One hundred and fifty-nine play-bills, of which twenty-one are
duplicates. Volume I contains eighty-three bills of the Drury-Lane
Theatre, from March 11, 1765--September 6, 1769, with a few undated and
one of February 23, 1785. The seventy-six in Volume II are principally
of the Theatre Royal in Liverpool, and extend from September 9,
1772--September 24, 1785, with a few undated.
PLOMER, HENRY R.--Abstracts from the Wills of English Printers &
Stationers, from 1492 to 1630. By Henry R. Plomer. London: printed for
the Bibliographical Society, By Blades, East & Blades. February, 1903.
_4to, original paper covers, uncut edges._
PLOMER, HENRY R.--See Duff, E. Gordon.
PLUTARCH.--Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Original Greek; with
notes, critical and historical; and a new Life of Plutarch. By J.
Langhorne, D. D. and W. Langhorne, M. A. . . . London: printed for J.
Richardson and Co. &c . . . 1821. _12mo, eight volumes, half green
levant morocco, uncut edges._
Inserted are over fifty plates, by Van der Gucht, Du Guernier, and Giles
King after Cheron and Van der Gucht.
POCKET BOOK.--A little pretty Pocket-book, Intended for the Instruction
and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly. With Two
Letters from Jack the Giant-Killer; as also a Ball and Pincushion; The
Use of which will infallibly make Tommy a good Boy, and Polly a good
Girl. To which is added, a little song-book, being A New Attempt to
teach Children the Use of the English Alphabet, by Way of
Diversion. The first Worcester edition. Printed at Worcester,
Massachusetts. By Isaiah Thomas, And sold, Wholesale and Retail,
at his Book-Store. M DCC LXXXVII. _16mo, green levant morocco, gilt
back, side compartments in gilt and mosaic of red morocco, doubled with
green morocco, gilt borders, red silk guards, gilt top, uncut edges, by
The Club Bindery._
Woodcut frontispiece, "Instruction with Delight," and sixty-five cuts in
the text.
The present copy contains the leaf of advertisement, H6, and the two
final blank leaves, H7 and H8.
Dedicated by the Editor to the Parents, Guardians, and Nurses in the
United States of America.
POCKET DIARY. XVIII^{th} Century. _12mo, old English red morocco, gilt
back, sides covered with conventional floral ornaments and insects,
silver bosses, gilt edges, with pencil and sheath._
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the
American Brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of
June, 1827. With an account of the recapture of the vessel by the
survivers; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from
famine; their deliverance by means of the British Schooner Jane Guy; the
brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Antarctic Ocean; her capture
and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the
eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the
incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that
distressing calamity gave rise New York: Harper & Brothers . . . 1838.
_12mo, half blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
First edition.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. Eureka par Edgar Poe.
Traduction de Charles Baudelaire. Paris, Michel Levy, freres . . . 1870.
_12mo, half red morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
POE, EDGAR ALLAN, _editor_.--The Conchologist's First Book: or, a System
of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged expressly for the use of Schools, in
which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a
great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as
accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science. By
Edgar A. Poe. With illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells,
presenting a correct type of each genus. [12 plates] Philadelphia:
published for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, . . .
1839. _16mo, half brown morocco._
A compilation from various English sources.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Tales by Edgar A. Poe New York: Wiley and Putnam, . . .
1845. _8vo, boards, uncut edges._
First edition.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Histoires Extraordinaires par Edgar Poe. Traduction
par Charles Baudelaire. Paris, Michel Levy, freres . . . 1869. _12mo,
half red morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires par Edgar Poe.
Traduction de Charles Baudelaire. Paris, Michel Levy, freres . . . 1869.
_12mo, half red morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Edgar Poe. Histoires Extraordinaires, traduites par
Charles Baudelaire. Edition illustree de treize gravures hors texte.
