This copy, besides being elegantly bound in morocco, has a fine portrait of the author, proof impression, before the writing.

572. PERCY (Bishop.)—Another copy. The fourth edition. MOROCCO.-London, printed by John Nichols, for F. and C. Rivington, 1794.

573. PRIOR (Matthew).-The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior: now first collected, with Explanatory Notes, and Memoirs of the Author.MOROCCO.-London, 1779.

Two vols. octavo.

£4. 48.

To account for the apparently high price of this, the best edition of Prior, it is requisite to observe, that besides being costly bound, and having the beautiful frontispiece engraved by Sherwin, it has the original drawing by Mortimer, from which that print was copied.

574. PINKERTON (John).-The Bruce; or, the History of Robert I. King of Scotland. Written in Scotish Verse by John Barbour. The first genuine edition, published from a MS. dated 1489; with Notes and a Glossary. Three vols. London, 1790.-Select Scotish Ballads. Two vols. London, 1783.-Scotish Poems, reprinted from scarce editions. With three pieces before unpublished. Three vols. London, 1792.-Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print. But now published from the MS. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland. Comprising Pieces written from about 1420 till 1586. With Large Notes, and a Glossary. Two vols. London, 1786.

These ten volumes are uniformly bound in green morocco, and form a collection of ancient Scotish Poetry, peculiarly excellent, illustrated as each work is, by the learning and indefatigable research of the editor, Mr. Pinkerton, than whom no one has made more strenuous exertions to restore the dormant poësy of our northern brethren to the attention of the present inquiring age.

575. POETICAL BIOGRAPHY.-Biographia Dramatica; containing Historical and Critical Memoirs of British and Irish Dramatic Writers. Originally compiled by D. E. Baker, continued to 1782 by Isaac Reed, and brought down to 1811 by Stephen Jones. Four vols. London, 1812.-The Lives of the Scotish Poets, with Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the early Scotish Drama. By David Irvine. Two vols. Edinburgh, 1810.-The Lives of the most eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works. By Samuel Johnson, Four vols. London, 1783.-Bibliographia Poetica: a Catalogue of the English Poets of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. (By Joseph Ritson). London, 1802.Theatrum Poetarum, or a Compleat Collection of the Poets, especially the most Eminent of all Ages. By Edward Phillips. London, 1675.-The same work, considerably enlarged by Sir S. E. Brydges, Bart. Canterbury, 1800 (Only one volume has yet appeared).-Scanderbeg; or Love and Liberty. A Tragedy. Written by the late Thomas Whincop, Esq. To which are added a List of all the Dramatic Authors, with some Account of their Lives; and of all the Dramatic Pieces ever published in the English Language, to the Year 1747. London, 1747.-The Poetical Register or, the Lives and Characters of all the English Poets. With an Account of their Writings. (By Giles Jacob.) Two vols. London, 1723.-The Lives and Characters of the Ancient Grecian Poets. By Basil Kennet. London, 1697.-The Lives of the most Famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus. By William Winstanley. London, 1687.-The Dramatic Mirror: containing the History of the Stage, from the earliest period to the present time; including a Biographical and Critical Account of

all the Dramatic Writers, from 1660, and also of the most Distinguished Performers from the Days of Shakspeare to 1807, &c. By Thomas Gilliland. Two vols. London, 1808.-The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets. First begun by Mr. Langbain, improv'd and continued down to this Time by a careful Hand. (Charles Gildon). London, printed for Tho. Leigh, &c. (no date).-An Account of the English Dramatick Poets. Or some Observations and Remarks on their Lives and Writings. By Gerard Langbaine. Oxford, 1691.-The Lives of the Roman Poets. By L. Crusius. Two vols. London, 1753.

Twenty-four vols.

£73. 10s.

The above interesting series of Poetical Biography, form twentyfour volumes, which are elegantly and uniformly bound in green morocco. It is scarcely necessary to add that the respective works do not exactly correspond in size, the greater part being octavo, and the remainder duodecimo.-To render the collection still more curious and valuable, it has been carefully illustrated by the insertion of NEARLY EIGHT HUNDRED PORTRAITS, many being by early engravers, and of uncommon occurrence, others are modern copies of scarce prints, and the rest by artists of the present age.

UARLES (Francis).-Emblems by Francis Quarles. [FIRST EDITION.]London, printed by G. M. and sold at Iohn Marriots shope in St. Dunstons Church yard fleetstreet, 1635.

Small octavo, pp. 332.. £10.

This is the first edition, and the present is a very fine copy. The whole of the prints were engraved by Marshall and Simpson: those from the beginning of the third book are exact copies from Hugo; but Hugo himself was not original, as Andrew Alciat, a Milanese Lawyer, published at Paris a volume of Emblems, so early as 1535. In allusion to the merit of these engravings by Marshall, Pope says in his Dunciad, though with great lack of candour:

"here the pictures for the page atone,

And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own."

The dedication by Quarles is inscribed "To my much honoured, and no less truly beloved Friend Edw. Benlowes Esquire." An address to the reader follows; and commendatory verses, in English, by Richard Love, and in Latin, by E. Benlowes.-In this copy occurs, after the Emblems, a brilliant impression of an allegorical print by Marshall, with which are connected some Latin verses by Benlowes-a circumstance that has not been observed in any other copy.

577. QUARLES (Francis).-Emblems by Francis Quarles.-EXTRA.-Cambridge, printed by R. D. (Roger Daniel) for Francis Eglefeild, and are to be sold at the sign of the Marigold in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1643.

£4. 45.

The prefatory matter in this edition corresponds with the first, as above described; but after the Emblems occurs an engraved title " Hieroglyphikes of the life of man," with a dedication "To the right Honourable both in Bloud and Virtue, and most accomplisht Ladie, Mary, Countesse of Dorset, Ladie Governesse of the most Illustrious Charles Prince of great Britain, and James Duke of York," followed by a prose address to the Reader, subscribed Benevolus.-The engravings are by Marshall, and Simpson.

578. QUARLES (Francis).- Emblems by Francis Quarles.—EXTRA.-London, printed for I. Williams and F. Eglsfeild, 1676.

Small octavo, pp. 390. £1. 11s. 6d.

The descriptive account of the preceding article accurately applies to the present, except that the prints are partly copies by an inferior hand, and partly bad impressions of the old ones.

579.

Emblems, Divine and Moral; together with Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man. Written by Francis Quarles.RUSSIA. In the Savoy, printed by Eliz. Nutt, and sold by T. Horn, &c. 1718.

Duodecimo, pp. 382.

£1. 5s.

The contents of this edition do not vary from the former, but the plates have the names of Holmes and Van Hove as the engravers.

"These Emblems of Quarles have had a singular fate: they are fine poems upon some of the most ridiculous prints that ever excited merriment; yet the poems, in which the ore almost equals the dross, 'are neglected, while the prints have been repeatedly republished with new illustrations. In the early part of the last century a clergyman restored them to Hugo, the original owner, and printed with them a dull translation of Hugo's dull verses. They next fell into the hands of some methodist, who be-rhymed them in the very spirit of Sternhold; and this is the book which is generally known by the name of Quarles. In Spain the same prints have appeared with a paraphrase of Hugo's In Portugal they have been twice published; once by a man who has fitted to them a mystical Romance: once with meditations for before and after confession and communion, and stanzas upon the same subjects by Father Anthony of the wounds,

verses.