Memoirs of the Life and
Writings of the late Rev._ THOMAS BAKER," Camb. 1864, 8vo.
Let any person examine the catalogue of _Forty-two_ folio
volumes of "MS. collections by Mr. Baker," (as given at the
end of this piece of biography) and reconcile himself, if he
can, to the supposition that the said Mr. Baker did not fall
a victim to the _Book-disease_! For some cause, I do not now
recollect what, Baker took his name off the books of St.
John's College, Cambridge, to which he belonged; but such
was his attachment to the place, and more especially to the
library, that he spent a great portion of the ensuing twenty
years of his life within the precincts of the same:
frequently comforted and refreshed, no doubt, by the sight
of the magnificent LARGE PAPER copies of Walton and Castell,
and of Cranmer's Bible UPON VELLUM!]

[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, 17