Paris, A. Quantin . . . 1884. _8vo, brown levant morocco, Janseniste,
gilt top, uncut edges, by Chambolle-Duru._
No. 25 of one hundred copies printed on Japan paper, with the original
covers, and two states of the portrait by Chifflart and etchings by
Wogel, on Holland and Japan paper, the latter proofs before letters.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Charles Baudelaire. Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe
Illustrations de Louis Legrand. Paris imprime pour les Amis des Livres
. . . 1897. _Royal 8vo, brown levant morocco, filleted back and side
borders, gilt over uncut edges, with the original covers bound in, by
Chambolle-Duru._
No. 61 of fifty copies printed with the large illustrations in two
states.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--The Raven and other poems. By Edgar A. Poe. London:
Wiley & Putnam, . . . 1846. _12mo, original cloth, uncut edges._
The first edition with the London imprint.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--The Raven and other poems. By Edgar A. Poe. New York:
Wiley and Putnam, . . . 1845. _8vo, boards, uncut edges, in a red levant
morocco case._
First American edition.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--(I.-II.) The Works of the late Edgar Allan Poe: with
notices of his life and genius. By N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W.
Griswold . . . [Portrait] New York: J. S. Redfield . . . 1850.
(III.) The Literati: some honest opinions about autorial merits and
demerits, with Occasional Words of Personality. Together with
marginalia, suggestions, and essays. By Edgar A. Poe . . . with a sketch
of the author by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New York: J. S. Redfield . . .
1850.
(IV.) The Works of the late Edgar Allan Poe with a Memoir by Rufus
Wilmot Griswold and notices of his life and genius by N. P. Willis and
J. R. Lowell. Redfield . . . New York. 1856. _12mo, four volumes, half
blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford._
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe with A Notice
of his Life and Genius By James Hannay, . . . With twenty
illustrations by E. H. Wehnert, James Godwin, F. W. Hulme, and
Harrison Weir. London: Addey and Co. . . . M DCCC LIII. _Post 8vo,
cloth, uncut edges._
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with an essay on his
poetry by Andrew Lang. London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., . . .
MDCCCLXXXI. _Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with frontispiece on India paper.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Tamerlane and other poems by Edgar Allan Poe first
published at Boston in 1827 and now first republished from a unique copy
of the original edition with a preface by Richard Herne Shepherd London
George Redway M DCCC LXXXIV. _16mo, vellum boards, uncut edges._
No. 35 of one hundred copies printed.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--The Works of Edgar Allan Poe with a Memoir by Richard
Henry Stoddard . . . [etching] New York George P. Putnam's Sons . . .
[n. d.] _Square 8vo, eight volumes, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
Portrait, seven etched frontispieces, and vignettes on the title-pages.
Three hundred and fifteen copies printed.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--Les Cloches poeme de Edgar Poe traduction libre
d'Emile Blemont avec quatre eaux-fortes de Henry Guerard Paris
Librairie de l'Eau-forte . . . _4to, original paper covers, uncut
edges._
One hundred Holland paper copies printed, with etchings on Japan paper.
POE, EDGAR ALLEN.--Some Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to E. H. N. Patterson
of Oquawka, Illinois, with Comments by Eugene Field Chicago the
Caxton Club 1898. _4to, buckram, uncut edges._
One hundred and eighty-six copies printed on American hand-made paper.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.--See Leslie, Eliza. The Gift. Lowell, J. R. The
Pioneer. Stedman, E. C.
POEMS.--A Collection of Poems in six volumes. By several hands.
[vignette] London: Printed by J. Hughs, For R. and J. Dodsley, . . . M
DCC LVIII. _Small 8vo, six volumes, sprinkled calf._
Fifth edition, except of Volume IV, which is second, according to the
half-title. Vignettes, and in Volume III a plate, by Grignion after
Hayman.
Some of the authors represented here, besides many comparatively
unknown, are Dr. Johnson, Shenstone, Lord Lansdown, Gray, Pope, Thomson,
William Collins, Waller, Somerville, Fielding, Akenside, Lord Lyttelton,
and Joseph Warton.
POETICAL ADDRESS.--A Poetical Address to the Fashionable Ladies of
Great Britain. . . . London: printed for the author by T. Bensley; . . .
