of Lord Macaulay; and he was also
intimate with most of the principal Scottish artists and antiquaries of
his time. He died at Edinburgh on the 18th of July 1886. Mr.
Gibson-Craig, who began to collect during his student days, formed an
extensive and valuable library of choice books, many of which were bound
by celebrated binders, and were once to be found in such famous
libraries as those of Grolier, Canevari, Diana of Poitiers, Mary Queen
of Scots, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, De Thou, Count von Hoym,
Longepierre, and Madame de Pompadour. After his death his collection was
sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge in three portions. The first
portion was sold on June the 27th, 1887, and nine following days; the
second on March the 23rd, 1888, and five following days, and on April
6th and eight following days; and the third on November the 15th, 1888,
and two following days. There were altogether nine thousand four hundred
and four lots, and the amount realised was fifteen thousand five hundred
and nine pounds, four shillings and sixpence.

The following are some of the more notable books and manuscripts in the
collection, and the prices obtained for them:--

_Bartholomaei Camerarii de Praedestinatione dialogi tres._ Parisiis, 1556.
Bound in white morocco, the sides blind-tooled with the various emblems
of Diana of Poitiers, and the initial of Henry II., King of France,
surmounted by a crown. In the centre of the upper cover are the words
CONSEQVITVR QVOD CVNQVE PETIT, and on the lower cover NIHIL AMPLIVS
OPTAT. One hundred and forty-six pounds.

_Cronique de Savoye, par Maistre Guillaume Paradin._ Lyon, 1552. This
volume formerly belonged to Mary Queen of Scots. It is in the original
calf binding, and has in the centre of each cover a shield bearing the
arms of Scotland, surmounted by a crown, with a crowned M above, below,
and on each side of them, as well as at the corners of the book, and
also on the panels of the back. Two hundred and sixty-five pounds.

_Larismetique et Geometrie de Estienne de la Roche._ Lyon, 1538. The
binding bears the arms of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, third husband
of Mary Queen of Scots. Eighty-one pounds.

_The XIII. Bukes of Eneados, translated out of Latyne verses into
Scottish metir bi Mayster Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkel, and unkil to
the Erie of Angus._ [W. Copland], London, 1553. Seventy-five pounds, ten
shillings.

_Poliphili Hypnerotomachia._ Aldus, Venetiis, 1499.