THE BEST WORK ON PAINTING IN WATER COLOURS. PENLEY (A.) THE ENGLISH SCHOOL of PAINTING in WATER COLOURS: its Theory and Practice, with the several Stages of Progression, with 47 large and beautiful Illustrations in the best style of Chromolithography, imperial folio, handsome cloth binding, £2. 12s 6d (pub. £4. 4s) WITH MANY ADDITIONAL PLATES. 1880 PEPYS (S., F.R.S.) DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE; from his MS. Cypher in the Pepysian Library; with a Life and Notes by LORD BRAYBROOKE ; deciphered, with additional Notes and very full Index, by the REV. MYNORS BRight, м.a., numerous portraits from the Collection in the Pepysian Library, printed in permanent Woodbury-type, also 60 additional Portraits inserted of Persons mentioned in the work, 6 splendid vols. imperial octavo, LARGE PAPER, half morocco extra, uncut, £15. 15s 1876 Another copy of the same, 6 vols. full bound in morocco extra, uncut, top edges gilt, £24. This edition is consequent upon a fresh deciphering of Pepys's short-hand Diary, and produces, for the first time, a multitude of curious and free passages omitted by the delicacy of the previous editor. "The Diary of Pepys throws a distinct and vivid light over the picture of England and its government during the ten years succeeding the restoration. If quitting the broad path of history, we seek for minute information concerning ancient manners and customs, the progress of arts and sciences, and the various branches of antiquity, we have never seen a mine so rich as the volumes before us. PEARSON (Dean) Life and Writings of DR. C. LIFE and Correspondence of the REV. C. F. SWARTZ; with History of Christianity in India, portrait and map, 2 vols. 8vo. calf, 6s 1834 "Send me Swartz" (said Hyder Ali); "send me the Christian Missionary: I will treat with him: for him only can I trust." PEGGE (S.) 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WHEATLEY, second edition, with the addition of a fine portrait of Nell Gwynn after Lely's painting, crown Svo. new cloth, gilt top, 4s (pub. 78 6d) 1880 The same, ILLUSTRATED BY 8 ADDITIONAL FINE STEEL PORTRAITS (including Nell Gwynu), cloth, gilt top, 7s 6d This volume is indispensable to the admirers (and they are legion) of Pepys's Diary. It has received warm commendations from the Public Press. CONTENTS:-Pepys before the Diary-Pepys in the Diary- Pepys after the Diary-Tangier Pepys's Books and Collections PERCY (Bishop) FOLIO MANUSCRIPT: Old English Ballads and Romances, COMPLETE, including the LoOSE and HUMOUROUS SONGS; with Introductions, Glossary, etc., by HALES, FURNIVALL, CHILD, CHAPPELL, etc.; facsimile of a page, LARGEST PAPER, 3 vols. in 6, 4to. handsomely bound in orange morocco super-extra, gold borders on sides, gilt edges, VERY SCARCE, £22. 10s 1867-8 Only sixty-five copies were printed of the above size, to range with the Roxburghe Club Books, PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA of the Society for the Dif- Compr. l'indic. par Ordre Alph. de Noms d'Auteurs, I. Des Ouvrages Entomol. publies en France et à l'Etranger jusques l'Année 1834; II. Des Monogr. et Mém. cont. dans les Recueils. Journaux et Coll. Acad. Fr. et Etran.; accomp. de Notices sur les Ouvr. Périod., les Dict. et les Mém. des Soc. Sav., etc. PERCIER et FONTAINE, DÉCORATIONS INTÉRIEURES, 72 plates of Vases, Tripods, Candelabra, Lamps, Chimney-pieces, Clocks, Tables, Secretaries, Beds, Chairs, Mirrors, etc., with Descriptions, folio, half cloth, £1. 8s Paris, 1812 PERCY (Bishop) RELIQUES of ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY: Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and other Pieces of our earlier Poets, with a few of later date, edited, with Introduction, Prefaces, Notes, etc., by H. B. WHEATLEY, portrait, 3 vols. large Svo. new calf gilt, £2. 2s 1876 The same, 3 vols. new morocco extra, gilt edges, £2. 15s The same, LARGE PAPER, 3 vols. superroyal Svo. roxburghe binding, £4. 14s 6d FOLIO MANUSCRIPT; Old English Ballads and Romances (including the suppressed "Loose and Humourous" Songs); with Introduction, Notes, Glossary, etc., by Hales, Furnivall, Child, Chappell, etc., facsimile page, 3 vols. 8vo. in 7 parts (as published), sewn, £2. 12s 6d 1867 Another copy (complete as above), 3 vols. Svo. tree-calf extra, top edges gilt, £3. 10s Another copy (complete as above), 4 vols. royal 8vo. LARGE PAPER, half morocco extra, uncut (scarce), £3. 