collection, and perhaps mixing with them as I have endeavoured to do, anecdotes and incidents connected with literature, I might perform neither an useless nor unamusing office. I have certainly specified but very few of Maittaire's literary treasures, and yet I have not proceeded to a fourth part of the volume. Enough, however, must have been said to mark and ascertain the wonderful change which has taken place in the prices of books.

At this sale, Nourse, White, Marsh, Osborne, Bathurst, and Strahan, the popular booksellers of the day, were the principal purchasers. Among private individuals, we find the names of Dr. Nesbit, Dr. Horsman, Sir Francis Drake, Zamboni, Whitehead, and other well known collectors. Such a collection was never before exhibited for public sale, and perhaps never will again.

END OF VOL. V.

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