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 Introductory Notice* 
 
 . > N the year 1859, 1 issued a " Tractate " entitled " Biblio- 
 \K< graphical List of the Various Publications by James 
 
 I 
 
 ?JI Wu Maidment, Esquire, Advocate, from the year 1817 to 
 1859," to which I prefixed the following "Preface": — 
 " As so many mistakes are made in regard to the 
 Editorship and Authorship of anonymous publications, the 
 Compiler of this List ventures to think that Bibliographers 
 will not be displeased by his placing before those individuals who 
 take an interest in such matters a Catalogue of the Publications 
 which the gentleman whose name is prefixed has, from time to 
 time, issued from the Press. Most of them are without the Editor's 
 name, several are privately printed, and very many are now rare 
 and difficult to attain. 
 
 " Of the importance of many of the greater proportion there 
 can be little doubt. Reference may in particular be made to the 
 Analecta Scotica, — the Melros Papers, — the Letters and State 
 Papers of the Reign of James VI. — the Scottish Historical Frag- 
 ments. In Genealogy, the Peerage Reports, which were so much 
 relied on in the great cases of the Crawford and Montrose Peer- 
 ages, — the Genealogies of the Saint-Claires, — the Hayes of Tweed- 
 dale, — the Carrick Earldom, — and the Argyle Papers. Nor are the 
 contributions to the lighter literature of the country without their 
 value, — for example, the Scottish Pasquils and Scottish Elegiac 
 Verses, — and the Romances of Rouland and Vernagu, and Otuel. 
 
 " Some of the scarcest volumes are those privately printed. Not 
 unfrequently fault is found by captious critics, that what might be 
 interesting to the public should be kept entirely in the hands of a 
 few favoured persons. We think the observations on this point in 
 
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 vi INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 the Preface to the ' Roxburghiana ' are a complete answer ; for 
 antiquarian works generally will not sell, — although persons will 
 always be found ready to accept them for nothing. 
 
 " Many of the volumes herein recorded are now OUT OF print, 
 and are not likely to be again sent to press. Of some of these, 
 however, I have occasionally good and clean second-hand copies 
 on sale at reasonable prices. 
 
 " In conclusion, I venture to hope, that this accurate catalogue 
 may be found not altogether undeserving of the consideration of 
 bibliophilists." 
 
 The Impression printed of that "Tractate" was very limited, and 
 copies are now rarely to be had. I have therefore — in order to 
 gratify the wishes of a few friends and well-wishers — prepared this 
 new edition, correcting and enlarging it by the additions of the 
 various books which were edited by Mr. Maidment since 1859 up 
 to the period of his death in 1879. 
 
 Mr. Maidment, " The Scotch Literary Antiquary," who passed 
 as an Advocate in 1817, died at his residence, 25 Royal Circus, 
 Edinburgh, on the evening of Friday, the 24th October, 1879, and 
 his remains were interred in the Dean Cemetery. 
 
 The following notices of his death appeared in the Edinburgh 
 Courant of the 25th, and in the Daily Review of the 27th October, 
 1879 :— 
 
 " Death of Mr. James Maidment : — Our readers will learn with regret 
 this morning that Mr. James Maidment, the well-known antiquarian littera- 
 teur, and the oldest member of the Scotch bar, died last night at his 
 residence in Royal Circus. He was the descendant of a Northumberland 
 family, and an ancestor on the mother's side was the celebrated Dutch 
 patriot, John Van Olden Barnevelt. He was born in London towards the 
 end of last century, his father having been a solicitor there. Mr. Maidment 
 was called to the Scotch bar in 1817. Early in life he evinced a taste for 
 literary pursuits of an antiquarian nature, which continued with him to the end. 
 The tendency of his mind was similar to that of Sir Walter Scott, and it was 
 his fortune to attract the novelist's attention. An intimacy, indeed, prevailed 
 between them which led not only to considerable literary intercourse, but also 
 to cordial social relations. Mr. Maidment's first publication goes back for at 
 least fifty, if not nearly sixty, years ; and throughout his whole life he was con- 
 tinually adding to the stores of antiquarian literature, until at last his name may 
 be said to have become associated with as long a list of publications of that 
 description as any in Europe. He was an intimate friend of the late Mr. Riddell, 
 the most profound of all genealogical antiquarians, and after his death he cer- 
 tainly took the position of being the first advocate in Scotland in cases involving 
 genealogical inquiries. Mr. Maidment, as a peerage lawyer, had only one equal.
 
 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. vii 
 
 He published in 1840 ' Reports of Claims preferred to the House of Lords in 
 the cases of Cassillis, Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn Peerages.' At a later 
 period he took a specially prominent position in the Mar Peerage case, and his 
 paper in connection with it ably pleaded the claim of Mr. Goodeve Erskine. 
 His opinions on general legal cases were also regarded as sound, but his rhetoric 
 was by no means equal to his diction. In the days when written pleadings were 
 more frequent than now in the Court of Session, those which came from the pen 
 of Mr. Maidment bore evidence to the great ability of their author. 
 
 "Amongst Mr. Maidment's literary efforts in more recent years may be 
 mentioned 'The Dramatists of the Restoration,' which was edited by him for 
 our townsman, Mr. Paterson, with the assistance of Mr. W. H. Logan. The 
 work extended to no fewer than fourteen volumes octavo. He also edited 
 ' Scottish Ballads,' illustrative of the history of Scotland, a work in two volumes, 
 which was published in 1868; 'A Book of Scotch Pasquils,' published in 
 1869; and a 'Packet of Pestilent Pasquils,' issued in the same year. At an 
 earlier period he contributed to Thomson's Border Miscellany, a periodical 
 edited by his friend Mr. Logan, then in Berwick-on-Tweed ; edited the ' Rox- 
 burghe Revels' and other relative papers, including answers to the attack on 
 the memory of the late Joseph Haslewood, F.S.A., with specimens of his literary 
 productions, and was the author or editor of many other publications, including 
 comments on his own genealogical collection. For almost all of these a price is 
 now paid at least three-fold that at which they could at one time be bought, and 
 even then the works were of an expensive character. With tastes such as Mr. 
 Maidment possessed he was an extensive collector as well as author, and his 
 large and spacious house in Royal Circus is filled with books and prints of the 
 most curious and recherche character. 
 
 " The deceased gentleman was latterly engaged in preparing for the Earl of 
 Crawford and Balcarres an account of his genealogical collections, one of the 
 most extensive in the kingdom. He had further on hand the Duffus Peerage 
 case, to which he was devoting himself for a claimant in England. 
 
 " Although Mr. Maidment had reached the advanced age of eighty-six or eighty- 
 seven, his memory continued unimpaired to the last. The recollection he had of 
 events that took place during his prolonged life, together with the most minute 
 of his literary, antiquarian, and other investigations, struck with amazement all 
 who had intercourse with him. His intellect was perfectly clear, and every 
 quality that went to constitute a man of distinguished parts continued in the 
 most unclouded condition. Though he had latterly to contend with the defici- 
 ency of impaired sight, brought on, it is supposed, by his deciphering of old 
 parchments, he continued an ardent reader. He was much affected by the loss 
 of a promising daughter several years ago, and from that time was confined to 
 the house. A kind-hearted and amiable gentleman, he peacefully, as he had 
 lived, slept away last night, about half-past eight o'clock. 
 
 " The wife of Mr. Maidment died in 1862. He is survived by a son." — 
 
 Edinbihrgh Courant. 
 
 "Death of Mr. James Maidment, Advocate : — On Friday night there died, 
 at his residence in Royal Circus, the oldest member of the Scottish bar — Mr. 
 James Maidment, well known also in literary circles. Born in London, where 
 his father was a solicitor, he was called to the Scotch bar in 1817, and shortly 
 thereafter, on account of his antiquarian and literary tastes, he attracted the 
 attention and friendship of Sir Walter Scott. In genealogical inquiries he was 
 not surpassed, and accordingly in such matters in the Court of Session his 
 services were frequently required. In 1840 he published his reports of claims 
 preferred in the House of Lords in the cases of Cassillis, Sutherland, Spynie, and 
 Glencairn Peerages. Afterwards he pleaded the claim of Mr. Goodeve Erskine
 
 viii INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 to the Mar Peerage. Among other publications, beside ' The Dramatists of the 
 Restoration,' which he edited along with Mr. W. H. Logan, he edited ' Scottish 
 Ballads,' illustrative of the history of Scotland — a work in two volumes which 
 was published in 1868 ; 'A Book of Scotch Pasquils,' published in 1869 ; and 
 a ' Packet of Pestilent Pasquils,' issued in the same year. At an earlier period 
 he contributed to Thomson's Border Miscellany — a periodical edited by his friend 
 Mr. Logan, then in Berwick-on-Tweed ; edited the ' Boxburghe Revels ' and 
 other relative papers, including answers to the attack on the memory of the late 
 Joseph Haslewood, F.S.A., with specimens of his literary productions, and was 
 the author or editor of many other publications, including comments on his own 
 genealogical collection. Mr. Maidment, who is survived by a son, was eighty- 
 six years of age." — Daily Review. 
 
 In the month of May, 1869, there was sold by Messrs. Sotheby> 
 Wilkinson & Hodge, Auctioneers, " a portion of the library of a 
 well-known Scotch antiquary," which was believed to have been 
 that of Mr. Maidment. It produced the sum of £360, 2s. 6d. 
 
 Mr. Maidment 's extensive, curious, and valuable library, including 
 rare old engravings and other articles of vertu, &c, were disposed 
 of by Messrs. Thomas Chapman & Son, Auctioneers, Edinburgh, 
 during the months of April, May, and October, 1880. His complete 
 set of the " Bannatyne Club " Publications was, it is understood, 
 sold privately to the " Mitchell Library," Glasgow. 
 
 Mr. Maidment's collection of books regarding the Peerage, 
 and relative MS. collections, including claims to Peerages, were 
 purchased by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres upon a mutual 
 valuation for the sum of £227, 10s., in the month of July, 1880. 
 These are now in the library at Haigh Hall, Wigan. 
 
 In " Notes and Queries" (8th November, 1879) there appeared 
 the following notice of the late James Maidment : — 
 
 " It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death of this eminent 
 Scottish lawyer and accomplished antiquary, which took place on the 24th 
 ultimo. Mr. Maidment's two little volumes on Peerages of Scotland are looked 
 upon as among the highest authorities on the subject, while his numerous 
 publications connected with early Scottish literature and history are highly 
 prized by all students of those interesting branches of learning. Finally, we 
 may add that among the frequent and valuable contributors to 'N. and Q.' 
 there were few who had a greater claim to the gratitude of its readers than our 
 kind and learned friend, James Maidment." 
 
