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• 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)
• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Meet your mate the modern way; a present-day practical solution to an age-old personal problem, (Boston, The Christopher publishing house, [c1940]), by Elmer U. Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of courting. (New York, Dutton, 1955 [c1954]), by E. S. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling; its origin, progress and decline in America, (New York, Book collectors association, inc., [c1934]), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream, (London, Constable & Co., Ltd., 1914), by William Shakespeare, illust. by W. Heath Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A midsummer night's dream, (New Haven, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1918), by William Shakespeare and W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Plague of London : together with, Religious courtship / (New York : Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer-night's dream, for young people; (New York, F.A. Stokes Company, [1907]), by William Shakespeare and Lucy Fitch Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• An old-fashioned girl / (Boston : Little, Brown, [1911]), by Louisa May Alcott, illust. by Elenore Plaisted Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• My woodland bride : an admired ballad / (New York : Atwill, 1841), by Charles E. Horn, George Pope Morris, and N.Y.) Endicott & Co. (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• One little word my love whispered to me : ballad / (New York : Endicott, [between 1834 and 1839]), by W. Kirby, C. Watson, and Edw. Lancaster, contrib. by George Endicott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silver moon : a serenade / (New York : Firth & Hall, [1838]), by J. Chadwick, Maria Caradori-Allan, and N.Y.) Endicott & Co. (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pirate's serenade : sung with great applause by Mr. Horncastle / (Boston : Henry Prentiss, [1838]), by John Thomson, J. H. Horncastle, and lithographer T. Moore’s Lithography, illust. by R. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonel : a ballad / (Boston : Henry Prentiss, 1841), by Austin Phillips, George Morris Pope, and lithographer B.W. Thayer & Co, contrib. by Henry Prentiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer-night's dream. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1874), by William Shakespeare, illust. by Alfred Fredericks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pros and cons, for Cupid and Hymen : in a series of metrical satiric dialogues : exhibiting the horrors and delights of being over head and ears in love; with the supreme felicity and wretchedness of matrimony : to which are added, several other pieces / (London : Printed and published by M. Allen ..., 1807), by Jenkin Jones and Michael Allen, illust. by John Augustus Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral philosophy of courtship and marriage : designed as a companion to the "Physiology of marriage" / by William A. Alcott. (Boston, John P. Jewett & Company ; Cleveland, O. : H.P.B. Jewett, 1859, c1856), by William A. Alcott and William A. Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prince Dorus. (London, Field & Tuer, 1889), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Guide des amoureux et des gens du monde [ressource électronique] : 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. ([Montréal : C.O. Beauchemin, 1898]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lover's dictionary containing a vast amount of information of interest to those in love ... (London : Pearson, 1903), by G. R. M. Devereux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Egoisuto / (Tōkyō : Kokumin Bunko Kankōkai, Taishō 6-7 [1917-1918]), by George Meredith and Tokuboku Hirata (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. (Brooklyn (opposite New York) : Merone & Butcher, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• No stranger to my neighbor / (Denver : Outdoor Life Publishing Company, c1906), by Lewis B. France, Norwood Press. prt, and Outdoor Life Publishing Company. pbl, illust. by Charles Edgar Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fusser's book; (New York : Fox, Duffield & co., 1904), by Anna Archbald and Georgia Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elsie in the South. (New York, Dodd, Mead & co., [1899]), by Martha Finley and Mead & Company. pbl Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Garland of love : a collection of posy-ring mottoes. (London : A.L. Humphreys, 1902), by Arthur Lee Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Little Colonel's knight comes riding / (Boston : Page, c1907), by Annie F. Johnston and Etheldred B. Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to cook husbands / (New York : The Dodge Publishing Co., 1899), by Elizabeth Strong Worthington, contrib. by Dodge Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress, and decline in America / (Albany : Knickerbocker Pub. Co., 1871), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A girl of '76, (Boston, Chicago, W. A. Wilde & company, [c1898]), by Amy Ella Blanchard, Ida Waugh, and W.A. Wilde Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robin Hood: a collection of poems, songs, and ballads relative to that celebrated English outlaw. (London, G. Routledge and Sons, 1884), by Joseph Ritson, Joseph Ritson, Camden Press. prt, Dalziel Brothers. prt, and George Routledge and Sons. pbl, illust. by Gordon Browne and Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rose and lavender / (Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1891), by Evelyn Whitaker, John Wilson and Son. prt, Mass.) prt University Press (Cambridge, and Mass.) pbl Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little red house in the hollow / (Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs & Company, c1918), by Amanda Benjamin Hall, Amanda Benjamin Hall, Amanda Benjamin Hall, and George W. Jacobs & Company. pbl, illust. by