of
Bordeaux_, thought to have been printed by Pynson, eighty-one pounds;
_Nurcerie of Names_, by Guillam de Warrino (William Warren) (London,
1581), one hundred pounds; Daye's _Daphnis and Chloe_ (London, 1587),
unique, sixty pounds; _The Three Ladies of London_, by W.R. (London,
1592), seventy-six pounds; _The Phoenix Nest_ (London, 1593),
sixty-four pounds, ten shillings; Chute's _Beawtie Dishonoured_
(London, 1593), one hundred and five pounds; _Maroccus Extaticus, or
Bankes Bay Horse_ (London, 1595), one hundred and ten pounds; the first
five editions of Walton's _Compleat Angler_, one hundred and forty
pounds; and twenty early ballads in black letter, bound in a volume,
eighty-nine pounds.

The more important manuscripts in the collection were _Le Romant des
Trois Pelerinages_, by Guillaume de Guilleville, written on vellum in
the fourteenth century, and ornamented with many illuminations and
drawings, two hundred and ten pounds; _Bartholomaeus De Proprietatibus
Rerum_, vellum, richly illuminated, fourteenth century, ninety-one
pounds; a _Poem on the Lord's Prayer_, by John Kylyngwyke, vellum,
fourteenth century, seventy pounds; _Lyf of Oure Lady_, by John Lydgate,
fifteenth century, written and illuminated on vellum, forty-six pounds;
and _Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis_, fifteenth century, illuminated,
sixty-four pounds.

Some additional manuscripts and books which had belonged to Mr. Corser
were sold after his death, at Manchester, by Capes, Dunn and Pilcher on
December the 13th, 1876, and two following days. These realised one
thousand four hundred and eight pounds, sixteen shillings and sixpence.
Among them was the original manuscript of Cavendish's _Life of Wolsey_,
which fetched sixty guineas.

DAVID LAING, 1793-1878

David Laing, the eminent Scottish antiquary, was the second son of
William Laing, a bookseller in Edinburgh, and was born in that city on
the 20th of April 1793. He was educated at the Canongate Grammar School,
and afterwards attended the Greek classes of Professor Dalzel at the
Edinburgh University.[98] At an early age he was apprenticed to his
father, and in the year 1821 he entered into partnership with him. His
father died in 1832, and David Laing continued to carry on the business
until 1837, when, having been elected librarian to the Society of
Writers to H.M. Signet, he gave it up, and disposed of his stock by
public sale. Laing was Honorary Secretary of the Bannatyne Club