PILKINGTON and FUSELI.—(I.) A Dictionary of Painters, from the revival of the art to the present period; by the Rev. M.[atthew] Pilkington, A.M. A new edition, with considerable alterations, additions, an appendix, and an index, by Henry Fuseli, R. A. . . . London: printed by John Crowder, . . . for J. Johnson &c. . . . 1805. (II.) An Illustrative Supplement to Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters; consisting of biographical sketches, and one hundred and thirty-nine portraits; principally taken from the Anecdotes of Painting, &c. by Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: printed for John Stockdale, . . . 1805. 4to, two works in one volume, calf, gilt back, side borders.
Frontispiece-portrait of Fuseli by T. Holloway after T. Lawrence. Seventy-four portraits on fifty-six plates in the first work, and sixty-three portraits on fifty-five plates in the second.
PILKINGTON and FUSELI.—A Dictionary of Painters. 1805. 4to, five volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by Bedford.
Another copy, illustrated by the insertion of seven hundred and seventy-six engravings, comprising portraits of the artists and examples of their work. Fully a third of the plates are in proof condition, one hundred and thirty being on India paper, and they include fine examples of engraving by Dürer, Goltzius, Hollar, Faithorne, Bartolozzi, Crispin de Pass, Edelinck, etc.
PINDAR.—Odes of Pindar, With several other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is added a Dissertation on the Olympick Games; together with Original Poems on several Occasions. By Gilbert West . . . London: Printed for J. Dodsley . . . MDCCLXVI. 12mo, three volumes, citron morocco, gilt back, gilt edges.
Presentation copy from the Princess Charlotte to her sister Elizabeth, with a sonnet in her autograph. Portrait of Pindar engraved by Boitard.
PLANCHÉ, J. R.—See Cunningham, Planché and Collier.
PLAY-BILLS.—1765-1785. Folio, two volumes, cloth.
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.