Archers and Royal Company of Archers, scarce, ás. That elegant Latin poet, Dr. Pitcairne, says Seward, wrote some beautiful lines as an epitaph for Lord Dundee. 270 Poole's English Parnassus, front, fine copy, brown calf, 18s.... 1677 Warton complains that this is the second English Flora which has omitted to cite Milton's smaller poems. Mr. Todd, who, says Mr. Parke, possesses that spirit of studious perseverance and accurate investigation, which Warton was only deficient in, declares, that there are few pages of Poole's Parnassus in which quotations may not be found from those poems. 271 Peter Pindar's Works, portrait, best edition, 5 vol. elegantly bound, 3l. 3s... .1704 272 Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy, 2 vol. half bound, 10s. 6d. ... 1799 273 A Panegyrical Essay, irrefragably proving that the present Times are the most Heroic, Wise, and Virtuous, that ever were, 4to. sewed, 2s. 6d.....Oxford, 1777 "This other Eden, demy paradise." 274 Parnell's Poems, published by Mr. Pope, 2s. 6d. Tonson, 1760 Hume, the History of England maker, had an uncommon partiality to these poems. "Parnell," says he, "after the fiftieth reading, is as fresh as at the first." 275 Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, very neat, 7s. ... 1786 276 Humane Industry, or a History of most manual Arts, 10s. 6d..... 1661 Written by Dr. Powell. MSS. note at the beginning, on its rarity and value, by Granger and Bland. 277 Poems by Philomela, 2s. 6d... .1696 278 Hugh Peter's Tales and Jests, sewed, 3s..........1807 279 History of Robert Powel, the Puppet-show man, 5s. 1714 An excellent Satire on Harley's Ministry, written by Judge Burnet, son of the Bishop. There is a very severe, but beautiful satire, on Queen Anne's treatment of Marlborough: "Worth and honour are banished this kingdom, and he that would rise and be great must despise them. To convince you of this, I will give you a short description of our country: This island is called Mucteria, or the Land of Noses. As we are all noses, so we are govern'd by a nose, which most people suppose to be of wax, for it has been known to receive several different impressions; and since it varies so often, to describe it were the same as painting yonder waves. ......1764 280 Mrs. Pilkington's Jests, sewed, 3s. 6d. 281 Politeuphia, Wit's Commonwealth, half bound, 9s. 6d. 1688 282 Prior's Poems, portrait, 3 vol. neat, 7s. 6d. .......1733 283 Quarle's Emblems, first edition, with the cuts by Marshall, wanting two leaves in the middle, half bound, 10s. 6d. 284 Quarle's Emblems, brown calf, cuts, 7s. 6d. ......1708 285 Quarles' Epigrams, Divine Fancies, &c. port. 15s. 1675 Edward Browne styles the bard, "the aspiring larke, our laureat poet, Mr. Francis Quarles, whose unparallel'd verses seeme to penetrate the heavens.' Tinnet inane est, says Pope to Atterbury, is the best thing I have the luck to remember in that great poet Quarles (not that I forget the Devil at Bowls, your Lordship's favourite cut, as well as favourite diversion). 286 Don Quixotte, translated by Shelton, with Coypell's plates, 5 vol. 11. 10s. very good set............ 1740 287 Reed's Biographia Dramatica, or Historical and Critical Memoirs and Original Anecdotes of British and Irish F Dramatic Writers, 4 vol. elegantly bound, 21. 