D. Russell & Co., 1864), by Harry Clifton and Billy Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lone heart (Philadelphia, PA : W.R. Smith, [1865], 1865), by Eastburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joyce Jackson's guide to dating. (Prentice-Hall, 1957), by Joyce Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Looking toward marriage (Allyn and Bacon, 1948), by Roswell Hill Johnson, Erma Errickson Pixley, and Helen Randolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to find a husband after forty. (Allied Publications, 1962), by C. C. Cabot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clear thinking about courtship (Herald Press, 1952), by J. C. Wenger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duende (Barcelona : Imprenta de Juan Llorens, calle de la Palma de Sta. Catalina, 1876., 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous lovers of history (Harper, 1912), by Lyndon Orr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Washington Square (Boni, 1926), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The head-hunters of Christabel : a tale of adventure in the South Seas (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1903), by Alfred Penny, Harold Piffard, Richard Clay and Sons, E. & J.B. Young & Co, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain), and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The egoist : a comedy in narrative (Times Book Club, 1912), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pride and prejudice (J.M. Dent & Co.;, 1906), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• None but the lonely heart : Cupid in business : the story of lonely-heart clubs, marriage brokers, introduction bureaus, friendship services and correspondence clubs ; with original letters from members in all parts of the world (Readers Press, 1943), by Louis Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of Love-Making (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to Get Married, Although a Woman; or, The Art of Pleasing Men, by Irene W. Hartt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Seductio Ad Absurdum: The Principles & Practices of Seduction, A Beginner's Handbook, by Emily Hahn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Code galant, ou, Art de Conter fleurette (in French), by Horace Raisson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage: Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements, by G. R. M. Devereux (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Heart of the Rose, by Mabel Anne McKee (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spinster Book, by Myrtle Reed (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fireside games for winter evening amusement (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1859), by Wiljalba Frikell and Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at Florida)
• Round games for all parties (London: David Bogue, 1854), by David Bogue and Petter and Galpin (page images at Florida)
• The art of making love, or, Rules for the conduct of ladies and gallants in their amours (London : Printed by J. Cotterel for Richard Tonson ..., 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of courtship; or, The School of delight. Containing amorous dialogues, complemental expressions, poems, letters and discourses upon sundry occasions, relating to love and business: Pleasant new songs, and directions for courtship and behaviour: And rules for carving flesh, fish, fowl; and cutting up pastry: Also to distinguish the best pieces, and decently to serve a table after the most modish and courtly manner. : With other delightful and profitable things, necessary for the accomplishment of all persons. : To which is added, the significance of moles, in any part of the body, in relation to good and bad fortunes. : As likewise, the interpretation of dreams, as they presage happiness or unhappiness to men and women, in all stations and conditions. : Very profitable and advantageous to all persons. ([London] : Printed by J.M. for J. Back, at the Black Boy on London-Bridge, 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Loves school, or, A new merry book of complements being the language of love fitted to the humours of all sorts, sexes and conditions : made up of curious and pleasant dialogues and discourses, eloquent and delicious letters, songs, and sonnets, with many other fine fantacies and pretty conceits. (London : Printed for W. Thackeray ..., 1674) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of courting, displayed in eight different scenes; the principal of which are taken from actual life, and published for the amusement of the American youth. : [Four lines of quotations] : Published according to act of Congress. (Newburyport [Mass.]: : Printed by William Barrett. West corner of Market-Square., 1795), by William Bradford and Ebenezer Bradford (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Reflections on courtship and marriage: in two letters to a friend. Wherein a practicable plan is laid down for obtaining and securing conjugal felicity. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin,, M,DCC.XLVI. [1746]), by Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift (HTML at Evans TCP)

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