A. I. Blankenberg and A. I. Blankenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer-night's dream, (Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1900), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Sarah Willard Hiestand and Sarah Willard Hiestand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flat iron for a farthing or, Some passages in the life of an only son (Boston Roberts, 1898), by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Helen Paterson Allingham, and Mass.) pbl Roberts Brothers (Boston, illust. by Horace Harral (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's comedy of Much ado about nothing; (London, J.M. Dent and co., 1906.), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Israel Gollancz and Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsummer night's dream, (Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon, [c1922]), by William Shakespeare, A. B. De Mille, Samuel Thurber, and Samuel Thurber, ed. by Alban Bertram De Mille (page images at HathiTrust)
• A knight of Columbia : a story of the war / (New York : The Hobart Company, 1904), by Charles King and Hobart Company. pbl, illust. by George Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book, (New York : G.P. Putnam's, 1906), by Myrtle Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• A titled maiden, (Boston and Chicago, Congregational Sunday-school and publishing society, [c1889]), by Caroline Atwater Mason, Samuel. prt elt Usher, and Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The courtships of Queen Elizabeth; a history of the various negotiations for her marriage, (New York, Macmillan, 1896), by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book / (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Myrtle Reed and Margaret Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brachnyĭ poklon mladyma supruzhnit͡syma, zaruchnit͡syma i onyma koi mysle to da budu / (Beograd : U Knټiazhisko-Srbskoĭ Knʹgopechatnʹi, 1833), by Lazo Zuban (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fa Tien : a Chinese love story / (London : Charles H. Kelly, 1896), by Annie M. Piercy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Isabella and her gingham umbrella / (Boston : G.D. Russell & Co., [1864]), by Harry Clifton and Billy Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to find a husband after forty. (Nashville : Allied Publications, [1962]), by C. C. Cabot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A midsummer night's dream, (London, Chatto & Windus; New York, Duffield & Company, 1908), by William Shakespeare and T. Maskell Hardy, illust. by Helen Stratton and Helen Stratton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare's comedy of Much ado about nothing; (New York, Cincinnati, American Book Company, [c1906]), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking toward marriage, (Boston, New York [etc.] : Allyn and Bacon, 1948), by Roswell Hill Johnson, Erma Errickson Pixley, and Helen Randolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Clear thinking about courtship / (Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, ©1952), by J. C. Wenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rip Van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow / (London : Macmillan, 1893), by Washington Irving, George Henry Boughton, Richard Clay and Sons. prt, and Macmillan & Co. pbl, illust. by George Henry Boughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's comedy of Much ado about nothing. (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Company, [1905]), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Much ado about nothing, (New Haven, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1917), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Tucker Brooke and Tucker Brooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les projets de mariage de la reine Élisabeth, (Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1882), by H. La Ferrière-Percy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A midsummer-night's dream, (New York, Macmillan, 1912), by William Shakespeare, ed. by John William Cunliffe and John William Cunliffe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A frog he would a wooing go. (London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co., [between 1876 and 1879]), by Camden Press. prt, Dalziel Brothers. prt, and Frederick Warne (Firm) pbl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jeannette's cisterns / (Troy, N.Y. : H.B. Nims & Co., 1882, c1881), by Lynde Palmer, J.J. Little & Co. prt, and H.B. Nims & Co. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hand of Ethelberta : a comedy in chapters / (London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1876), by Thomas Hardy and binder. IU-R Riviere & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress, and decline in America. (New York, Eugenics Publishing Company, [1912?]), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four girls at Cottage City / (Boston : James H. Earle, 1898), by Emma Dunham Kelley and James H. Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patnubay ng̃ pagsinta : pantas na manga paraan at nang magtagumpay sa pag-ibig / (Maynila : Imprenta at Libreria ni J. Martinez, 1922), by Pascual H. Poblete (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bread and cheese and kisses / (Chicago : Lyon & Healy, c1907), by Ashley M. Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Much ado about nothing; (New York, Macmillan, 1912), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William Witherle Lawrence and William Witherle Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Maraichinage, coutume du Pays de Mont (Vendée) (Paris, A. Maloine, 1906), by Marcel Baudouin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lone heart /, by Eastburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spinster book, (New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Olive Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A man for every woman. (New York, Macmillan, [1959]), by Richard H. Klemer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ratschläge für Junggesellen und Verlobte. (München, A. Langen, 1900), by Marcel Prévost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spinster book, (New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901), by Myrtle Reed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Into the light, or, The jewess / (Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1899), by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Onkologie, A. R. cph Loring, and Lee and Shepard (Firm) pbl (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. (New York : P. F. Collier Publisher, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The egoist : a comedy in narrative / (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911, c1897), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress and decline in America / ([s.l.] : Privately issued for subscribers only, [1871]), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of dating, (New York : Association Press, [1958]), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bundling : its origin, progress, and decline in America. (Albany : Knickerbocker Pub. Co., 1871), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marriage and home, or, Proposal and espousal [electronic resource] : a Christian treatise on the most sacred relations to mortals known, love, marriage, home, youth, bachelors, lovers, husbands, wives, parents and children : a guide to our sons and daughters, a counsellor to parents / (Port Adelaide, Australia; Melbourne; Brantford, Ont. : Bradley, Garretson, 1888), by Clergyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hours with girls / (New York : American Tract Society, c1881), by Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and American Tract Society. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• How men propose: the fateful question and its answer. (Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company, 1888), by Agnes Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phlēng yāo khārom kao. (Krungthēp ... : Rōngphim Thai, 2460-2461 [1917-1918]), by William J. SP1 Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bliss of marriage; or, How to get a rich wife. (New Orleans: J.B. Steel, 1858), by Samuel Stone Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flirts: silhouettes de jeunes filles étrangères. (Paris : P.-V. Stock, 1903), by A. Monnier-Wissocq (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kjærlighedens glæder, eller, Nøgle til kjærlighedens og ægteskasbets hemmeligheder : en raadgiver for elfkende, forlevede og nygifte / ([Gentofte] : SCOOP, 1980), by J. L. Mayer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Van vrijen en trouwen : bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van oud-vaderlandsche zeden / (Haarlem : De Erven F. Bohn, 1891), by Nicolaas de Roever (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Midsummer night's dream, (New York, E. S. Werner & company, c1911), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's A midsummer-night's dream, (Chicago, Scott, Foresman and company, [c1910]), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's A midsummer-night's dream. (Boston, Ginn, Heath, & co., 1884), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's A midsummer-night's dream. (Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & company, [c1908]), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer night's dream; (New York [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company, 1896), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's comedy of Much ado about nothing. (New York, Harper & brothers, 1879 [1878]), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Much ado about nothing, a comedy in five acts, by William Shakespeare. (Boston, W. H. Baker & co., 1916), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Much ado about nothing, ed. by Tucker Brooke. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.,], 1917), by Shakespeare William (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's A midsummer-night's dream. (New York, E. Maynard & co., 1890), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midsommer nights dreame: facsimile reprint of the text of the first folio, 1623, (Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing; arranged in two acts for amateur representation, (Boston, W. H. Baker & co., 1894), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern loves : the anthropology of romantic courtship & companionate marriage / Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow, editors. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lady's valentine writer, or, Amatory banquet : consisting of chaste, elegant, serious, humorous, comic, & satirical love epistles, letters, answers, replies, &c. &c. : supposed to come from persons under various circumstances and situations in life. (London : Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, No. 10, Newgate-Street, [1824]), by Robert Cruikshank and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hodgson's universal valentine writer, for the current year : being a choice collection of original amatory epistles, addresses, answers, &c. &c. : adapted to the use of persons of either sex ; and suited to all ranks and conditions of lovers, and would-be lovers / (London : 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)
• Account of the courtships and marriages of the natives of Kamschatka, a part of the Russian dominions [electronic resource] / ([S.l. : s.n., 1785?]), by Person who has resided among them (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious courtship [electronic resource] : being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only, as also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another : with an appendix showing the necessity of taking none but religious servants and a proposal for the better managing of servants / (Halifax : W. Milner, 1840), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 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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