 In order to make this work as interesting and complete as 
 possible, I subjoin the following notice on this "distinguished 
 literary antiquarian and genealogist," by James Hardy, Esq., the 
 Secretary, as recorded in the "Proceedings of the Berwickshire 
 Naturalists' Club," vol. ix. page 191 : —
 
 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. ix 
 
 " James Maidment, Esq., Advocate. — While the Club in its original con- 
 stitution embraced both the studies of Natural Science and Antiquities, much 
 more prominence has been allotted in its obituary notices to those of its dis- 
 tinguished members who were naturalists, than to those who were equally pro- 
 found antiquarians. As an instance of such partiality, we have passed by Sir 
 James Simpson, as also some others ; but fortunately a studious life is often a 
 long one, and we have not many such deprivations to record. One eminent 
 man we have recently lost, one known to very few among us, who probably 
 never attended a Club meeting, never with buoyant companions traversed the 
 hill-sides, looked out to sea from the giddy cliffs, pondered by the lone barren 
 beaches, tracked the romantic streams, or penetrated the remote glens and deep 
 woodland retreats of the Border- land ; never penned a paper for the ' Proceed- 
 ings ; ' never picked up one of the beautiful wild flowers of the Border, nor 
 listened charmed to the song of its free-throated warblers, hunted after its 
 insects, or sought out any other of the varied components of its Fauna ; never 
 hammered a rock, exposed a fossil, or sketched a section ; never even viewed its 
 ruinous castles, and half obliterated encampments, or the luxurious environ- 
 ments of its modern mansions ; or traced on wild moors and craggy wastes the 
 remains of its ancient, forgotten people ; was neither meteorologically nor hygro- 
 metrically observant ; never even thought that it was a matter of obligation in 
 a member to perform any of all these open or private manifestations of interest 
 in the Club's aims and objects ; but with quiet and unostentatious approval 
 adhered to us for a long series of years, contented to observe that at least some 
 others were busy, bringing free-will and not tasked offerings, and that the 
 results, although not particularly brilliant or new, had at least a certain value ; 
 and that as the years advanced the institution was still maintained in good 
 heart and in favourable reputation. This was Mr. James Maidment, the friend 
 of Sir Walter Scott, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Robert Pitcairn, John Riddell, 
 and others of a bygone period, famous as literary devotees, lovers of rare books, 
 or proficients in genealogical inquiries. 
 
 '•' The son of a London solicitor, Mr. Maidment was born there towards the 
 close of the last century, and, like his father, chose the law as his profession ; 
 having, on the adoption of Edinburgh as a residence, become a member of the 
 Faculty of Advocates. It was, however, as an antiquarian litterateur that he 
 was best known ; and it was probably in connection with such pursuits that he 
 formed a friendship with Sir Walter Scott, which was only severed by the 
 novelist's death. 
 
 " Mr. Maidment, at the time of his death, was the last remaining of the 
 twenty-five members who originally constituted the Bannatyne Club in the year 
 1823. He was also an active participant in the Abbotsford Club, established, 
 like the Bannatyne, for the publication of literary rarities ; and he contributed 
 to the works of the Spottiswoode Society. 
 
 " Mr. Maidment's publications were very numerous, and only printed in small 
 numbers of copies ; almost every one of them is now out of print. Nearly all 
 his works were published through the medium of Mr. John Stevenson, anti- 
 quarian bookseller — Sir Walter Scott's ' True Jock ' — or his son, Mr. Thomas 
 G. Stevenson. Mr Stevenson drew up and issued in the year 1859 'A Biblio- 
 graphical List of the Various Publications by James Maidment, advocate, Edin- 
 burgh, from the year 1817 to 1859, inclusive,' in royal octavo. This has, without 
 acknowledgment, been transferred to the Appendix to ' Lowndes' Manual '—see 
 Bohn's Edition. As Mr. Maidment's life is written in his works, I have obtained 
 Mr. Stevenson's consent to reproduce the list, with subsequent additions and 
 particulars from his personal acquaintance with his writings. Two works, how- 
 ever, are excepted, on the authority of Mr. W. H. Logan, as being his produc- 
 tions, and not Mr. Maidment's — viz., No. 24 of Lowndes' List, ' West Digges' 
 Correspondence with Mrs. Ward ;' and No. 36, 'Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, 
 Dramatist.'
 
 x INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 " Mr. Maidment was a contributor to ' Notes and Queries.' In one of his 
 notices in particular, I observed that botb he and Mr. Logan had confounded 
 Burnniouth, a locality in the ancient Ettrick Forest — an old mustering ground 
 for Scottish armies — with the modern fishing hamlet of Burnniouth, near Ber- 
 wick. The inference deduced from this mistake — that the country between 
 Burnmouth and Berwick was formerly covered with wood — has no foundation 
 whatever. Mr. Maidment's books and collections of papers were much enriched 
 by annotations drawn from the store-house of his vast experience. 
 
 " Mr. Maidment was considered as an authority on genealogical matters. 
 Among other fruits of his labours in this field were ' Reports of Claims preferred 
 to the House of Lords in the cases of Cassillis, Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn 
 Peerages.' More recently he prepared a statement of the case of Mr. Goodeve 
 Erskine, in connection with that gentleman's claim to the Earldom of Mar. 
 In the Annandale Peerage case, now being litigated, the evidence of Mr. Maid- 
 ment, and of Dr. David Laing, both disenabled by the infirmities of age from 
 appearing personally, was taken by commission at their own residences. 
 
 " In the same line of studies, he had just finished before his death a curious 
 volume, undertaken at the instigation of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, 
 being the first of Notices of Peerage Cases, in 4to, forming the contents of the first 
 seven volumes of a large collection of peerage cases which he had gathered — the 
 entire collection now passing into the hands of his Lordship. There are only one 
 hundred copies of this book printed at the private expense of the Earl. Mr. Maid- 
 ment never finished his preface, for which, during his illness, he had taken notes. 
 
 " Mr. Maidment became a member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 
 28th June, 1859, having continued in the membership for twenty years. 
 
 "About 1848, or subsequently, his mother occupied the mansion-house of 
 Tweedhill, and Mr. Maidment often resided there. He appears then to have 
 delighted in private and theatrical representations. There is a short account 
 by him of Hutton Hall, on the Whitadder, which is perhaps the sole written 
 memorial of his Border visits. It refers to an early charter of resignation and 
 re-investment in the lands of ' Hutton-hawe,' to George Ker of Samuelston, 
 from William, Earl of Douglas, &c, dated at Edinburgh, 11th January, 1451, 
 in which there is a very minute specification of heirs of entail, down to eight 
 degrees of substitutionaries. Mr. Charles Watson, Dunse, acquired the charter 
 at the sale of Mr. Maidment's library, and from Mr. M.'s remarks accompanying 
 it, I may for its local interest preserve the following extract : — 
 
 " ' The present house of Hutton-hall was not erected till a later period. It is now 
 falling to ruin, but at one time must have been a fine baronial residence. Some of 
 the trees which are adjacent are evidently of considerable antiquity, and may rival 
 those at Bemerside, the seat of the family " De Haga," which are celebrated for their 
 beauty. Notwithstanding the careful entail and the number of substitutes, Hutton- 
 hall long since passed from the Kers. Some forty or fifty years ago the estate 
 belonged to one of the Johnstones — a welbknown Border family. Upon this gentle- 
 man's death, it was sold. Since then, the mansion-house, not being inhabited, has 
 been permitted to go to ruin, and one portion of it has fallen in.' 
 
 " Mr. Maidment died at his residence, 25 Royal Circus, Edinburgh, on the 
 evening of the 24th October, 1879, and his remains were interred in the Dean 
 Cemetery. 
 
 " His extensive library of rare books, containing as catalogued 5059 works, 
 with a miscellaneous assortment over and above, was sold in May, 1880, by 
 auction, in Edinburgh — fifteen days being occupied in its disposal. Large prices 
 were obtained — the proceeds of the fourteen days for the catalogued series being 
 iM499, Is 6d."
 
 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 XI 
 
 In the Appendix I have given the notices of the sale of Mr. 
 Maidment's library, as recorded in the Edinburgh Courant and 
 the Scotsman newspapers. 
 
 In bringing these materials together, I found them to be more 
 abundant than I expected. When I made known my project to 
 one or two literary friends, they were pleased to say that to 
 readers and inquirers the proposed list would be found very useful. 
 
 I shall be amply rewarded for the pains bestowed on this com- 
 pilation — truly a labour of love — should it be the means of stimu- 
 lating even a very few readers to become acquainted with the 
 historical and antiquarian editorial labours of James Maidment. 
 
 The Impression has been limited to One Hundred Copies 
 for Private Circulation. 
 
 Edinburgh, 22 Frederick Street, 
 April, 1883.
 
 &ijc iSibliograpfrs 
 
 OF 
 
 JAMES MA1DMENT, Esq., 
 
 ADVOCATE, EDINBURGH. 
 
 THESIS. — Disputatio Juridica, " De Instructo vel Instrumento 
 Legato." Sm. 4to. Edinburgh, 1817 
 
 This Tract was dedicated to " Kichard Woolley, Esq. of Whitehouse, Dairy, 3rd 
 
 June, 1817." 
 
 PRYMEROSE (DAVID, Advocate), Scotland's Complaint upon the 
 Death of our late Soveraigne King James, of most happie memorie. 
 (In verse, dedicated to John Earle of Marre.) Reprinted from the 
 Edition of 1625 printed by John Wreittoun, Edinburgh. 4 to 
 
 [Edinburgh, 1817] 
 83" Only Ten Copies were Printed for Presents. 
 
 RAID OF RUTHVEN.— Ane Declaratioun of the iust and necessar 
 
 causis, moving vs of the Nobilitie of Scotland, vthers ye kings Ma- 
 
 jesteis faithfvl svbjectis, to repair to his Hienes presence, and to 
 
 remane with him, &c. <kc. H Derectit from Striuiling, with speciall 
 
 command and licence to be prentit, anno 1582. — New Edition, with 
 
 Preface and Notes. Sm. 8vo. [Edinburgh, Laing, 1822] 
 
 "This Declaration of the Nobility against the Duke of Lennox and the Earl of 
 Arran, is a remarkably scarce tract, and was Reprinted from a copy supposed to 
 to be unique. It is valuable, both as an interesting historical document and as a 
 curious specimen of the Scotish language at the time." 
 
 X5T Forty-five Copies were Printed for Sale, and Two on Vellum. 
 
 TWO ANCIENT BALLADS.— Robin Hood's Courtship with Jack 
 Cade's Daughter ; and the Frieris' Tragedy. Aberdeen : Published 
 and Sold by William Robertson. 8vo. Pp.16. [Edinburgh, 1822] 
 
 " The place of publication was purposely falsified ; and the Ballads were printed 
 for the purpose of testing the knowledge of a literary friend [Robert Pitcairn], who 
 believed that he never could be imposed upon by a fictitious ballad. Not above a 
 dozen C0PU5S WERE printed. One of these having found its way to London, has been
 
 2 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 
 
 reprinted, with a beautiful illustration, by Mr. Gutch, in his very interesting collection, 
 'A Lyttel Geste of Robin Hood, 1847,' as a genuine Scotish ballad. The Frieris' 
 Tragedy has not been reprinted : it was written by a member of the Society of Writers 
 to the Signet, whose name it is not necessary to mention." 
 
