llect,
and the books which he subsequently acquired were sold after his death,
partly by auction by Baker and Leigh at their house in York Street,
Covent Garden, on Monday, January 25th, 1773, and the thirteen following
days, and partly in the shop of James Robson, bookseller, in New Bond
Street. Those sold by Baker and Leigh realised two thousand two hundred
and forty-five pounds. A portion of his manuscripts was purchased by the
Earl of Sunderland for one thousand five hundred pounds. Smith's library
was rich in the best and scarcest editions of Latin, Italian and French
authors. It also contained a considerable number of fine manuscripts,
some of them beautifully illuminated, and many valuable books of prints
and antiquities.

About 1727 Smith compiled a catalogue, which was limited to twenty-five
copies, of some of the rarest books in his collection, of which a second
edition with additions was published in 1737. A catalogue of his entire
library was printed at Venice in 1755, and in 1767 an account of his
antique gems in two volumes folio, written by Antonio Francesco Gori,
was published in the same city under the title of _Dactyliotheca
Smithiana_. An edition of Boccaccio's _Decamerone_ was brought out by
Smith in 1729.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 68: _Dictionary of National Biography._]

DR. RICHARD RAWLINSON, 1690-1755

Richard Rawlinson was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Lord Mayor
of London in 1705-6, and younger brother of Thomas Rawlinson the
collector. He was born in the Old Bailey on the 3rd of January 1690,
and, after having received his early education at St. Paul's School and
Eton, matriculated as a commoner of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1708;
but, in consequence of the death of his father, he became a
gentleman-commoner in the following year. He took the degrees of B.A. in
1711, M.A. in 1713, and in 1719 he was created D.C.L. On the 21st of
September 1716 he was ordained deacon, and two days later, priest among
the nonjurors by Bishop Jeremy Collier, in Mr. Laurence's chapel on
College Hill, London.[69] After his ordination he travelled through a
great part of England, and in 1719 paid a visit to France, and
afterwards to the Low Countries, where he was admitted into the
Universities of Utrecht and Leyden. Towards the end of the year he
returned home, but in 1720 he again left England, and spent several
years in France, Germany, Italy, and other parts of the Continent. In
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