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PLEXIPPUS; or, the aspiring plebeian. [By Richard GRAVES.] In two volumes.

London: 1791. Duodecimo. [Gent. Mag., lxxiv. 1166. Mon. Rev., v. 225.] PLIGHTED troth; or, a woman her own rival. A dramatic tale. In five acts. [By DARLEY.]

London: 1842. Octavo. Pp. 3. b. t. 174.* [Bodl.]

PLOT (the). As it is perform'd by his Majesty's company of comedians at the theatre-royal in Drury-Lane. [By John KELLY.] With the musick prefix'd to each song.

Octavo. Pp. 3.

London: MDCCXXXV. b. t. 28. 1.* [Bodl.] PLOUGHMAN'S (the) text-book. By the author of "Morning and night watches," "Words of Jesus," etc. [John Ross M'DUFF., D.D.]

London: N. D. Octavo. Pp. 142. 1.** PLUCK examination papers for candidates at Oxford and Cambridge in 1836 wherein the theory of the art how to be plucked is exhibited in practice; thus completing the end of the entire science. To which is added a synchronological table of the principal historical events at Oxford and Cambridge, for the last four years down to the present era. By Scriblerus Redivivus, author of the Art of being plucked and Synopsis of drinking. [By Edward CASWALL.] Third edition.

Oxford: 1836. Duodecimo. Pp. 50. xx.*

PLUNGING a subject of bigotry, when made essential to baptism. [By Caleb FLEMING.]

London, MDCCXLI. Octavo. Pp. 35.* Republished, with the author's name, in "Tracts on baptism, respecting the mode and subjects of it." London, 1745. 8vo. PLURALITIES indefensible. A treatise humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament of Great-Britain. By a presbyter of the Church of England. [Richard NEWTON, D.D.] London: M.DCC.XLIII. Octavo.*

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Written by way of letter, to Dr Heylin, by H. N. O. J. Oxon. [Henry HICKMAN.]

London: 1661. Quarto. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

PLYMOUTH in an uproar; a musical farce, as it is performed at the TheatreRoyal in Covent-Garden. [By NEVILLE.] The music composed by Mr Dibdin.

London: MDCCLXXIX. Octavo. Pp. 41.* [Biog. Dram.]

IINETMA its usage and sense in Holy Scripture. By Herman Heinfetter [Frederick PARKER], author of "Rules for ascertaining the sense conveyed in ancient Greek manuscripts," etc. etc. London 1847. Duodecimo. Pp. 77.* POCKET (the) and the stud: or, practical hints on the management of the stable. By Harry Hieover. [Charles BINDLEY.]

London 1848. Octavo. Pp. xvi. 215.* POCKET (the) guide to whist By Caven

dish, author of "The laws & principles of whist." [Henry JONES.] Enlarged

edition.

London N. D. Duodecimo. Pp. 2. 15. I.*

POEM (a) in irregular rhymes on birth. [By Sir Samuel Egerton BRYDGES.] [Geneva: 1831.] Duodecimo. Pp. 8. Signed S. E. B.

POEM (a), occasion'd by the birth-day of his most sacred majesty, King George [1]. [By Henry NEVIL.]

London: 1716. Folio. [W., Letter from author in British Museum.]

POEM (the) of poems, or, Sion's muse, contayning the diuine Song of King Solomon, deuided into eight eclogues. [By Gervase MARKHAM.]

London [1595.] Octavo. No pagination.* POEM (a) on her Sacred Majesty Q. Anne, occasioned by her Majesty's gracious letter to her honourable Privy Council; and her Act of indemnity to all her good subjects of the kingdom of Scotland. [By David SYMSON.] Edinburgh, M.DCC.III. Quarto.* POEM (a) on the Countess of Pomfret's benefaction to the University of Oxford. [By John VIVIAN, Fellow of Balliol.] Oxford: N. D. Quarto. Pp. 12.* POEM (a) on the death of the Princess

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Bristol: N. D. Duodecimo. 6 sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 94.] POEM (a) on the recovery of the Hon. Mrs. Eliz. Courtenay from her late dangerous illness: humbly inscrib'd to Kellond Courtenay, of Painsford, Esq; and his lady. Written in the year 1743. [By Benjamin KENNICOTT, D.D.] The second edition.

N. P. MDCCXLVII. Octavo. Pp. 16.* [Davidson, Bib. Devon., p. 128. Bodl.] POEM (a), sacred to the memory of the Reverend, Mr. James Smith, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and one of the ministers of the city. [By Hugh BLAIR, D.D.]

Edinburgh, MDCCXXXVI. Octavo. Pp. 7.* [D. Laing.]

POEM (a) to the memory of the celebrated Mrs Cibber. [By George KEATE, F.R.S.]

