PLOMER, Henry R.—See Duff, E. Gordon.

PLUTARCH.—Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Original Greek; with notes, critical and historical; and a new Life of Plutarch. By J. Langhorne, D. D. and W. Langhorne, M. A. . . . London: printed for J. Richardson and Co. &c. . . . 1821. 12mo, eight volumes, half green levant morocco, uncut edges.

Inserted are over fifty plates, by Van der Gucht, Du Guernier, and Giles King after Cheron and Van der Gucht.

POCKET BOOK.—A little pretty Pocket-book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly. With Two Letters from Jack the Giant-Killer; as also a Ball and Pincushion; The Uſe of which will infallibly make Tommy a good Boy, and Polly a good Girl. To which is added, a little song-book, being A New Attempt to teach Children the Uſe of the Engliſh Alphabet, by Way of Diverſion. The first Worcester edition. Printed at Worcester, Maſſachuſetts. By Isaiah Thomas, And sold, Wholeſale and Retail, at his Book-Store. M DCC LXXXVII. 16mo, green levant morocco, gilt back, side compartments in gilt and mosaic of red morocco, doubled with green morocco, gilt borders, red silk guards, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.

Woodcut frontispiece, "Instruction with Delight," and sixty-five cuts in the text.

The present copy contains the leaf of advertisement, H6, and the two final blank leaves, H7 and H8.

Dedicated by the Editor to the Parents, Guardians, and Nurses in the United States of America.

POCKET DIARY. XVIIIth Century. 12mo, old English red morocco, gilt back, sides covered with conventional floral ornaments and insects, silver bosses, gilt edges, with pencil and sheath.

POE, Edgar Allan.—The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American Brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. With an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivers; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British Schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Antarctic Ocean; her capture and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise New York: Harper & Brothers . . . 1838. 12mo, half blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman.

First edition.