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Volumes.) London and Edinburgh. 1850-51. New-York, Carter & Brother,
1852.

[J] In his elaborate "Memoirs of Dr. Owen," (p. 345.) Mr. Orme mentions
that "his library was sold in May, 1684, by Millington, one of the
earliest of our book auctioneers;" and adds, "considering the doctor's
taste as a reader, his age as a minister, and his circumstances as a
man, his library, in all probability, would be both extensive and
valuable." Then, in a foot note, he gives some interesting particulars
as to the extent of the early No-conformist libraries, viz., Dr. Lazarus
Seaman's, which sold for L700; Dr. Jacomb's, which sold for L1300; Dr.
Bates's, which was bought for five or six hundred pounds by Dr.
Williams, in order to lay the foundation of Red Cross Street library;
and Dr. Evans's, which contained 10,000 volumes; again subjoining, "It
is probable Dr. Owen's was not inferior to some of these." It would have
gratified the biographer had he known that a catalogue of Owen's library
is still in existence. Bound up with other sale-catalogues in the
Bodleian, is the "Bibliotheca Oweniana; sive catalogus librorum plurimis
facultatibus insignium, instructissimae Bibliothecae Rev. Doct. Viri D.
Joan. Oweni (quondam Vice-Cancellarii et Decani AEdis Christi in Academia
Oxoniensi) nuperrime defuncti; cum variis manuscriptis Graecis Latinis,
&c., propria manu Doct. Patricii Junii aliorumq. conscriptis: quorum
auctio habebitur Londini apud domum auctionariam, adverso Nigri Cygni in
vico vulgo dicto Ave Mary Lane, prope Ludgate Street, vicesimo sexto die
Maii, 1684. Per Eduardum Millington, Bibliopolam." In the Preface, the
auctioneer speaks of Dr. Owen as "a person so generally known as a
generous buyer and great collector of the best books;" and after
adverting to his copies of Fathers, Councils, Church Histories, and
Rabbinical Authors, he adds, "all which considered together, perhaps for
their number are not to be paralleled, or upon any terms to be procured,
when gentlemen are desirous of, or have a real occasion for the perusal
of them." The number of volumes is 2889. For the knowledge of the
existence of this catalogue, and for a variety of curious particulars
regarding it, the Reviewer is indebted to one of the dignitaries of
Oxford, whose bibliographical information is only exceeded by the
obligingness with which he puts it at the command of others, the Rev.
Dr. Macbride, Principa