London: 1766. Quarto. [Watt, Bib. Brit.
Crit. Rev., xxi. 155.]

POEM (a) upon the death of the late usurper, Oliver Cromwel. By the author of the H---d [Hind] and the P------r [Panther]. [John DRYDEN.] London, 1687. Quarto. Pp. 6. b. t.* POEMA canino-anglico-latinum super adventu recenti serenissimarum principum non cancellarii præmio donatum aut donandum nec in Theatro Sheldoniano recitatum aut recitandum. [By the Right Hon. Robert LowE.]

Oxford, N. D. Octavo. Pp. 8.* [Bodl.]
The fifth edition is dated 1843.

POEMA mortuale: or, an elegy upon death, the law of nature, and tribute of mortals. By R. M. No poet, nor the son of a poet. [Richard MAYHEW.]

Anno praedicto 1679. Octavo. Pp. 16. POEMS. [By Alexander COCHRANE.] Not published.

London: 1838. Octavo. [W., Martin's Cat.]

With a Dedication to the author's father, Sir Thomas Cochrane.

POEMS.

[By Alexander WILSON, weaver, Forfar.]

N. P. N. D. [1821.] Duodecimo. Pp. 26.* [A. Jervise.]

POEMS. [By Francis Noel Clark MUNDY.]

Oxford, M.DCC. LX. VIII. Quarto. Pp. 97.* [Dyce Cat., ii. 106.]

POEMS. By*****. [Soame JENYNS.] London: MDCCLII. Octavo. Pp. 194. b. t.* [Douce Cat.]

POEMS. By a lady. [J. Henrietta PYE.]

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Duodecimo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1896, 2014.]

POEMS. By a member of the University of Oxford. [Wyndham Madden HUTTON.]

Oxford, 1851. Octavo. Pp. viii. 94.* POEMS. By an Oxonian. [H. J. W.

BUXTON.]

Oxford: 1865. Octavo. Pp. 248.* [F.
Madan.]

POEMS By E. S. H. [Elizabeth Still
PEARSALL, Countess of Harrington.]
London: 1874.
[Adv. Lib.]

POEMS

Octavo. Pp. viii. 67.*

By J. B. Selkirk. BROWN, of Selkirk.]

[James

London: 1869. Octavo. Pp. ix. 195.*

POEMS. By J. C. [John CLEVELAND.] With additions.

Printed in the year 1651. Octavo. Pp. 56.*

POEMS. By John Hall, of Durham. The second edition, reprinted from the edition of 1646. [Edited by Sir Samuel Egerton BRYDGES.]

London: 1816. Duodecimo. [W]

With short life of the author, signed S. E.B. POEMS. By L. [Catherine SWANWICK.] London: 1858. Octavo.* [Olphar Hamst, P. 73.]

A second series was publised in 1859, and a third in 1860.

POEMS. By Morgan de Pembroke. [Morgan EVANS.]

London: 1860. Octavo. Pp. 60.* [Copy letter from Athenæum, 4. Oct. 1862, P. 437.]

POEMS. By the author of "The patience of hope." [Dora GREENWELL.] Edinburgh: 1861. Octavo. Pp. viii. 315.* POEMS. By the incomparable, Mrs K. P. [Katharine PHILLIPS.]

London, 1664. Octavo. Pp. 13. 242.*

[Fortnightly

POEMS. By two brothers. [Alfred and
Charles TENNYSON.]
London. 1827. Octavo.
Review, 1 Oct. 1865, p. 386.]
POEMS. By Viator. [Thomas D'OYLY.]
London 1843. Octavo.*

POEMS. By W. H. [William HAM-
MOND.]

London, 1655. Octavo. Pp. 84. b. t.* Sir E. Brydges reprinted a very limited number of this very scarce and rare volume, under the title of "Occasional poems of William Hammond, Esq.," 1816, 4to. POEMS, amorous, funerall, divine, pastorall, in sonnets, songs, sextains, madrigals. By W. D. [William DRUMMOND of Hawthornden.]

Edinburgh 1616. Quarto. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

POEMS and essays, by a lady lately deceased. [Mrs BOWDLER.] Published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath. The second edition. [In two volumes.]

Bath: M DCC LXXXVI. Octavo.*

POEMS and essays; or, a book for the times. By Dalmocand. [George MACDONALD.]

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POEMS and essays, with a paraphrase on Cicero's Lælius in heroic verse. [By the Hon. Edward HOWARD.]

London: 1674.

Octavo. [W., Lowndes,

Bibliog. Man.] POEMS and poetical fragments. [By Henry ALFORD, M.A.]

Cambridge: M. DCCCXXXIII. Octavo. Pp. vi. 97.* [Bodl.]

POEMS and poetical fragments. [By Lord LINDSAY.]