 NUG^E DERELICTS quas colligerunt J. M. et R. P. [A Collec- 
 tion of Eighteen Tracts, privately printed, at various times, by Mr. 
 James Maidment, Advocate, and Robert Pitcairn, W. S.] Roy. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1822 
 
 Sir Walter Scott, in a Letter to Mr. Pitcairn, 22nd January, 1823, describes this 
 collection as "Your curious and invaluable publication." Only Six Complete Copies 
 of these Tracts are now supposed to exist : One at Abbotsford ; one in the British 
 Museum ; Mr. Thomas Thomson's copy was purchased by the Right Hon. Thomas 
 Grenville ; Mr. Robert Pitcairn's by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton ; 
 Mr. James Burn's, W.S., by John Whitefoord Mackenzie, W.S. ; and Mr. James 
 Maidment's copy was purchased at the sale of his library, 1880, by Messrs. Kerr 
 & Richardson, stationers, Glasgow, for the sum of Fifteen Pounds and Ten 
 Shillings. The following list of contents may be deemed interesting : — 1. Inventory, 
 of Arbuthnot Title-deeds from 1206 to 1483. 2. Charta, Comes de Buchan, Roberto 
 de Warderobe, ante 1233. 3. Conformatio Alexandri Regis. 4. Letter of Pardon, 
 by Edward III. to Cecil Ridgeway, 1358. 5. Appendix to ditto. 6. Charter, by 
 Magistrates of Edinburgh to Robert de Preston, 1454. 7. Procuratory to Rosse of 
 the Hawkehead, 1466. 8. Battayle of Flodden. 9. Appendix to ditto. 10. Compt 
 of ye Geir of the Abbacie of Lindoris^ 1513. 11. Heraldic Verses, 1565. 12. In- 
 wentor of Guids of Dame Elizabeth Fleming, 1578. 13. Resignation by Lord Binning, 
 1614. 14. Lord Dunkeld's Prophecy. 15. Dying Words of Haxton of Rathillet, 1680 
 16. Excerpt from Inventar of Crown Donations, 1702. 17. Memoir of Robert, 6th 
 Baron Balfour of Burleigh. 18. Appendix to ditto, 1578. 
 
 A NORTH COUNTRIE GARLAND. [A CoUection of Ancient 
 Ballads, never before printed]. 18mo. Edinburgh, 1824 
 
 William Motherwell, in his Introduction to "Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern," 
 1827, remarks that this small and " slender volume makes considerable additions to 
 our Catalogue of Ancient Ballads." In this volume there appeared for the first time, 
 " Lord Thomas Stuart, the Burning of Frendraught (a Ballad supposed by Ritson 
 to have been lost), Lord Salton and Auchanachie, Bonny John Seton, Burd Helen 
 and Young Tamlene, and Eppie Morrie." This collection was reprinted in 1868, and 
 forms No. II. of the series entitled "Four Books of Choice Old Scotish Ballads." 
 
 B3T Thirty Copies were Printed for Presents. 
 
 EXCERPT A SCOTICA— [A Collection of Twenty-nine short Pieces, 
 Illustrative of Scottish Affairs]. 8vo. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1825 
 
 "The small fugitive pieces in this volume were given away, so that not half-a- 
 dozen complete copies are in existence. Many of the articles are from MSS. in the 
 British Museum ; and one in particular, which is especially curious, is a ' List of 
 the Nobility of Scotland in 1595,' which had been partially injured by fire, and which 
 tends to show that the recent decision in the Hemes Peerage is a sound one." 
 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for the sum of Eight Pounds. 
 
 PITTILLOCH'S (ROBERT, Advocate), Tracts, Legal and Historical, 
 1659-1689. Reprinted from the Original Editions, with an Intro- 
 ductory Notice. Sm. 4to. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1827 
 
 "The principal value of this collection of fugitive pieces, consists in the curious and 
 valuable information which they contain illustrative of our national history. Inde-
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 3 
 
 pendently of their importance in this respect, the Tracts possess the additional inter- 
 est of preserving notices, not otherwise to be found, relative to various eminent 
 Scotchmen." — Pittilloch was Solicitor-General during the Commonwealth. 
 
 B3T Impression limited to Forty Copies on Small, and Four on Large Paper. 
 
 SCOTISH PASQUILS or LAMPOONS, now first printed from the 
 Original Manuscripts, with Illustrative Notices and Notes. 3 vols. 
 12mo. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1827-28 
 
 "These Scotish pasquils give ample proof that there was no lack of satirical talent 
 in Scotland. Some of the articles are exceedingly clever, and to the point. They 
 are principally directed against the opponents of the House of Stuart. One of the 
 most remarkable of the pieces, is the satire upon the family of Stairs, or Stair, as it is 
 now styled. In it will be found the incidents of which Sir Walter Scott has made so 
 admirable an use in his Bride of Lammermoor. In the new edition of his Romances, 
 Sir Walter refers 'to the curious little volume of Pasquils,' as containing 'these 
 highly scurrilous and abusive verses,' the authorship of which he ascribes to no less a 
 person than the Lord Justice-Clerk Hamilton of Whytelaw (vol. xiii. p. 246). Two 
 other volumes of Pasquils subsequently appeared, fully as interesting as the first one. 
 The notes and explanations are numerous, and evince both the great labour and 
 research of the Editor. It should be noticed, that a very severe epigram on Lord 
 Justice-Clerk Whytelaw is to be found only in a few copies, having subsequently 
 been expunged. The two printed in most copies are quite severe enough in all con- 
 science. The Bibliomaniac will have great pleasure in being informed of the great 
 improbability of this collection ever coming into general circulation. The Limited 
 Impression printed, and the way in which the greater proportion of these have already 
 been disposed of, must necessarily confine it to the cabinets of the curious." 
 
 83T Impressions limited to Sixty Copies on Small, and Fifteen on Large Paper. 
 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for the sum of Five Poundsand 
 Fifteen Shillings. 
 
 RELIQUIAE SCOTIOffi: Scotish Remains, in Prose and Verse, 
 from Original MSS. and Scarce Tracts. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1828 
 
 " In this Collection will be found two Letters from John Pinkerton, written in his 
 most abusive manner, to George Paton the antiquary — Two Bonds of Manrent — 
 various Poetical Scraps from Original MSS. — an Account of the Witches of Kilernan 
 — and various equally amusing odds and ends." 
 
 83T Only Fourteen Copies were made op, and Four on Thick Paper. 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for the sum of Four Guineas. 
 
 TEMPLARIA : Papers relative to the History, Privileges, and Posses- 
 sions of the Scotish Knights Templar, and their successors, the 
 Knights of St John of Jerusalem, &c. (Four Parts.) Sm. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1828-29 
 
 " The Impression of each part was restricted to Twenty-Four Copies on Small, 
 and Two on Large Paper, and as these were printed in small fascicule — some in single 
 leaves — the work is seldom found complete, and consequently ranks among the very 
 scarcest of Scotish privately-printed volumes." The following collation of a perfect 
 copy may be useful : — " Information for Ross of Auchlossin, pp. 11. — Information for 
 John Lord Torphichen, pp. 8. — Charter by King James IV., pp. 8. — Account of the 
 Templars by Father Hay, pp. 10. — Letters of Replegiation by James Lord Torphichen, 
 pp. 2. — Claim for Jamea Lord Torphichen to the Regality of the Barony of Torphichen,
 
 4 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAID ME NT. 
 
 Pp. 12. — Charta Magistri Hospitalis, S. Jo. Hierios, Digneto Scott, pp. 2.— Commission 
 b y James, the First Lord Torphichen, to Robert Lyndsay of Dunrod, pp. 2. — Thomas, 
 Lord Binning, his Instrument of Resignation, pp. 4. — Proceedings in the Claim for 
 John Hamilton, Advocate, p. 10." 
 
 Note — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for the sum of Nine Pounds and 
 Five Shillings. 
 
 GASCOIGNE (GEORGE), The Wyll of the Deuill, with his Ten 
 Detestable Commaundementes, directed to his Obedient and Accursed 
 Children, &c. Reprinted with a Prefatory Notice. 18mo. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1828 
 
 "A very curious performance, and merits preservation, as a severe, but tolerably 
 just satire upon existing habits. It derives no little interest from its minute 
 catalogue of the vices of the times." 
 
 s^ Impression limited to Forty Copies. There were Two Copies on Vellum. 
 
 A BANQUET OF DAINTIES FOR STRONG STOMACHS. [A 
 Collection of Scottish Satirical, &c, Poems about the beginning of the 
 Eighteenth Century, from Myln's MSS.]. 18mo. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1828 
 
 This was a joint publication of- Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and James 
 Maidment. The Impression was limited to a few copies chiefly for presents. 
 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Four Pounds and Ten Shillings. 
 
 MEMORIALS OF THE FAMILY OF ROW, viz.— The Red- 
 shankes Sermon : Preached at St. Giles' Church in Edinburgh, by a 
 Highland Minister. — A Cupp of Bon-Accord, or Preaching, by Mr. 
 James Row, sometyme Minister at Strowan, preacht by him at 
 Edenburgh, in Saint Geiles' Church, with an Introductory Notice, 
 Notes, &c. Sm. 4 to. Edinburgh [Steveiison], 1828 
 
 " This volume contains a copy of the celebrated sermon — so often noticed — 
 called the 'Pockmanty Sermon,' and which, as a specimen of the style indulged in 
 by Scotish Calvinistic divines, has been so much ridiculed by Lutherans. The 
 genuineness of the sermon is apparently well authenticated." 
 
 &W Forty Copies were printed on Small, and Twelve on Large Paper. 
 
 DAVIDSON'S (REV. JOHN, Regent in St. Leonard's College, and 
 afterwards Minister of Salt-Preston), Poetical Remains, 1573-1595, 
 Viz. — I. A Dialogue betwixt a Clerk and a Courteour, concerning 
 the state of Parish Kirks in Scotland. II. Ane Breif Commendatiovn 
 of Vprichtnes, amplifyit chiefly be that notabill document of Goddis 
 michtie protectioun, in preseruing His maist vpricht seruand, Johne 
 Knox. III. A Memorial of the Life and Death of Two worthye 
 Christians, Robert Campbel of the Kinyeancleugh, and his wife Eliz- 
 abeth Campbel. Now for the first time collected together, with a 
 Biographical Account of the Author, and various Illustrative Papers. 
 Sm. 8vo. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1829 
 
 " Davidson's Poetical Remains, until collected together in this volume, were rare 
 to excess. A contemporary and friend of Knox — a divine of great eminence, and a
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 5 
 
 poet of no mean powers — he did not merit the oblivion to which, until recently, he 
 was consigned. One of his works has eluded the vigilance of Bibliomaniacs — his 
 dramatic interlude, representing the Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh — its capture — 
 and the hanging of the captain in command, — which was performed with the 
 approbation of the pious John Knox, at the marriage of Mr John Colvin. This piece 
 James Melville ' saw playit in Mr. Knox's presence,' in 1572. What a singular 
 curiosity this would be — a play under the patronage of John Knox ! " 
 
 S^ Impression limited to Forty Copies. 
 
 LETTERS FROM JOSEPH RITSON TO GEORGE PATON 
 
 (late of the Custom-House, Edinburgh) ; to which is added, A (severe) 
 Critique by John Pinkerton upon " Ritson's Scottish Songs ;" with a 
 Preface and Notes. Sm. 8vo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1829 
 
 " These letters contain some curious literary and antiquarian notices, with 
 particulars as to the Shakespeare forgeries, which at the time (1792-95) were making 
 a great noise." 
 
 S^ One Hundred Copies printed. 
 
 NUG^E SCOTICLE : [A Collection of Twenty-two separate brochures], 
 Miscellaneous Papers Illustrative of Scottish Affairs, m.d.xxxv.- 
 m.dcc.lxxxi. 8vo. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1829 
 
 The following quotation from the Preface may not be unacceptable : — " The 
 fugitive verses brought together in the present volume have been procured as occasion 
 offered, from various quarters, and sent to press as they came to hand. Among the 
 more important portions of the collection, may be mentioned the notices regarding 
 the early Drama in Scotland, taken from sources generally inaccessible. The excerpts 
 from Sir John Foulis' Note Books, which are peculiarly valuable, from the light they 
 throw on the habits and domestic economy of a Scotish gentleman of rank, towards 
 the end of the seventeenth century. The proceedings in the attempt by James VI. 
 to impose upon the burghs the expense occasioned by his procuring the death of 
 Stercovius, who had libelled the Scotish nation, and the curious extract from the 
 Inventory of the Papers of the Wigton Family." There is also included the Letter of 
 Dr. Robertson, offering his American Collection to the Faculty of Advocates. This offer 
 was rejected, for the sapient reason that it was a waste of money, as the Faculty had 
 got the History. It would be, quoth the leading opponent of the purchase of the 
 papers, "as if a party who had just partaken of a delicious pudding, was to eat the 
 shells of the eggs which had been used in its composition." 
 