M DCC LXXX VIII. _4to, paper wrappers, by The Club Bindery._
POETICAL MISCELLANIES.--See Steele, Sir Richard.
POETRY.--Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry . . . London:
Printed by John Bell . . . MDCCXC-1797. _Foolscap 8vo, eighteen volumes
in nine, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by
Rousselle._
Frontispieces by Delatre after Burney, etc.
Large paper copy.
POETRY.--Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700. Selected from MSS.
chiefly in private hands, with a few explanatory and illustrative notes.
Printed [at the Chiswick Press] for private circulation. 1870. _8vo,
cloth, uncut edges._
Fifty copies printed for Henry Huth and edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. The
present copy has the Amatory Poems, thirty-two pages, of which but three
copies were printed. Two autograph letters inserted, from the editor,
verify this detail.
POETS.--One hundred and seventeen illustrations to the English Poets,
including seven portraits. London: Sharpe 1804-'6. _Royal 8vo, two
volumes, russia, gilt back and sides, gilt edges._
One of six copies on India paper, proofs before letters.
POET'S GIFT.--See Keese, John.
POETS OF AMERICA.--See Keese, John.
POLE, WILLIAM.--See Jeaffreson, J. C.
POLHEMUS, JOHN.--A Family Souvenir. My First Vacation and Welcome home,
with a brief biographical sketch [by John Polhemus]. New York: John
Polhemus Printing Company. 1891. _4to, half cloth, uncut edges._
Portrait of the author and his presentation inscription.
POLLARD, ALFRED WILLIAM.--Last Words on the History of the Title-page
with Notes on some colophons and twenty-seven fac-similes of title-pages
by Alfred W. Pollard. [woodcut] London: John C. Nimmo. . . . M DCCC XCI.
_4to, buckram, uncut edges._
No. 27 of two hundred and sixty copies printed.
POLLARD, ALFRED WILLIAM.--Early Illustrated Books A History of the
Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries By
Alfred W. Pollard. London Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., . . . M
DCCC XC III. _8vo, half vellum, uncut edges._
No. 18 of one hundred and fifty large paper copies printed: with woodcut
title, frontispiece on Japan paper, and fifty-eight other facsimiles.
POLLOK, ROBERT.--The Course of Time: a poem, in ten books. By Robert
Pollok, . . . William Blackwood, Edinburgh: and T. Cadell, London,
MDCCCXXVII. _12mo, two volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt
top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition. Portrait of the author, engraved by T. A. Dean, proof on
India paper, inserted.
POMET, PIERRE.--A Compleat History of Druggs, Written in French by
Monsieur Pomet, Chief Druggist to the present French King; to which is
added what is further observable on the same Subject, from Mess^{rs}.
Lemery, and Tournefort, Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal
and Mineral; With their Use In Physick, Chymistry, Pharmacy, And several
other Arts: illustrated With above Four Hundred Copper Cutts curiously
done from the Life; and an Explanation of their different Names, Places
of Growth, and Countries from whence they are brought; the Way to know
the True from the False, their Virtues, &c. A Work of very great Use and
Curiosity. Done into English from the Originals. London: Printed for R.
Bonwicke, . . . 1712. _4to, brown levant morocco, gilt back, side
panels, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
The "cutts" are on eighty-five plates.
POOLE, JOHN.--The Comic Miscellany. By John Poole . . . with a portrait
of the author and an illustration by Phiz. London: William Tegg and Co.,
. . . 1851. _12mo, cloth, uncut edges._
POOLE, REGINALD STUART.--Horae AEgyptiacae: or, the Chronology of Ancient
Egypt discovered from astronomical and hieroglyphic records upon its
monuments; including many dates found in coeval inscriptions from the
period of the building of the great pyramid to the times of the
Persians: and illustrations of the history of the first nineteen
dynasties, shewing the order of their succession, from the monuments. By
Reginald Stuart Poole. With [7] plates and numerous cuts. London: John
Murray, . . . 1851. _8vo, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top,
uncut edges, by R. W. Smith._
POPE, ALEXANDER.--An Essay on Criticism.
. . . Si quid novisti rectius istis,
Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.