Wigan: 1838. Octavo. [W., Martin's Cat.] POEMS and translations by a young gentleman of Oxford. [Edmund LECHMERE.]

1770. Quarto. [Chambers' Worcester, p. 561. Mon. Rev., xliii. 152. European Mag., xxxiv. 357.]

POEMS and translations, written upon several occasions and to several persons. By a late scholar of Eaton. [Charles GOODALL.]

London : 1689. Octavo. Pp. 8. b. t. 1. 168.* "Humph: Hody ex dono autoris Caroli Goodall e Coll: Merton adolescentuli desideratissimi."-MS. note on the Bodleian

copy.

POEMS by a father and a daughter. [Rev. J. A. PROWETT and Miss PROWETT.] Containing memorials of eminent characters and events, heroic and sentimental pieces, religious and moral effusions, dramatic sketches, &c.

London 1845. Octavo. Pp. vi. 433.* [N. and Q., 23 July 1864, p. 74] POEMS by a painter. [Sir J. Noel PATON.]

Edinburgh and London. MDCCCLXI. Octavo.*

POEMS by a parson. [Robert Herbert STORY, D.D., minister at Roseneath.] London: 1863. Octavo.*

POEMS, by a young nobleman, of distinguished abilities, lately deceased particularly, the state of England, and the once flourishing city of London. In a letter from an American traveller, dated from the ruinous portico of St. Paul's, in the year 2199, to a friend settled in Boston, the metropolis of the Western Empire. Also, sundry fugitive pieces, principally wrote whilst upon his travels on the Continent. [By Thomas, Lord LYTTELTON.] London: M. DCC.LXXX. Quarto. Pp. iii, 55.*

POEMS by Alexander Scott, from a manuscript written in the year MDLXVIII. [Edited by David LAING.]

Edinburgh, 1821. Octavo, Pp. xvi. 104. [W., Martin's Cat.]

These poems were printed from Bannatyne's MS. collection, and this is the only collected edition of the author's works. POEMS, by an amateur. [Bernard BARTON.]

London: 1818. Octavo. 10 sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 88, 196.] POEMS by Anthony Pasquin. [John WILLIAMS.] [In two volumes.]

London: [1789.] Duodecimo.*

POEMS by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. [Charlotte, Emily Jane, and Anne BRONTË.]

London: 1846. Octavo.*

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POEMS, by Nobody, Junr. [Thomas HODGSON, a native of Hull.] [Newsam's Poets of Yorkshire, p. 109.] POEMS, by one of the authors of" Poems for youth, by a family circle." [Jane Elizabeth ROSCOE, afterwards Mrs Hornblower.]

London: 1820. Duodecimo. Pp. 1. b. t. 66.* [Bodl.]

POEMS, by R. P. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. [Richard PEERS.]

Oxford: 1667. Quarto. [Bliss' Cat., ii. 33.] Privately printed. Another edition appeared in the same year, with the title, Four small copies of verses upon sundry

occasions.

POEMS by Robert Brazen Esq., F.N.S., S.T.D., O.C., and principal secretary to the celebrated Mr Yorick. [By Colin MACLAURIN.]

Edinburgh: 1801. Octavo. [N. and Q., May 1867, p. 425.]

POEMS, by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman,” “A woman's thoughts ""A life for a life," &c. about women," &c. [Dinah Maria MULOCK.] London, N.D. [1860.] Octavo. Pp. x. 324.* Many of these Poems, extending over a period of ten years, have appeared anonymously in Chambers' Journal and elsewhere. POEMS by the author of "Paul Ferroll." Including a new edition of IX. poems by V, with former and recent additions. [By Mrs. Archer CLIVE.]

London: 1856. Octavo. Pp. iv. 229.* POEMS, by the author of the Sentimental sailor; containing Arthur's seat; Elysium, a dream; Of poetry an epistolary essay. [Thomas MERCER.] 1774. Quarto. [A. Campbell's Introduction to the history of poetry in Scotland, p. 287.]

POEMS by the author of The village curate, and Adriano. [James HURDIS, D.D.]

London: MDCCXC. Octavo.*

POEMS by the author of Uriel. [T. J. de Powis.] Second edition. London: 1858. Octavo. Pp. 72.* POEMS by the late Reverend Dr. Thomas Blacklock; together with an Essay on the education of the blind [by Haüy]. To which is prefixed a new account of the life and writings of the author [by Henry MACKENZIE]. Edinburgh M, DCC, XCIII. Quarto.* [Adv. Lib.]

POEMS by Thomas White, Jun. [Thomas Stewart OMOND, Fellow of St. John's, Oxford.]

Oxford and London: 1876. Octavo. Pp. vii. 230.*

POEMS by three sisters. [Mary-Frances, Ellin-Isabelle, and Margaret-Eleonora TUPPER.]