 Sixty Copies of the single tracts were printed ; but, from the way they were 
 distributed as they issued from the press, it is believed not more than twenty complete 
 sets are extant. 
 
 && This Volume was jointly Edited by James Matdment, George Eitchie 
 Kinloch, and Charles Baxter. 
 
 Note. — Mr Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Four Pounds and Two Shillings. 
 
 COLLEDGE OF JUSTICE : A Representation to the High Court of 
 Parliament, of some of the Most Palpable Grievances in the Colledge 
 of Justice, both as to its Constitution and Administration, and several 
 Members thereof. Sm. 4to. Reprinted, Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1829 
 
 The Impression op this was limited to a very Few Copies. 
 
 PRIVATE LETTERS [From Lord Pollock, Montgomekie of 
 Langshaw, Lord Grange, Lord Polwarth, Earl of Linlithgow, 
 
 B
 
 6 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAID ME NT. 
 
 Countess of Fauconberg, &c, principally to the Rev. Robert 
 "SYodrow, the Historian], now first printed from the Original Manu- 
 scripts, m.dc.xciy.-m.dcc.xxxil, with Illustrative Notes. Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1829 
 
 "Although the ensuing Letters are both curious and interesting, their peculiar and 
 local nature renders them best suited for private circulation among those persons who 
 think there is no very great harm in being diverted with such (antiquated) scandal as 
 afforded amusement to a person so truly respectable and virtuous as Mr. Robert 
 Wodbow, Minister of the Gospel at Eastwood, to whom (with the exception of a very 
 few) they are all addressed." — Preface. A very clever and amusing review of this 
 small volume will be found in Fraser's Magazine ; where it is asserted that it was the 
 joint production of the late Lord Robertson and a highly popular clergyman. 
 
 S3 Fifty Copies webe pbinted on Small, asd Twelve on Thick Paper 
 
 LETTERS from BISHOP PERCY, JOHN CALLENDER of 
 Craigforth, DAYID HERD, and others, to GEORGE PATON 
 {late of the Custom-Honse, Edinburgh) ; with an Appendix of Illus- 
 trative Matter, Biographical Notices, <tc. Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1830 
 
 " This volume contains a great mass of valuable information regarding the Literary 
 History of Scotland, interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes of 
 Scotchmen." — It was much esteemed-by Sir Walter Scott. 
 S3" Impression limited to One Hundred and Ten Copies on Small, and Twenty 
 
 on Thick Paper 
 
 TEMPLARIA : Abstract of the Charters and other Papers Recorded 
 in the Charttjlary of Torphichen, from 1581 to 1596; with an 
 Introductory Notice and Notes. Sm. 4 to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1830 
 
 Notes of Charters, &c, by the Right Hon. Thomas Earl 
 
 of Melros, afterwards Earl of Haddington, to the Yassals of the 
 Barony of Drem, from 1615 to 1627; with an Introductory Notice. 
 Sm. 4to. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1830 
 
 SST Of the above Thibtt-fiye Copies were printed. — They form appropriate 
 Supplements to the " Templabia," page 3 of this Catalogue. 
 
 Joint Publications of^JoHN Black Gbacie, W.S., and James Maidment. 
 
 Notr — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Three Pounds and Two Shillings. 
 
 TRIAL OF DAYID ROY, Cook to Colin Eviot of Balhousie, for a 
 Rape committed on the Body of Elspett Eviot, 1st February, 1601. 
 •ito. Edinburgh, 1831 
 
 S3" Thtbty Copies were printed for Peesents, from a transcript in the possession 
 of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe. 
 
 PENNEY (JOHN), A Topographical and Historical Account of 
 Linlithgowshire, with Notes, and an Appendix of Illustrative Papers. 
 12mo. Edinburgh [Stillies and Stevenson], 1831-32 
 
 Mr. Maidment was here completely misled by the appearance of the mamscnpt
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF. J AMES MAIDMEST 7 
 
 history of this County, by the widow of the writer — so much so, that he thought so 
 favourably of its merits that he recommended the publication, remarking that "It 
 is accordingly now for the first time presented, without almost any alteration or correction, 
 to the notice of the Public. Mr. Penney appears to have bestowed great pains upon it, 
 and it will not be disputed that he displayed much learning in his remarks, and very 
 considerable research in his investigations, that his views are for the most part 
 judicious, and his opinions well-founded." Upon its publication, it was discovered 
 by Thomas Thomson, Deputy-clerk Register, to have been copied in its entirety 
 from " The Caledonia/' by George Chalmers. 
 
 The Appendix to this work consists of "An Account of the Family of Dundas of 
 Dundas, excerpts from the Chartulary of Dundas of Dundas, and an account of the 
 transmissions of the United Estates of the Templars and Hospitallers," <kc. 
 
 HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS, relative to Scotish Affairs, from 
 1635 to 1664, viz. — I. Memoirs of the Civil War, and during the 
 Usurpation, by James Burns, Merchant, and Baillie of the Citie of 
 Glasgow, 1644-1661. — The Glorious and Miraculous Battel at York, 
 1644. — The Diary of Mr. Robert Douglas when with the Scotish 
 Army in England, 1644. IL Some Remarkable Passages of the 
 Lord's Providence towards me, John Spreul, Tovm-Clerk of Glasgow, 
 in the bygane course of my Pdgriruage, 1635-1664. — Collections by a 
 private hand at Edinburgh, 1650-1661. — Sir John Cochrane's Rela- 
 tions of the Particulars that have occurred in his Negociations since 
 his coming to Hamburgh, 1649. — A Note of the Letters taken out of 
 the Trunk that came to Dumbeath ; with Copies of Two Letters from 
 Colonel Gordon and the Earl of Kinnoul, to the Marquis of Montrose, 
 1649. — A Memorandum to be communicat to Mr. Robert Johnson. — 
 A Dismal Account of the Burning: of our Solemn LeasTie and National 
 Covenant (with God) and one another, at Linlithgow, May 29, 1662. 
 III. An Account of any Accessions the Earl of Balcarres had to 
 the late Engagement ; with a Justification of the Letter written by his 
 Lordship to the Committee of Estates, 1649. — Declaration of the 
 Inhabitants of the Hill Countreys of this Kingdom of Scotland, 
 1653. — Letter from the Earl of Balcarres to his Majesty King Charles 
 II. — Proposals submitted to his Majesty King Charles II. by the 
 Earl of Balcarres. — Instructions from his Majesty King Charles II. 
 to the Earl of Balcarres. — Memorial and Letter relative to Mr. 
 Alexander Henderson, addressed to Dr. James Fraser, by the Rev. 
 Robert TVodrow, 1723, <kc. d:c. ; with Biographical Notices, Notes, 
 ii:c. Sm. 8vo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1832-33 
 
 " This collection of valuable Memorials, illustrative of the History of Scotland 
 during the middle portions of the seventeenth century, affords new information 
 connected with that troublesome period, and throws additional light upon many 
 obscure points, and must be of great benefit to the future historian of those times." 
 
 " There is no period of modern Scottish history of which the materials are so scanty 
 as the interval between the commencement of what is generally termed the Great 
 Rebellion, and the restoration of the dethroned dynasty. We therefore hail with 
 pleasure the publication of any documents which may throw even a feeble bight on 
 this obscure portion of our annals. The volume, of which a very few copies have 
 been printed, is therefore a valuable accession to our stock of historical information. 
 It contains (1.) The memoirs of a Glasgow Bailie of the name of Burns, which commence 
 in 1644, and end in 1661. (2.) A cotemporary account of the ■ Glorious and Miraculous 
 Battel at York.' And (3.) The Diary of Mr. Robert Douglas, while with the Scotch
 
 8 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 
 
 army in England. The first and last of the tracts are from MSS. in the Library of 
 the Faculty of Advocates, and the intermediate one from an unique broadside also 
 preserved in the same national repository. 
 
 " The Glasgow Bailie appears to much disadvantage from his memoirs, existing now 
 only in the shape of a transcript by that inaccurate person George Crawfurd, the 
 peerage writer, who has sadly mutilated them. Even in their present state they 
 possess much interest from the numerous anecdotes scattered up and down. We 
 do not remember to have seen before, the ensuing remarkable statement relative 
 to the supposed death of Lord Belhaven. His Lordship, it would appear, was 
 married to a natural sister of the Duke of Hamilton, and from this connexion had 
 deeply engaged himself in the affairs of his brother-in-law, and had become bound for 
 many of his debts. Upon the defeat of the Duke, apprehensive that the creditors 
 would come upon him, his Lordship concerted with his wife that it should be given out 
 he had been lost in crossing the Solway Sands. This device took effect. The husband 
 was secreted in Beil House, — the lady went into mourning — got her jointure, the 
 object required ; and by compounding her husband's debts, and strict economy, cleared 
 his estates. Whereupon his Lordship, after being supposed dead for eleven years, to 
 the great astonishment of the country, re-appeared and survived his fictitious demise 
 twelve years. He died 15th of May, 1671. 
 
 " Douglas' Diary is somewhat meagre — it is nevertheless worthy of preservation. 
 The Editor, in his introductory notice, has brought forward some singular circumstances 
 relative to the supposed descent of the author, who is represented by Wodrow and 
 Burnet as the grandson of Queen Mary, she having a child by George Douglas, who 
 liberated her from Lochleven, and this child being the father of our author. The 
 reader is referred to the work itself for a summary of the arguments pro and con. 
 
 " We trust, that as it is the intention of the publisher to continue these interest- 
 ing collections, he will, at some future period, favour us with Douglas' valuable though 
 confused account of the General Assembly 1638-39, the original of which is in the 
 Advocates' Library. A second, and what we consider a much more curious volume, is 
 now in our hands, containing, amongst other things, the autobiography of Mr. John 
 Spreul, 1635-64, a very important anonymous diary, of which an account will perhaps 
 be given in our next number." J. B. O. 
 
 8^ Sixty Copies were printed. 
 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Two Pounds and Six Shillings. 
 
 PORTRAITS BY AN AMATEUR [Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe], 
 
 viz. — 1. Earl and Countess of Winton; 2. Lady Marie Stewart ; 3. 
 
 Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale ; 4. Viscount and Viscountess of 
 
 Dundee; and 5. Madame de Stael. 4to. Edinburgh, 1833 
 
 " It is understood that not more than Six Copies were printed for presents." 
 
 CATALOGUES OF SCOTISH WRITERS, viz.— A Short Account 
 of Scots Divines. — Divines in the Seventeenth Century. — A Catalogue 
 of Scotish Writers. — Account of the Learned Men and Writers in 
 Aberdeen, by the Rev. Laurence Charters, Minister of Yester and 
 Dirletoun, and Professor of Theology in the College of Edinburgh, with 
 Literary Correspondence, 1698-1723; including Letters from Captain 
 John Slezer, Bishop Sage, Sir James Dalrymple, James Fall, Alex- 
 ander Pennicuick, James Wei wood, James Anderson, George Crawfurd, 
 Lord Grange, &c. With Biographical Notices, Notes, &c. Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1833 
 
 " From the paucity of materials tending to illustrate the literature of this country, 
 these brief and meagre notices of learned Scotsmen derive an interest which, in other 
 circumstances, would not attach to them." 
 
