The Athenian spy

discovering the secret letters which were sent to the Athenian Society by the most ingenious ladies of the three kingdoms, relating to the management of their affections : being a curious system of love cases, platonic and natural : I. the principles of love, according to Plato's idea, in an intire series of platonic courtship between several philosophic gentlemen and ladies, with the form of platonic matrimony, II. the way of a man with a maid, or, the whole art of amour, with all its intrigues and amusements, till its consummation in enjoyment : intermix'd vvith great variety of poems : being an intire collection of love-secrets communicated from time to time to the Athenian Society. --

by John Dunton, bookseller