of Machlinia, Pynson, Wynkyn de Worde, Notary, and other early English
printers. Shakespeare was well represented. The first three folios were
to be found in the library, as well as the first editions of _Lucrece_
and the _Sonnets_, and a large number of the quarto plays. The first
folio and _Lucrece_ realised respectively four hundred and forty pounds
and one hundred and ten pounds. There was also a choice collection of
the works of other writers of the time of Elizabeth and James I. A copy
of the first edition of _Don Quixote_; and a set of the first five
editions of Walton's _Compleat Angler_, which sold for sixty-eight
pounds, also deserve especial notice. A series of autographs in thirteen
folio volumes realised three hundred and twenty-five pounds; and the
sale catalogue contained as many as two hundred and fourteen lots of
autograph letters of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Bacon, Cromwell, and
other celebrities.

Sir William Tite was the author of a 'Report of a Visit to the Estates
of the Honourable Irish Society in Londonderry and Coleraine in the
year 1834,' and of a 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities found in
the Excavations at the New Royal Exchange,' which he published in 1848.
Several of his papers and addresses, which principally treated of
bibliographical or antiquarian subjects, were privately printed. He was
a liberal promoter of all schemes for the advancement of education, and
he founded the Tite Scholarship in the City of London School.

JAMES THOMSON GIBSON-CRAIG, 1799-1886

Mr. James Thomson Gibson-Craig, who was born in March 1799, was the
second son of Mr. James Gibson, the political reformer, who, on
succeeding under entail to the Riccarton estates in 1823, assumed the
name of Craig, and in 1831 was created a baronet. He was educated at the
High School and the University of Edinburgh, and after spending some
time in foreign travel, he became a Writer to the Signet, and joined the
firm afterwards known as Gibson-Craig, Dalziel and Brodies, of
Edinburgh, of which he continued a member until about the year 1875. Mr.
Gibson-Craig was well known for his literary and antiquarian tastes, and
it was principally owing to his exertions that the Historical
Manuscripts of Scotland were reproduced and issued during the time his
brother, Sir William Gibson-Craig, held the office of Lord Clerk
Register. He was a friend of Sir Walter Scott, of Lord Jeffrey, and Lord
Cockburn, and at a later period