 B3" Eighty Copies were printed on Small, and Twenty on Large Faper.
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAID MEN T. 9 
 
 LOVE-LETTERS which passed between Mr. West Digges, Comedian, 
 
 and Mrs. Sarah Ward, 1752-59 ; with Biographical Notices, Notes, 
 
 &c. Sm 8vo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1833 
 
 " Contains a vast amount of original and curious information relative to Dramatic 
 affairs in Edinburgh, which might in vain be searched for elsewhere." 
 
 GST Sixty Copies were printed from the originals in the collection of Charles 
 
 Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. 
 
 Note. — Edited jointly by James Maidment and William Hugh Logan. 
 
 THE HCBBLESHUE; A Mystification in Four Scenes. By Miss 
 Carstairs, Edinburgh, circa 1780. 18mo. Edinburgh, 1834 
 
 B3T Thirty Copies were reprinted from the original edition in the possession of 
 Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., with Prefatory Notice, containing specimens of the 
 Lady's poetry. The preface was written in imitation of the style of a literary gentle- 
 man, who, like Lord Chancellor Erskine, was rather addicted to the use of the third 
 vowel. 
 
 ANALECTA SCOTICA : Collections illustrative of the Civil, Ecclesi- 
 astical, and Literary History of Scotland, chiefly from original 
 Manuscripts. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1834-38 
 
 ' ' These volumes contain a great variety of minute facts, which in vain would be 
 sought for elsewhere, and which are of much importance to the investigator of Scotish 
 History ; especially the literary department. The Notes, by which they are elucidated, 
 are replete with laborious accuracy of research." — A very valuable work. 
 
 SS' One Hundred and Six Copies printed on Small, and Six on Thick Paper. 
 
 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS -.—Letters de Quelques Hauts Person- 
 nages, addressees A La Reine D'Ecosse, Marie de Guise, tirees des 
 Manuscrits Originaux et Autographes, recueillis Par Milord Bal- 
 carras. 8vo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1834 
 
 B3F Thirteen Copies Printed from the Original Letters in the Library of the 
 Faculty of Advocates. 
 
 THE ARGYLE PAPERS, consisting of Notices Relative to the 
 Argyle Family, from the MS. Genealogical Collections of Robert 
 Mylne. — Anecdotes of the Marquis of Argyle, and some of his 
 Descendants, by the Rev. Robert Wodrow. — Letter to the Marquis of 
 Argyle, 1640, and Papers relative to his Son, Archibald, 9th Earl of 
 Argyle. — Papers relative to the Abduction of Miss Wharton, by the 
 Hon. James Campbell of Burnbank, and the Execution of Sir John 
 Johnstone, Bart., for his concern therein. — Letters to and from, and 
 Papers connected with Archibald first Duke of Argyle, 1693-1703. 
 The Correspondence of Elizabeth Duchess of Argyle, chiefly relative to 
 the Death of her Husband, and the Proceedings adopted against Mrs. 
 Alison, &c. — Miscellaneous Papers relative to John Duke of Argyle, 
 1704-1717, &c, including the Burnbank Papers, 1710-1723.— Letters 
 which passed between the Hon. Col. Campbell of Burnbank, Son of 
 Archibald 9th Earl of Argyle, and his Wife, the Hon. Margaret
 
 10 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES M AILMENT. 
 
 Leslie, Daughter of David first Lord Newark, and Anne Countess of 
 Moray, to Mrs. Campbell of Burnbank, &c. ; with curious Biographical 
 Notices, Notes. Sm. 4to. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1834 
 
 "A most curious, and, historically speaking, invaluable work." — Dibdin. 
 KM" Fifty Copies weke printed on Small, and Six on Lakge Papee. 
 
 THE GENEALOGY of the [Edmonstone's] Lairds op Ednem and 
 Duntreth, from the year of God 1063, to the year 1699, and more par- 
 ticularly of Duntreth, and the Families that married with Duntreth, 
 during the same time. 18mo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1834 
 
 est Twenty-five Copies Reprinted from the Edition of 1699. 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Thirty-four Shillings. 
 
 BALLADS and other FUGITIVE POETICAL PIECES, chiefly 
 Scotish ; from the Collections of Sir James Balfour, Knt. ; with an 
 Introductory Notice. Sm. 4to. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1834 
 
 £& Forty Copies pbinted on Small,*and Six on Laege Papek, with Two on Vellum. 
 
 GALATIONS. 12mo, Pp. 4. Edinburgh, 1835 
 
 "Taken down from the Recitations of the Guisards at Stirling nearly twenty years 
 since. — Some account of this Fragment of the Ancient Mystery will be found in Hone's 
 Works." 
 
 B^ Twenty-five Copies printed for presents. 
 
 HAY'S (Father Kichard Augustin, Prior of St. Pieremont,) Gene- 
 alogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale, including Memoirs of his own 
 Times ; with Illustrative Papers, Notes, &c. Sm. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1835 
 
 " In this Work will be found some very curious particulars relative to the Families 
 of Hay, Spotiswoode, &c. — Meetings of the Estates of Scotland. — Tryal of Lord 
 Balmerino. — Ceremonial of Burning the Pope, 1689. — John Chiesly of Dairy. — The 
 Misfortunes of Lady Grange, &c. &c. 
 
 US' One Hdndred and Eight Copras were printed on Small, and Twelve on 
 
 Large Paper. 
 
 Genealogie of the Saintclaires of Bosslyn, including the 
 
 Chartulary op Bosslyn, with Illustrative Papers. Sm. 4to, with 
 Seven Views of Rosslyn Castle and Chaj>el, as they existed at the com- 
 mencement of the last century. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1835 
 " Of all publications this is one of the most curious and interesting." — DlBDLN. 
 
 fl2T One Hundred and Eight Copies were prioted on Small, and Twelve on 
 
 Large Paper. 
 
 LETTEBS from Lord Pollock to the Bev. Bobert Wodrow, 1703- 
 1710. (Two Letters from Wodrow to his Lordship are added). 12mo. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1835 
 
 "Sir John Maxwell was a rigid Presbyterian, and had a dreadful hostility to the 
 introduction of Stage Plays in Edinburgh. He died in 1732."
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 11 
 
 POETICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ORKNEY, 1652. Sm. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1835 
 
 83? Thirty Copies printed from the Original MS. in the Library of the Faculty of 
 Advocates. 
 
 ANE PLEASANT GARLAND of Sweet-Scented Flowers. Sm. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1835 
 
 " This Collection of Delicia are, with two or three exceptions, selected from a Volume 
 of Papers preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh." 
 
 63? Sixty Copies printed for presents. 
 
 Note. — A joint publication of William Barclay David Donald Tornbdll, and 
 James Maidment. 
 
 MEMOIR OF ARCHIBALD MACLAREN, Dramatist, with a List 
 of his Works. 12mo. Edinburgh, 1835 
 
 " This brief Memorial of the Life of Maclaren was privately printed to accompany 
 a Collection of his almost numberless Dramatic Pieces. Maclaren was the most 
 voluminous Play Writer in Great Britain ; it is supposed that no entirely complete set 
 of his pieces can be found in any collection, public or private. Probably the one 
 formed by his Biographer is the most perfect. [This is now in the possession of Ralph 
 Dundas, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh.] Maclaren was born in 1755 and died in 1825. He 
 was a Sergeant in the Dumbartonshire Highlanders." 
 
 83? Twenty-Five Copies printed for presents. 
 Note.— Edited jointly by James Maidment and William Hugh Logan. 
 
 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JOHN GORDON, Baronet, 
 of Invergordon, on occasion of the Rebellion Autumn, 1745, contain- 
 ing some particulars of those times. 12mo. Edinburgh, 1835 
 
 " A singular Collection, and possessing much interest. It contains Letters from 
 the Lord President Forbes not otherwise to be found." 
 
 83? Thlrty Copies were printed, with a few on Thick Paper. 
 
 FRAGMENTA SCOTO— DRAMATIC A, 1715-1758, from Original 
 Manuscripts and other sources. 12mo. Edinburgh, 1835 
 
 " A curious Collection of Notices relative to the early history of the Drama in Scot- 
 land, rendered peculiarly interesting as an addition to the very meagre Materials 
 hitherto contributed to this important subject." 
 
 83? Twenty-Eight Copies printed for presents. 
 Note. — Edited jointly by James Maidment and William Hugh Logan. 
 
 BANNATYNIANA : Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club, insti- 
 tuted in February m.dccc.xxiii. Including Critiques on some of its 
 Publications. With a curious Prefatory Notice, including Letters 
 to and from Sir Walter Scott. Notes, &c. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Pitcairn], 1836 
 
 "These Collections are Prefaced by an Account of the Original Formation of the 
 Club, including the Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Archibald Constable, and Robert 
 Pitcairn, which are not to be found elsewhere. Fifty Copies were printed, and the
 
 12 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 
 
 Names of the Subscribers are given. The volume, exclusive of Preface, contains 277 
 pages. In it has been inserted Mr. Repp's somewhat severe criticism upon Sir 
 Frederick Madden's edition of Havelock the Dane." 
 
 STANYHURST (RICHARD, of Dublin). The First Four Books of 
 the ^Eneid of Virgil, in English Heroic Terse. With other 
 Translations and Poems. Reprinted from the Edition of 1583, 
 preserved in the Drummond Collection in the Library of the Uni- 
 versity of Edinburgh, with a Prefatory Notice. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Pitcairn], 1836 
 
 " A very singular Version in English Hexameters, the republication of which was 
 recommended by Sou they." 
 
 iW Fifty Copies printed fob Private Subscribers. 
 
 THE WHORES' RHETORICK, calculated to the Meridian of London, 
 and conform to the Rules of Art, in two Dialogues. With a curious 
 Introductory Notice, Notes, &c. Sm. 4to, with twelve portraits of 
 celebrated London courtezans. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1836 
 
 "The Editor, in his observations upon this very singular and curious production, — 
 conjectured by Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to be by Sir Roger L'Estrange, — 
 concludes with this remark, for the benefit of those who may object to a work with so 
 questionable a title — ' That the limited issue of copies renders it inaccessible to the 
 general reader, and that, moreover, its tendency is not of a description to inflame the 
 passions, but on the contrary, to check them, by laying bare the system of deceit prac- 
 tised by those miserable creatures, whose hypocritical endearments lead the unwary to 
 destruction.' " 
 
 SW Fifty Copies reprinted from the Edition of 1683. 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Three Pounds and Five Shillings. 
 
 ROXBURGHIANA. — Haslewood's (Joseph) Roxburghe [Club] 
 Revels, and other relative Papers ; including Answers to the Attack 
 on the Memory of the late Joseph Haslewood, with Specimens of 
 his Literary Productions, Accounts of the Old London Theatres, 
 Letters from Sir Walter Scott, Dr. Dibdin, &c. &c. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1837 
 "In this volume will be found the Roxburgh Revels, with the Attack upon Hasle- 
 wood — which is very severely commented upon. It contains also a memoir of that 
 gentleman, and various literary memoranda." 
 
 S3" Fifty Copies were printed. 
 
