The New lover's instructor; or, Whole art of courtship Being the lover's complete library and guide: and containing full and complete instructions concerning love, courtship, and marriage. Whereby every part of those laudable and important concerns is rendered perfectly easy to all capacities; and including, among a very great variety of other curious articles, equally instructive and entertaining, the most ingenious love letters, in a great variety of forms, written to and from both sexes, relative to courtship and marriage, calculated for the use of persons of all ranks and conditions of life. The politest personal conversations between lovers, &c. On the subjects of love and marriage, equally interesting to parents, guardians, children, and wards. Cards of compliment, proper to be used in courtship by lovers of both sexes, and suited to all the emergencies and situations of human life. Love epistles in verse, written in an elegant style;-and a variety of other poems and necessary particulars, on the important subjects of love and courtship. The whole tending to guide the youthful mind in the most engaging of it's pursuits; to direct each sex how to make a prudent choice in partner for life; to lead to happiness through the paths of virtue and honour and to remove entirely those disagreeable embarrassments, which many persons are under in making proposals of marriage. Published under the direction and inspection of Charles Freeman, Esq. and Mrs. Charlotte Dorrington. Embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece, entirely new (Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, 1780)
English Short Title Catalog, T223592
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Reproduction of original from British Library
The verso of the titlepage contains advertisements for George Brown's 'New and and best young man's companion' and 'New and complete English letter-writer', both of which were published ca. 1779