10s "This precious MS. contains 196 pieces, in nearly 40,000 lines, and is in a hand of James 1.'s reign. The list of its contents shows how many unprinted Ballads and Romances it contains -for what Percy printed of the MS. must be considered unprinted for our purpose."-Editor's Preface. RELIQUES of ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY, Another copy, 4 vols. in 2, calf, 8s 6d 1823 RELIQUES of ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY; 3 vols. 18mo. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND in morocco extra, gilt edges, £1. 6s Moxon, 1844 RELIQUES of ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY; edited by J. V. PRICHARD, 2 vols. foolscap Svo. half calf gilt, 10s 6d 1876 RELIQUES of ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY; with Memoir and critical Dissertation, Introductions, Notes, and Glossary, by the REV. G. GILFILLAN (large type edition), 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, Edinburgh, 1858 PERCY ANECDOTES; collected and edited by R. and S. Percy, a verbatim Reprint of the Original Edition, with Preface by J. Timbs, frontispieces containing 24 portraits, 3 vols. post Svo, half calf gilt, 18s 10s 6d n. d. PERCY (Dr. J.) METALLURGY: the Art of extracting Metals from their Ores, and adapting them to various Purposes of Manufacture: Iron and Steel, numerous illnstrations, thick sve cloth, £3. 10s 1864 METALLURGY of LEAD, including Desilveri zation and Cupellation, with numerous oriques and other Woodcuts to accurate Scale, Svo. mer half morocco extra, gilt edges, £1. 10s 1870 METALLURGY, the Art of Extracting Metals from their Ores: INTRODUCTION, REFRACTORY MATERIALS, and FUEL, with 9 large folding plates, 2 coloured, and over 100 woodcuts, thick 8vo. cloth, 16s (pub. £1. 10s) 18753 PERELLE'S ENGRAVINGS, nearly 200 plates by his Views are held. They are composed in a very pleas £9. 18s 17772 Many of these Designs are extremely beautiful: of some the larger ones the centres are designed by CIPRIAN engraved by BARTOLOZZI. The work from having been pub during a long iuterval, seldom contains so many plates as de the present copy. PEROWNE (Dean) The BOOK of PSALMS, A new Translation; with Introduction and Notes ex planatory and critical, revised edition, 2 vols. 8v calf gilt (nice copy), £2. 2s 18734 The same, 2 vols. 8vo. calf gilt, £2. PERRAULT (C. LES HOMMES ILLUSTRES ont paru en France pendant ce Siècle; BRILLIAN IMPRESSIONS of the 103 fine Portraits, 2 vol folio in one, old calf (RARE), £5. 58 Paris, 1696-170 PERRY (G.) CONCHOLOGY, or NATURAL HIS TORY of SHELLS, containing a new arrangeme of the Genera and Species, with 61 plates, prising numerous BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED FIGURES, folio, morocco extra, gilt edges, £1. 15 coloured. 15624 Another copy, half morocco extra, £1. ls 187 PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY: Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies, consisting of Reprints, Notices, or Analyses of Rare or Curious Books or MSS.; Unpublished Documents and Letters; Biographical Sketches of Persons connected with Literature, from original sources; Typographical Curiosities, Illuminations, and Illustrations of Books and Researches into the Connexion of Literature with the Fine Arts; Accounts of the Productions of Private Presses; Private Libraries, etc.; 5 thick vols. small 4to. half bound in Morocco extra, top edges gilt (VERY RARE), £15. 1854-64 Privately Printed for the Members only, the number of whom is limited to FORTY. PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S PROCEEDINGS, 6 vols. cloth, 1842-53-Transactions of the Philological Society, 1854-79, 17 vols. cloth-Transactions, 1880-3, in 5 parts; also Extra Publications as under, 7 vols. in cloth, and 5 parts; in all, 30 vols. cloth, and 10 parts, sewn, £15. 15s 1842-83 The following is a list of the Extra Publications in this set: Liber Cure Cocorum, edited by Morris, 1862-Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, edited by Morris, 1866-Manipulus Vocabulorum, by Peter Levins (1570), edited by H. B. Wheatley, 1867-Moso-Gothic Glossary, by Skeat, 1868-Ellis on Early English Pronunciation, with special reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, 4 vols. 1869-75-Medieval Greek Texts, part I., edited by W. Wagner, 1870-Early English Poems, and Lives of Saints, edited by F. J. Furnivall, 1862-Pricke of Conscience, by Rolle de Hampole, edited by Morris, 1863-Castel of Love, translated by R. Grosseteste, edited by R. F. Weymouth, 1864. 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