 TURBERVILLE'S (GEORGE) Tragical Tales, and other Poems, 
 
 m.d.lxxxvii., with Prefatory Remarks. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh [Pitcairn], 1837 
 
 " This work of Turberville is reprinted from the rare original in the Drummond 
 Library — belonging to the University of Edinburgh. There is prefixed a biographical 
 account of the author, with a list of his publications so far as they can be traced. 
 There is a remarkable picture of the morals of the Russians during the reign of 
 Elizabeth— which may be considered authentic, as Turberville was Ambassador to the 
 Emperor of Russia— better known as the Czar of Muscovy. — Turberville was the friend 
 of Edmund Spenser." 
 
 «^ Only Fifty Copies printed for Private Subscribers.
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 13 
 
 REMAINS OF SIR ROBERT SIBBALD of Eipps, containing his 
 Autobiography, Memoirs of the Royal College of Physicians, Portions 
 of his Literary Correspondence, and an Account of his MSS. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1837 
 "Valuable and interesting fragments now for the first time printed." 
 83T Thirty-Five Copies were printed. 
 
 BALFOUR'S (SIR JAMES, of Denmylne, Lord Lyon King-at-arms) 
 Ancient, Heraldic, and Antiquarian Tracts, with an Introductory 
 Notice, and Notes. 12mo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1837 
 
 "This Collection contains, amongst other articles, The Coronations of Alexander 
 III., Robert II., and James VI. — Treatises on Nobility. — Ceremonial at Royal 
 Christenings, Rydings of the Parliament. — Register of Interments and Funerals of 
 Kings, Queens, and Dukes, together with the principal Scottish Nobility. — Countess 
 of Lennox's Memorial, &c. The only Report of the Proceedings before the Privy 
 Council on the Dispute between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Douglas, relative to 
 the Right of bearing the Scottish Crown at Royal Processions, as revised by John 
 Riddell, Esq., one of the counsel, is to be found in this volume." 
 
 6^ Fifty Copies were printed on Small, and Twenty on Large Paper. 
 
 KAY (JOHN, Caricaturist and Engraver), Edinburgh Portraits, 
 being original Portraits, with Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh, Baton, 1837, 
 Note. — " Mr. Maidment was the principal and responsible Editor of this work." 
 
 COURT OF SESSION GARLAND : Containing Anecdotes of the 
 Early Administration of Justice in Scotland ; the Justiciary Opera, 
 by James Boswell; the celebrated "Diamond Beetle Case;" the 
 Faculty and Court of Session Garlands ; Robertsoniana ; Parodies on 
 Helvellyn ; Gray's Elegy, and the King's Speeches ; Res Judicata ; 
 Epigrams, Songs, Letters ; Scene from the Jury Court Opera ; Par- 
 liament House Races ; Book of the Proclamations ; Tale of a Wood- 
 cock ; Mottoes proposed to be put up in the Inner-House ; Justice 
 Law, a Song by Sir Walter Scott ; Lord Bannatyne's Lion ; Joys 
 of the Jury Court ; a Bill of Suspension ; Complaint of the Polly- 
 syllable " Otherwise ;" Niggers Emancipation Song ; Notes by Lord 
 Cringletie on the Trial of G. Douglas versus J. Russell ; The Agent's 
 Coronach for his Bain, and the Review of Glenlonely, &c. &c. ; with 
 Illustrative Notices and Notes. 8vo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1839 
 
 "A singularly curious and interesting collection oijeux d' esprit, full of entertainment 
 for a denizen of the Parliament House." 
 
 £3T One Hundred and Fifty Copies printed. 
 
 EPIGRAMS AND SATYRES, made by Richard Middleton, of 
 
 Yorke, Gentleman. With a Preface. 12mo. Edinburgh, 1840 
 
 " The only copy of this work known to exist, is in the collection presented by the 
 Poet Drummond to the University of Edinburgh. It is remarked by the Editor, 
 that the extreme rarity of the poems was the cause of the reprint, — " Neither," con- 
 tinues he, "are the verses so valueless as represented by the Editor of the recent 
 collection of the work of Thomas Middleton, for although the Epigrams are somewhat 
 deficient in point, the Satires possess much vigour, and merit preservation." 
 
 e^ Forty Copies reprinted from the Edition of 1608.
 
 14 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 
 
 PEERAGE CASES, 1760-1797.— Reports of claims preferred to the 
 House of Lords in the Cases of the Cassillis, Sutherland, Sptnie, 
 and Glencairn, Peerages with the Opinions of Lords Marchmont, 
 Mansfield, Hardwicke, Camden, and Loughborough thereon, and an 
 Appendix of curious Documents relative to the Oliphant Peerage, 
 1633, and the Decision in the question of Precedency between the 
 Earl of Sutherland, and the Earl of Crawford, &c. &c. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1840 
 
 "A Collection which, it is hoped, will not be unacceptable to those who take an 
 interest in Peerage Law. This volume was found of great use in the Crawford and 
 Montrose Peerage cases." — It was Reprinted in 1882. 
 
 &3T Sixty Copies privately printed. 
 
 Note. — Mr. Maidment's copy sold at his sale for Four Pounds and Ten Shillings. 
 
 COCKE LORELLE'S BOTE, from a Transcript of the Original, with 
 a Preface. 12mo. Edinburgh, Stanley and Blake, 1841 
 
 " This Poem presents a curious and entertaining picture of the habits and morals of 
 
 the inferior classes of society in the Metropolis, during the reign of the bluff Harry." 
 
 S3T Forty Copies privately printed. 
 
 IMPOTENCY. — Processus Diuorcii inter Joannem Gyb in Strathor et 
 
 Margaretam Hillok, A.D., m.d.lxiii. Sm. 4to. [Edinburgh, ] 
 
 "This case was pleaded before the Superintendent and Ministry of St. Andrews 
 
 Fifeshire, and was taken from the Kegisters of the Kirk Session of the Parish." 
 
 SCOTTSH ELEGIAC VERSES on the Principal Nobility and Gentry, 
 from 1629 to 1729, with interesting Biographical Notices, Notes, and 
 an Appendix of Illustrative Papers. Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1842 
 
 " The Fdneral Poems collected in this volume, although deficient in poetical merit, 
 deserve preservation, as adding some by no means unimportant additions to our store 
 of Historical and Biographical information. They have been printed from copies 
 
 MANY OF THEM UNIQUE." 
 
 33T Ninety Copies were printed on Small, and Twenty-Foub on Large Paper, 
 
 with One on Vellum. 
 
 EXTRACTS from the Diary of a Senator of the College of Justice 
 (James Erskine, of Grange), from 1717 to 1718, now for the first time 
 printed, with a Memoir and Notes. Sm. Svo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1843 
 
 " In this work will be found a very interesting account of the abduction of Lady 
 Grange." 
 
 m~ Seventy Copies printed on Small, and Twenty-Four on Large Paper, with 
 
 One on Vellum. 
 
 A NEW BOOK OF OLD BALLADS; with Illustrative Notes. 
 12 mo. Edinburgh [Stevenson], 1844 
 
 " This Collection was printed chiefly from a MS. in the handwriting of W. Hamilton
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 15 
 
 of Airdrie, and which belonged to his descendant, the late Sir William Hamilton, Bart.; 
 and its chief attraction consists in the recovery of early versions of several popular 
 Scotish Ballads." 
 
 Reprinted in 1868, and forms No. IV. of the series entitled " Four Books of Choice 
 
 Old Scotish Ballads." 
 
 83T Sixty Copies were printed. 
 
 GENEALOGICAL FKAGMENTS. 12mo. Berwick-on-Tweed, 1855 
 
 "This brochure was not printed for sale. It contains Genealogical Notanda relative 
 to the Earldom of Findlater, and Gardner Peerage. The Families of the Douglases, 
 Keiths of Whiteriggs, the Auchinlecks of Balmano, Vetch of Elliock and Caponflat, 
 and Duguid of Auchenhove." 
 
 tfS° Fifty Copies were printed, with Twelve on Large Paper. 
 
 CARRICK (DR. ANDREW), Some Account of the Ancient Earldom of 
 Carrie, in a letter to George Chalmers, Author of Caledonia, now 
 first printed, with Notices of the Earldom after it came into the 
 Families op De Bruce and Stewart. Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1857 
 
 ' ' An interesting work, which will be found of considerable service to those engaged 
 in the study of Scottish Peerage Cases." Some important observations will be found 
 in it on the curious point of the illegitimacy of the sons of the titular King of 
 Ireland. 
 
 B8T Sixty Copies printed. 
 
 SCOTISH BALLADS AND SONGS, with Illustrative Notes, &c. 
 12mo. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1859 
 
 " This Collection consists of curious Scotish Ballads and Songs which, with few ex- 
 ceptions, do not occur in any other Collection, with a few from MSS. ; nmo for the 
 first time printed. The Illustrative and Introductory Notices prefixed to the Ballads 
 severally, afford much valuable information, and give indubitable evidence that the 
 Editor was fully competent to fulfil the duty which he undertook." 
 
 GUISACHAN. A Legend of St. Marjory. Small Svo. 
 
 Printed for the Flying Stationers, Christmas, 1859. 
 
 Note. " The real Author of this jeu d 'esprit is understood to have been William 
 
 Hugh Logan, Banker, Berwick-upon-Tweed." 
 
 LITHGOW (WILLIAM, the Celebrated Scotish Traveller) : Poetical 
 Remains. 1618-1660, viz. : — I. The Pilgrimes Farewell, to bis Natiue 
 Countrey of Scotland, 1618. — II. Scotland's Teares in his Countreyes 
 behalf, 1625. — III. Scotland's Welcome to her Native Sonne, and 
 Soveraigne Lord, King Charles, 1633. — IV. The Gushing Teares of 
 Godly Sorrow, 1640. — V. A Briefe and Summarie Discourse upon 
 that lamentable and dreadfull disaster at Dunglasse, 1640. — VI. 
 Scotland's Paramesis to her dread Soveraign King Cbarles the Second. 
 1660. Now first collected, and edited, with Bibliographical Notices. 
 Small 4to. Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1863 
 
 " This Collection of exceedingly rare and interesting Poems was printed chiefly for 
 Subscribers, and the Impression was limited to One Hundred Copies."
 
 16 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES M AID MEN T. 
 
 THE RIDDELL PAPERS : A Catalogue of the Annotated Books 
 and Manuscripts of the late John Riddell, Advocate, Edinburgh. 
 Sm. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1863 
 
 "A late Genealogical Antiquary, who probably knew more Scotch family secrets 
 than any other man that ever lived." — John Hill Burton. 
 
 Note. — This Collection of Papers is understood to have been purchased by the Earl 
 of Crawford and Balcarras, who afterwards presented them to the Library of the 
 Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. 
 
 ear Impression limited to Fifty Copies for Private Circulation. 
 
 SCOTISH BALLADS AND SONGS, Historical and Traditionary, 
 
 edited with copious Notes and Introductions. 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh, Pater son, 1868 
 
 "The present edition of the more ancient popular Ballads and Songs of the North 
 will, it is hoped, be accepted as a suitable accompaniment to the works of Dunbar and 
 Henryson. The Ballads and Songs contained in the present collection are limited to such 
 as are purely historical, or are based on traditions from which they may be presumed to 
 have had originally some foundation in fact." 
 
 A BOOK OF SCOTISH PASQUILS, 1568-1715. Edited with In- 
 troductory and Prefatory Remarks. 8vo. Edinburgh, Pater son, 1868 
 
 " This will unquestionably be hailed as a most important addition to our materials 
 for the history of those Dissensions which, for upwards of a century, affected the 
 tranquillity of Scotland." — Vide page 3 of this Catalogue. 
 
