[Footnote 35: This THOMAS RAWLINSON, who is introduced in the Tatler under the name _Tom Folio_, was a very extraordinary character, and most desperately addicted to book-hunting. Because his own house was not large enough, he hired _London House_, in Aldersgate Street, for the reception of his library; and here he used to regale himself with the sight and the scent of innumerable black letter volumes, arranged in "sable garb," and stowed perhaps "three deep," from the bottom to the top of his house. He died in 1725; and Catalogues of his books for sale continued, for nine succeeding years, to meet the public eye. The following is a list of all the parts which I have ever met with; taken from copies in Mr. Heber's possession. _Part_ 1. _A Catalogue of choice and valuable Books in most Faculties and Languages_: being the sixth part of the collection made by THOS. RAWLINSON, Esq., &c., to be sold on Thursday, the 2d day of March, 1726; beginning every evening at 5 of the clock, by Charles Davis, Bookseller. Qui non credit, eras credat. Ex Autog. T.R. 2. _Bibliotheca Rawlinsoniana_; sive Delectus Librorum in omni fere Lingua et Facultate praestantium--to be sold on Wednesday 26th April, [1726] by Charles Davis, Bookseller. 2600 Numbers. 3. _The Same_: January 1727-8. By Thomas Ballard, Bookseller, 3520 Numbers. 4. _The Same_: March, 1727-8. By the same. 3840 Numbers. 5. _The Same_: October, 1728. By the same. 3200 Numbers. 6. _The Same_: November, 1728. By the same. 3520 Numbers. 7. _The Same_: April, 1729. By the same. 4161 Numbers. 8. _The Same_: November, 1729. By the same. 2700 Numbers. 9. _The Same_: [Of Rawlinson's MANUSCRIPTS] By the same. March 1733-4. 800 Numbers. 10. _Picturae Rawlinsonianae._ April, 1734. 117 Articles. At the end, it would seem that a catalogue of his prints, and MSS. missing in the last sale, were to be published the ensuing winter. N.B. The black-letter books are catalogued in the Gothic letter.] [Footnote 36: "BIBLIOTHECAE BRIDGESIANAE CATALOGUS: or, A Catalogue of the Entire Library of JOHN BRIDGES, late of _Lincoln's Inn_, Esq., &c., which will begin to be sold, by Auction, on Monday the seventh day of February, 1725-6, at his chambers in _Lincoln's Inn_, No. 6." From a priced copy of this sale catalogue, in my possession, once belonging to Nourse, the bookseller in the Strand, I find that the following was the produce of the sale: The Amount of the books L3730 0 0 Prints and books of Prints 394 17 6 ----------- Total Amount of the Sale L4124 17 6