Ninety pounds.

_Tewrdannck._ Augsburg, 1519. Thirty-nine pounds.

Walton's _Compleat Angler_. First edition. London, 1653.

Cotton's _Complete Angler_. First edition. London, 1676. Together, one
hundred and ninety-five pounds.

Burns's _Poems_. Kilmarnock, 1786. One hundred and eleven pounds.

The more important of the manuscripts were:--

_Horae B. Mariae Virginis_, written in the thirteenth century on vellum by
an Anglo-Saxon or Scottish scribe. Three hundred and twenty-five pounds.

The First and Second Series of Sir Walter Scott's _Chronicles of the
Canongate_. An autograph manuscript presented by the author to R.
Cadell. One hundred and forty-one pounds.

A collection of valuable and interesting correspondence and memoranda
relating to the Rebellion of 1715, comprising many of the original
letters and despatches from the Earl of Mar, etc. Ninety-nine pounds.

In 1882 Mr. Gibson-Craig issued, in an edition of twenty-five copies,
_Fac-similes of Old Book Binding_ in his collection; and in the
following year a facsimile reprint of the _Shorte Summe of the whole
Catechisme_, by his ancestor John Craig, accompanied by a memoir of the
author by Thomas Graves Law, of the Signet Library. He also printed for
the Bannatyne Club 'Papers relative to the marriage of King James the
Sixth of Scotland with the Princess Anna of Denmark A.D. MDLXXXIX, and
the Form and Manner of Her Majesty's Coronation at Holyroodhouse A.D.
MDXC.'

ALEXANDER WILLIAM, TWENTY-FIFTH EARL OF CRAWFORD, 1812-1880

It is about three hundred years since the founder of the Bibliotheca
Lindesiana died. John Lindsay, the Octavian, better known by his title
of Lord Menmuir, the ancestor of the Earls of Balcarres, had a
distinguished though but brief career. He was not quite forty-seven
years old when he died. During his short though eventful life he took a
leading part in State affairs, being much trusted by his Sovereign, King
James VI. He was a man of varied talents--lawyer, statesman, man of
business, scholar, man of letters, and a poet. He seems to have been
familiar with Greek, and to have corresponded in the Latin language.
Besides these he acquired a knowledge of French, Italian and Spanish. He
accumulated many State papers and letters from distinguished persons
both at home and abroad.[101] These, now known as 'the Balcarres
Papers,' were presented by Colin, Earl of Balcarres, to the Advocates'
Library in 1712. A summary account of