 A PACKET OF PESTILENT PASQUILS (A Supplemental Part 
 
 to the "Book of Scotish Pasquils." Privately Printed.) 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh [Patersoii\, 1868 
 
 This consists of Lampoons, chiefly on the Rev. David Williamson, minister of St. 
 Cuthbert's or West Kirk, Edinburgh, the uxorious clergyman who outstripped Henry 
 VIII. in the number of his wives. "A very few copies were printed, for preservation 
 in the cabinets of such collectors as do not object to antiquated scandal, and hold the 
 opinions that, as illustrative of the morals and manners of Edinburgh society of past 
 times, these satires have some value." 
 
 THE COURT OF SESSION GARLAND. A Collection of Songs, 
 
 Anecdotes, Squibs, &c, which have emanated from the Parliament 
 
 House, Edinburgh. New Edition, with large additions. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh [Paterson], 1871 
 
 "This Edition has been chronologically arranged so far as the different subjects 
 would permit." 
 
 8^ The Impression was limited to One Hundred and Fifty Copies.— Fide 
 
 page 13 of this Catalogue. 
 
 MAR PEERAGE :— I. Case, Presented to the House of Lords for 
 John Francis Erskine Goodeve Erskine, Earl of Mar, Baron Garioch, 
 in opposition to Walter Coningsby, Earl of Kellie, claiming the 
 Dignity of the Earl of Mar in the Peerage of Scotland. II. Supple- 
 mentary Case for the same. Folio. Edinburgh, 1873 
 
 — Ancient Territorial Earldoms and Jurisdiction of the Court of 
 Session of Scotland before the Union. 4to. " Unpublished." 
 
 [Edinburgh, ]
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAILMEN T. 17 
 
 DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION: Consisting of the Works 
 of Sir William D'Avenant, John Crowne, John Wilson, Sir Aston 
 Cokain, Shackerley Marmion, John Lacy, and John Tatham. 14 
 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, Paterson, 1877-78 
 
 "In this series of the Dramatists, for the most part writers of Comedy, who 
 flourished after the extinction of the Commonwealth, the works of the various authors 
 have been given in an unmutilated form, after careful collation with the earliest and 
 the best editions. The Memoir and Prefatory Notes are replete with curious and highly 
 interesting matter, taken in many cases from sources not easily accessible to ordinary 
 readers." 
 
 &3T This was a joint-editorship of William Hugh Logan and James Maidment. 
 
 BOOKS EDITED FOR LITERARY CLUBS. 
 
 i. 
 Bamtatime Ctaft, lEDmimrgl). 
 
 LYOUN (JOHN, of Auldbar), Teares for the Death of Alexander 
 [Seton], Earle of Dunfermeling, Lord Chancellar of Scotland. Re- 
 printed from a supposed Unique Copy, at " Edinburgh : Printed by 
 the Heires of Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1622." 4to. Edinburgh, 1823 
 
 " The Earl of Dunfermline, whose death forms the subject of this Poem, was a man 
 of considerable talent. He died 16th June, 1622, aged sixty-seven, with regret of all 
 that knew him, and the love of his country, and was interred with great honour. The 
 lines at the end are exceedingly beautiful." 
 
 52T This was Mr. Maidment's Contribution to the Bannatyne Club. Seventy-Three 
 Copies were printed for the Members, with Two on Vellum. — None for sale. 
 
 II. 
 
 Plattlantr €\ub, ©lasgoto. 
 
 THE CHRONICLE OF PERTH [sometimes but erronously called 
 
 Mercer's Chronicle], a Register of Remarkable Occurrences, chiefly 
 
 connected with that City, from the year 1210 to 1668. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1831 
 
 " Highly illustrative of the habits and customs of the citizens of Perth, and furnish- 
 ing a fair estimate of the state of society during the period to which they refer. " — 
 This was Mr. Maidment's Contribution to the Maitland Club, and printed for the 
 Members only. There were Two Copies taken off on Vellum. — None for sale. 
 
 III. 
 
 StobotsforB Ciufc, lEMitfmrgf). 
 
 THE ROMANCES OF ROULAND AND VERNAGU, AND OTUEL. 
 Edited from the Auchinleck MS. with Preliminary Remarks. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1836 
 
 " Both romances are English, and were never before printed in so far as preserved. 
 Of the two romances, Sir Otuel is by far the superior one, as it is written with great
 
 18 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT. 
 
 spirit and animation. The encounter of words between King Clarel and Charlemagne 
 is uncommonly graphic. Rouland and Vernagu is much less poetical — but is by no 
 means deficient in vigour, and there is a degree of stirring interest throughout, that 
 negatives any charge of tamenes3. It is embellished by two admirable etchings by 
 Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, which he kindly furnished for this elegantly printed 
 work." 
 
 £3" Mr. Nicholson's (of Leamington) Contribution to the Abbotsford Club. 
 Printed for the Members only. — None for sale. 
 
 THE MELROS PAPERS : State Papers and Miscellaneous Corres- 
 pondence of Thomas Earl of Melrose. Edited for the Right Hon. 
 John Hope, Lord Justice-Clerk, from the Original Letters at 
 Tynningham, and in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, Edin- 
 burgh. 2 vols. 4to. Edinburgh, 1837 
 
 " A most valuable work, throwing great light on the History of Scotland during 
 the reign of James VI. The Earl of Melros, who afterwards exchanged the title for 
 that of Haddington, was one of the ablest men of his time, and had the confidence of 
 his Royal Master. He was latterly President of the Court of Session. His descend- 
 ant, the present Earl, obtained an English Peerage as Baron of Melros." 
 
 S3T One Hundred Copies printed for the Members only. — None for sale. 
 
 MISCELLANY op the ABBOTSFORD CLUB: [Original Papers 
 relating to the History and Literature of Scotland and England]. 4to. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1837 
 
 " The Abbotsford Miscellany is not confined to Scotish matters. On the contrary, 
 it contains Engbsh documents of deep interest. Thus, there is an account of the last 
 moments of Anne of Denmark — from the Balfour MS. The curious autobiographical 
 account of ' My Lord Warwick's Passage,' 1627, previously unknown. The Letters 
 of Lord Ellesmere. — English State Papers of the Reign of James I. — with Fac-similes, 
 &c. &c. In the Scotish portion may be noticed, the remarkable Trials for Witchcraft 
 in Orkney in 1643. — James the Sixth's award on the question as to the Barony of San- 
 quhar, an argument indicating very clearly the great learning of the Monarch. The 
 Boyd Papers, &c. &c. There are Prefaces and Illustrative Note3 to each article." 
 &W Printed for the Members only. — None_for sale. 
 
 LETTERS AND STATE PAPERS, during the reign of King James 
 VI., chiefly from the Manuscript Collections of Sir James Balfour of 
 Denmylne, with Fac-similes, in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, 
 Edinburgh. 4to. Edinburgh, 1837 
 
 " A volume of great historical importance, presented to the Members of the 
 Abbotsfoed Club, by Adam Anderson, Esq., afterwards one of the Senators of Justice. 
 It contains an elaborate preface and numerous illustrative notes. In this collection 
 occur the Letters relative to Andrew Henderson, which seem to have escaped the 
 notice of those who have written on the subject of the Gowrie Conspiracy. The 
 Letters of the Earl of Dunfermeling are exceedingly valuable. In one of them there 
 is a remarkable account of the state of Scotland at the date of the accession of James 
 VI. to the English Diadem." 
 
 AS* One Hundred Copies printed for the Members only.— None for sale. 
 
 SAINT CATHARINE OF SIENNA : Liber Conventus de S. Katherine 
 Senensis, Prope Edinburgum. (The Constitutions of the Sisters of the 
 Sciennes.) 4to. Edinburgh, 1841 
 
 " The elaborate Prefatory Remarks prefixed to this singularly valuable collection of
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES M A ID MEN T. 19 
 
 documents, afford much interesting information relative to the Convents in Scotland. 
 Notices of the Families of St. Claire, Craufurd, Dick of Grange, and Lauder of 
 Fountainhall," &c. &c. 
 
 dCzT Printed for the Members only. — None for sale. 
 IV. 
 
 Spottt&toooUe Sowtr, lEBmbttrgfj. 
 
 THE SPOTTISWOODE MISCELLANY : A Collection of Original 
 Papers and Tracts, illustrative chiefly of the Civil and Ecclesiastical 
 History of Scotland, with Biographical Notices and Notes. 2 vols. 
 8vo. Edinburgh, 1844-45 
 
 " This is perhaps the most readable of all the Miscellanies printed by the Scotish Book 
 Clubs. The information is varied and curious. The Notes and Illustrations amusing 
 and apposite. Among the most prominent articles are the Notes of Trials for Witchcraft 
 in Scotland. The Diurnal of Occurrences commencing August, 1652. The Kincardine 
 Papers — The Grievances of the Episcopal Clergy — The Memoirs of John Duke of 
 Melfort — The Collections relative to the Family of Spottiswoode, and the Satirical 
 Account of Angus and its Families by Ochterlony of Guynd." The late Lord 
 Panmure was so much delighted with the Account of Angus, that he purchased, when 
 occasion offered, copies, which he gave away among his friends. 
 
 32T Printed for the Members only. — None for sale. 
 
 $tmterfan ©lufr, CSIasgoto. 
 
 SIR THOMAS OVERBURIE'S VISION, by Richard Niccols, 1616. 
 Reprinted with an Introduction. Sin. 4to. Glasgow, 1873 
 
 " This is a Poem composed in our epic verse, having reference to the Murder of Sir 
 Thomas Overburie, through the instrumentality of the Countess of Somerset. It derives 
 peculiar interest from affording a contemporaneous description, accompanied by portrait- 
 ures of the unhappy persons who were brought to the scaffold for acting as agents of 
 the Countess in her atrocious and vindictive proceedings. It is of extreme rarity, and 
 of which there is no copy in the Library of the British Museum, or in that of the 
 Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh." 
 
 &W This was the Contribution of Alexander Yodng, Esq., Writer, Glasgow, 
 to the Members of the Club. — None for sale. 
 
 &&I 
 
 4i
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 NOTICES OF THE SALE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE MAIDMENT COLLECTION. 
 
 i. 
 From the " Edinburgh Courant," 2±th April, 1880. 
 