16s. ..1812 1799 288 Rede's Anecdotes and Biography, including many Modern Characters in the Circles of Fashionable and Official Life, boards, 5s... 289 Roderick Random, 2 vol. neat, 6s..............1770 290 Radcliffe's Ramble, an anti-heroick Poem, with some terrestrial Hymns and carnal Ejaculations, brown calf, 1682 15s. 291 Randolph's Poems, with the Muse's Looking-Glasse, and Amyntas, 4to. middling copy, 10s. 6d. Oxford, 1638 292 Remarkable Satires; the Causidicade, Triumvirade, Porcupinade, Processionade, Piscopade, Scandalezade, and Pasquinade, with Notes variorum, neat, scarce, 12s..... 293 Rousseau's Eloisa, 4 vol. neat, 12s. 294 Rollin's Belles Lettres, 4 vol. neat, 15s.. 1760 .....1776 ...1770 295 Allan Ramsay's Collection of Songs, Scots and English, 4 vol. in 1, portrait, fine copy, This is an excellent selection of songs from every period, with some new ones by Ramsay and his friends. 296 Rex Redax, sive Musa Cantab. voti clamnan, de incolumitate et felici reditu Regis Caroli, &c. 4s. sewed, 5s... 1633 Here are poems by Sir Henry Newton, Thos. Paget, son of Lord Paget, Will. Mountagu, son of Edward Lord Mountagu, Will. Fiennes, son of Lord Say and Sele, Henry More, C. C. the philosopher, T. Randolph the poet, Rich. Crashaw, Aul. Pemb. poet, Waller the poet, &c. &c. 297 The most delectable History of Reynard the Fox, both parts, with the Shifts of Reynardine, the Son of Reynard, 4to. half bound, good copy, except a part of one leaf torn away, 2. 2s.. ..1684 298 Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, second edition, good copy, elegantly bound, 71. 7s.......1632 299 Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, with the Seven Plays never before printed, in folio, portrait, good copy, extra, fourth edition, 51. 5s.........1685 300 Shakspeare, 9 vol. 32mo, very neat, 11. 5s...... A well printed pocket edition, 1804 301 Swift's Works, revised by J. Nichols, F. S. 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Edinb. 1776 Contains many curious particulars of Scot's history; but the worthy author, being an "unliterate soldier," the poetry is truly barbarous, 306 Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, neat, 10s. 6d. 307 Secret Memoirs and Manners of Persons of Quality, sewed, 2s... ..1709 308 Life and Works of Smollet, by Dr. Anderson, portrait, 6 vol. elegantly bound... 1811 309 Shadwell's Plays, 4 vol. neat, scarce, 1l. 5s.......1720 310 Sylvester's Spirit of Teares distilled, for the un-tymely Death of the incomparable Prince Panaretus (Henry), 4to. half bound Silver-tongued Silvester was in high esteem with Q. Elizabeth, James I. and particularly with Prince Henry, who made him his first poet-pensioner. He was not more celebrated for his poetry than for his private virtues. 311 Sterne's Sentimental Journey, cuts after Stothard, elegantly bound, 9s..... 1801 312 Shaftesbury's Characteristicks, 3 vol. 24mo. 5s....1744 313 Southerne's Dramatic Works, 2 vol. 10s... Tonson, 1721 314 Sandy's Christ's Passion, a Tragedy, with Annotations, Dryden styled him the best versifier of the age, and Pope declared that English Poetry owes much of its present beauty to his translation, 315 Spencer's Faerie Queen, first edition, 4to.........1590 For the rarity of this book I believe I need say nothing. 316 Simpson's Compendium of Practical Musick, portrait by Faithorne, fine copy, 7s. 6d. rare... 1678 317 Somervile's Poetical Works and Life, neat, 3s, 24mo. 318 Sir Philip Sydney's Defence of Poetry, with Ben Jonson's Discoveries, sewed, 3s. 5d.... ..1787 319 Sylvia's Revenge, or a Satyr against Man, a Poem, 4to. half bound, 6s..... ..1688 320 The Portrait of Old Age, wherein is contained a sacred Anatomy both of Soul and Body, by John Smith, M. D. boards, uncut. An extremely well written and curious book. 1752 321 Salmon's Ancient and Modern Rome, cuts, boards, scarce, 2 vol. 17. 4s. rare... ...1800 |