London: 1864. Octavo.*

[By Fran

POEMS, chiefly devotional.
ces Dorothy CARTWRIGHT.]
London 1835.
Signed F. D. C.
POEMS

Octavo. [Brit. Mus.]

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chiefly relating to children.

By a former curate of Hunslet. [James Akroyd BEAUMONT.] Published for the benefit of the bazaar, holden in the Exchange Rooms, Leeds, June 26th, 1849.

Leeds: 1849. Duodecimo. Pp. 24.*

POEMS chiefly sonnets, by the author of translations from the Italian of Petrarch, Metastasio, and Zappi. [Thomas LE MESURIER.]

Oxford: 1799. Octavo. Pp. ix. 72.*

POEMS consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages. To which are added two essays, I. On the poetry of the Eastern nations. II. On the arts, commonly called imitative. [By Sir William JONES.]

Oxford, MDCCLXXII. Octavo. Pp. 1. b. t. viii. 217.*

POEMS, consisting of tales, fables, epigrams, &c. &c. By Nobody. [James ROBERTSON.]

London: MDCCLXX. Octavo. Pp. xii. 239. [Obituary of European Mag., xxviii. 214.] Ascribed to G. Robinson. [Mon. Rev., xlviii. 413.]

POEMS containing The Indian and
Lazarus. [By John CARNE.]

London: 1820. Duodecimo. [Boase and
Courtney, Bib. Corn., i. 60.]

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Edinburgh 1851. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] Signed W. C.

POEMS from the Arabic and Persian; with notes, by the author of Gebir. [Walter Savage LANDOR.]

London 1804. Quarto. [Gent, Mag., Jan. 1801, p. 59. Mon. Rev., xliv. 331.] POEMS in burlesque; with a dedication

in burlesque to Fleetwood Shepherd, Esquire. [By John DENNIS.]

London: 1692. Quarto. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1895.

POEMS in diuers humors. [By Richard BARNFEILD, Graduate in Oxford.] London, 1598. Quarto. No pagination. * [Bodl.]

POEMS, in English, Scotch, and Latin. [By James GRAHAME.] Octavo.*

Paisley: 1794.

POEMS moral & miscellaneous with a few songs, by a journeyman mechanic. [William CALDER, bookbinder in Edinburgh.]

Edinburgh 1838. Octavo. Pp. 68.* [A. Jervise.]

POEMS (the) of Allan Ramsay. A new edition, corrected, and enlarged; with a glossary. To which are prefixed, a life of the author, from authentic documents [by George CHALMERS]; and remarks on his poems, from a large view of their merits [by Alexander Fraser TYTLER, Lord Woodhouselee]. In two volumes.

London: 1800. Octavo.* [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 2042.]

POEMS (the) of Caius Valerius
Catullus, in English verse; with the
Latin text revised, and classical notes
[by George Frederick NOTT, D.D.]
In two volumes.

London: 1795. Octavo. [W., Lowndes,
Bibliog. Man.]

POEMS (the) of Horace in English prose, by several persons [Alexander BROME] &C.

London: 1665. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1116.]

POEMS on interesting events in the reign of King Edward III. Written in the year MCCCLII. by Laurence Minot. With a preface, dissertations, notes, and a glossary. [By Joseph RITSON.] London: 1795. Octavo. Pp. xliv. 180.* POEMS on serious and sacred subjects, printed only as private tokens of regard, for the particular friends of the author. [By William HAYLEY.] Chichester: Printed at the private press of W. Mason. 1818. Duodecimo. Pp. 97.* "From an original letter of the author, prefixed to the Dyce copy, it appears that these poems were not printed for sale."-Substance of a note by M. E. Sherwell.

POEMS on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed by an eminent author [James HOWELL). Collected and published by SergeantMajor P. F. [Payne FISHER.]

London: 1663. Octavo.

POEMS on several occasions. [By Jonathan SMEDLEY, Dean of Clogher.] London: MDCCXXI. Octavo. Pp. xv. b. t. 176.* [Bodl.]

Author's name in handwriting of Dr. Bliss.

POEMS on several occasions. [By Mrs DIXON.]

Canterbury: MDCCXL. Octavo. Pp. xxvi. b. t. 5. 202.1 [Bodl.]

POEMS on several occasions. [By Roger HOG.]

Edinburgh: 1800. Octavo.* POEMS on several occasions. Thomas Moss.]

[By

London: 1770. Quarto. [Willis' Current notes, 1853, p. 90. Crit. Rev., xxix. 207.]

POEMS on several occasions. [By William HAMILTON, of Bangour.] Glasgow: M.DCC.XLIX. Octavo. Pp. 3b. t. 148.*

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