ovember, 1754, and again on the 7th of April, 1755: lasting
together 57 days. The sale of the _prints_ and _drawings_
continued 14 nights. The _gems_, _bronzes_, _busts_, and
_antiquities_, 8 days.

His books produced L5496 15 0
Pictures 3417 11 0
Prints and drawings 1908 14 0
Coins and medals 1977 17 0
Antiquities 3246 15 0
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Amount of all the sales L16,047 12 0

It would be difficult to mention, within a moderate compass,
all the rare and curious articles which his library
contained--but the following are too conspicuous to be
passed over. The _Spira Virgil_ of 1470, _Pfintzing's
Tewrkdrancs_, 1527, _Brandt's Stultifera Navis_, 1498, and
the _Aldine Petrarch_ of 1501, ALL UPON VELLUM. The large
paper _Olivet's Cicero_ was purchased by Dr. Askew for L14
14_s._ and was sold again at his sale for L36 15_s._ The
King of France bought the editio princeps of _Pliny Senr._
for L11 11_s._; and Mr. Willock, a bookseller, bought the
magnificently illuminated _Pliny by Jenson_ of 1472, for L18
18_s._: of which Maittaire has said so many fine things. The
_French_ books, and all the works upon the _Fine Arts_, were
of the first rarity, and value, and bound in a sumptuous
manner. Winstanley's _Prospects of Audley End_ brought L50.
An amusing account of some of the pictures will be found in
Mr. Beloe's "_Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books_,"
vol. i. 166. 71. But consult also _Nichol's Anecdotes of
Bowyer_, p. 225, &c. Of the catalogue of Dr. Mead's books
there were only six copies printed on LARGE PAPER. See Bibl.
Lort, no. 1149.]

The years 1755-6 were singularly remarkable for the mortality excited
by the BIBLIOMANIA; and the well known names of Folkes,[39] and
Rawlinson,[40] might have supplied a modern Holbein a hint for the
introduction of a new subject in the "_Dance of Death_." The close of
George the Second's reign witnessed another instance of the fatality
of this disease. Henley[41] "bawled till he was hoarse" against the
cruelty of its attack; while his library has informed posterity how
severely and how mortally he suffered from it.

[Footnote 39: "A Catalogue of the entire and valuable
library of MARTIN FOLKES, ESQ., President