 " Bibliophiles have a rich treat in store for the ensuing three weeks, during 
 which period Messrs. Chapman & Son will be engaged in the dispersal of the 
 library formed by the late Mr. James Maidment, advocate, the eminent dramatic 
 critic and litterateur. Many people by rumour, and some from personal know- 
 ledge, were aware of the fact that Mr. Maidment, during the course of a literary 
 career extending over sixty years, had been an industrious collector, but very few 
 could have formed any idea of the extent and completeness of the. collection. It 
 has been brought under the notice of the public ' as the most interesting, while 
 it is one of the most extensive, which has been sold in Scotland.' The descrip- 
 tion is not overstrained. Certainly, as regards the mere number of volumes, it 
 has frequently been surpassed, but ' size ' collectively applied has little attrac- 
 tion for the book-hunter. In that respect the present is not to be compared 
 with the great Laing collection, but in other respects Maidment's collection 
 is decidedly superior to Laing's. In the best sense of the term, Mr. Maidment 
 was a bibliomaniac, and there is hardly a volume in the collection now brought 
 under the hammer which does not contain some trace of this passion. His collec- 
 tion possesses, of course, beautiful and complete sets of the long series of valuable 
 works relating to Scotland published by clubs and private individuals during the 
 course of the present century. But it is not in these or in the other rare works 
 that the charm of the collection lies : it is in the genius of the collector which 
 led him to select worthy objects, and in the untiring industry and zeal which 
 sustained him in his pursuit. Possessed of all the necessary qualifications which 
 go to make an accomplished bibliomaniac, his collection for variety, rarity, and 
 completeness has in its own departments never been equalled. It would be 
 impossible to give anything like an idea of the treasures here collected. Mr. 
 Maidment's literary fame will chiefly rest on his editorial labours on the English 
 dramatists, in which he was partly assisted by Mr. W. H. Logan. And we have 
 some idea here of how he prepared himself for his task. His collection of 
 dramatic works extends to about a thousand volumes, many of them very rare. 
 The lot consists of a collection of 400 tragedies, comedies, &c, with MS. indices 
 and newspaper cuttings relative to the authors and their works, published in 
 London, 1749-1865 ; one of the most valuable features of this portion of the 
 collection being the collection of ana relating to all the most celebrated characters 
 who have adorned the British stage. A large proportion of the volumes are 
 unique. Many of them relate to the Scottish stage, of the rare and scanty 
 literature relating to which Mr. Maidment was a most industrious collector. 
 21 C
 
 22 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF THE MAIDMENT COLLECTION. 
 
 " In song and ballad literature the collection is very strong. No department 
 of book-hunting requires such incessant assiduity to make it attain any value, 
 not to say dimensions, at all. Here they are in every shape and form : broad- 
 sides, tractates, pamphlets, leaflets, published in every reign from Queen Mary 
 to Victoria. The collection of ' Ana ' is unique and extensive, and is, in fact, 
 the leading feature of this famous collection, and its great attraction. The 
 volumes relate to every conceivable subject. Among them is a set of a hundred 
 folios, titled ' Scottish Topographical Collections,' and an octavo set of thirty- 
 two volumes relating to the same subject. Among the latter are eight relating 
 to the city of Edinburgh, and two to the county. Most of them originally 
 appeared in pamphlet form, and many relate to public disputes, the echoes of 
 which have long since died away. Among them are accounts of the rejoicings 
 which took place on the occasion of Lord Dalkeith attaining his majority, accom- 
 panied by an exceedingly interesting portrait of his Lordship. To say that the 
 folio set is unique is to give little indication of its character. It embraces law 
 papers, pamphlets, tracts, letters, MSS., &c. We trust that this collection will 
 be saved to Scotland. The least dip into a volume of the set will be sufficient 
 to convince any one that it would be a dangerous, if not useless, task to attempt 
 the history of any town or county in Scotland without being acquainted with the 
 contents of these volumes. 
 
 " An interesting collection is that of sale catalogues, some of them with the 
 prices brought by the books and the purchaser's name in the margin. Among 
 these are the catalogues of book sales in Edinburgh 1690-1720, and prefixed to 
 one of them, which is in manuscript, is a note in Mr. Maidnient's handwriting 
 that he believed it to be a portion of Mr. James Anderson's library. Mr. 
 Anderson occasionally parted with his books — Mr. M'Ewen, the publisher of 
 the Courant, usually selling them for him by auction. Lot 1397 is the Edin- 
 burgh Evening Post newspaper, 1710 to 1712, with the first number of the 
 Courant (1705) inserted. Of volumes relating to famous trials there is no end, 
 and here, too, Mr. Maidment's industry is conspicuous, never resting satisfied 
 until he had collected not only authentic records, but materials of every possible 
 description which could in any way help to elucidate the subject. As a pedigree 
 lawyer he held a very high position, and his genealogical collections made in the 
 course of his work are most important, and relate to many distinguished families. 
 "Mr. Maidment's acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott — indeed with nearly 
 everybody of literary distinction in Scotland from his day downwards— has 
 resulted in the formation of several volumes of personal ana, several of them 
 being volumes of correspondence. One of those consists of original letters from 
 Scott, Lockhart, Fergusson, and their contemporaries. In one of them Sir 
 Walter characterises Pinkerton and Eitson as ' rabid numskulls,' who he thinks 
 it odd should ' have disturbed the tranquility of the very impassionate study of 
 antiquities.' Another collection consists of three octavo volumes of Scottiana, 
 while another consists of the law papers and pleadings in which Sir Walter took 
 part. Then we have similar collections relating to Burns, Byron, Sheridan, 
 Siddons, Kemble, Kean, and a host of others. 
 
 " We have barely referred to a few of the interesting features of this collection 
 — the mere fact that the sale is to extend over fifteen working days is the best 
 practical proof that could be given of the extent and interest of the collection." 
 
 II. 
 
 From the " Scotsman," 28th April to 17th May, 1880. 
 
 First Day's Sale, Tuesday, 21th April, 1880. — " There was commenced 
 yesterday, in Chapman's Auction Rooms, Edinburgh, the distribution of a col- 
 lection of books which possesses much interest, not to bibliographers and 
 curiosity hunters alone, but to connoisseurs and students in almost every depart-
 
 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF THE MAIDMENT COLLECTION. 23 
 
 merit of literature and art. The late Mr. James Maidment, advocate, as may be 
 gathered from a very cursory examination of this collection, was an enthusiastic 
 bibliographer ; and there are few volumes in his library which do not in one 
 way or other bear the impress of his individuality. His acquaintance with 
 many of the most eminent litterateurs of his day enabled him to collect with 
 facility not only works of great value and interest, but numerous data and 
 reminiscences relating to these works or their authors, which, embodied in a 
 permanent form in the books, invests the collection with an additional interest. 
 The 5059 works which he has brought together in the course of over half-a- 
 century's collecting, and which are now to be dispersed under the hammer of 
 the auctioneer, comprise histories and treatises on a great variety of subjects. 
 Not a few of these date from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, and are as 
 valuable as they are scarce. An important feature is the collection of works 
 relating to the drama and dramatic literature — a department in which Mr. 
 Maidment took an especial interest, and in which, perhaps, he is most widely 
 known to the literary world. These, numbering close upon 1000, are to be dis- 
 posed of on the last two of the fifteen days over which the sale is to extend. 
 There are also numerous historical and statistical works, including 100 volumes 
 entitled ' Scottish Topographical Collections ;' a great variety of biographical 
 compilations and relics, among which are collections of holograph letters by Sir 
 Walter Scott and other distinguished men ; many rare old ballads and fugitive 
 publications ; privately printed books by J. Payne Collier, David Laing, and 
 others ; publications of the Abbotsford and other Clubs ; and sets of privately 
 printed works, edited by Mr. Maidment. The books are all in excellent 
 condition ; indeed, in rebinding and renovating the most ancient specimens the 
 collector has given some indication of how much he cherished them, thinking, 
 doubtless, with Charles Lamb, that however flimsily current literature might be 
 clothed, no binding was too good or substantial for these relics of the past. 
 Perhaps the most remarkable, and to some extent unique, feature of the collec- 
 tion, consists in the notes in the collector's handwriting, and newspaper cuttings, 
 which have been inserted more or less freely in a large proportion of the works. 
 These relate principally to the authors, or furnish some additional information 
 on the subjects under treatment. The more interesting specimens of the collec- 
 tion will be briefly noticed as the sale proceeds. 
 
 "The first 262 lots were disposed of yesterday. Among the first octavo 
 volumes offered was a collection of papers relating to Aberdeen Colleges, and to 
 the Union, published in 1787, by Professor Stuart, with MS. notes by Professor 
 Knight, at the sale of whose library the book was purchased. It was sold for 
 12s. A curious little volume entitled ' The Academy of Complements, wherein 
 ladies, gentlewomen, schollers, and strangers, may accommodate their courtly 
 practice with gentile ceremonies, and complementall, amorous, high expressions 
 and forms of speaking or writing of letters most in fashion ' (1646), was knocked 
 down at 14s. 'An account of the conduct of Provost Stewart, Edinburgh,' by 
 David Hume, was a very small book of 34 pages, published in 1748, and con- 
 sisted of a letter by the author to a friend, who had expressed great curiosity ' to 
 be acquainted with all Provost Stewart's story in the circumstances of his 
 conduct in Edinburgh, when that city was taken by the Tebels in 1745.' It 
 brought 8s. After a brisk competition, there was sold for 27s. an ' Account of 
 the late Great Frost, and the Humours, Loves, Cheats, and Intreagues of the 
 Town, as they were managed upon the River of Thames during the Season' 
 (1684). 'Two Short Essays," The Gift of a Grandfather,' &c, by Sir William 
 Adam of Blairadam, published privately in one small volume, bearing no date, 
 was knocked down at 15s. ' Adams' Complete History of the Civil Wars in 
 Scotland under the Marquis of Montrose,' published in Edinburgh in 1724, and 
 of which, according to a note by Mr. Maidment, there is no copy in the 
 Advocates' Library, brought 23s. The volume embraced an appendix containing 
 several curious papers relating to the history of those times, and fifteen copies of
 
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 letters to Montrose from Charles I., his Queen, Charles II., and Prince Eupert, 
 published from the originals. It also contained the following lines, written by 
 Montrose, with the point of his sword, upon the death of Charles I. : — 
 ' Great, Good, and Just, could I but rate 
 
 My Griefs, and thy too rigid Fate, 
 
 I'd weep the World to such a Strain 
 
 As it should once deluge again. 
 
 But since thy loud-tongued Blood demands Supplies 
 
 More from Briareus' Hands than Argus' eyes, 
 
 I'll Sing thy Obsequies with Trumpet Songs, 
 
 And write thy Epitaph with blood and wounds.' 
 
 ' ^Esop, in Select Fables at Tunbridge, Bath, Epsom, &c.' (1698), sold for 28s. 
 A copy of Ainsworth's 'Tower of London' (1840), illustrated by George Cruick- 
 shank, brought 39s. For 12s. there was disposed of a ' History of the Rencounter 
 at Drumclog, and Battle of Bothwell Bridge, in the Month of June 1679, with 
 an account of what is correct and what is fictitious in the " Tales of my Landlord " 
 respecting these engagements,' by Wm. Aiton, Sheriff-substitute, Hamilton. 
 There was a keen competition for the possession of 'Alesii (A) Epistola? ad 
 Titum Exposito' (1552), which bore on the fly-leaf the following interesting note 
 by Mr. Maidment : — ' Alesius, according to Boyle, was born at Edinburgh 23d 
 April, 1500. Originally opposed to Luther, the murder of Patrick Hamilton 
 struck him so very forcibly as opposed to all Christian doctrine that he became 
 a convert to the reformed religion. . . . After a cruel imprisonment (through 
 having incurred the enmity of the- Provost of St. Andrews by his preaching) he 
 was fortunate enough to escape to Germany in 1532.' He died on 17th March, 
 1565. A note was also added as to the rarity of the tract. The book was sold 
 for £6. The ' Answer to Mons. de Bodon's Funeral of the Mass,' by N. N. 
 (1681), sold at £1, 19s. It bore the following note by Mr. Maidment :— 'This 
 very rare little book, of which I only know another, is particularly interesting in 
 giving an account of the original foundation of the convent of the Sciennes, of 
 which an erroneous account is given by Maitland and Chalmers.' 'An account 
 of apparitions and prodigies which hath been seen both upon earth and sea in 
 the end of last and beginning of this present year' (Glasgow, 1721), 4h pages, 
 brought 18s. 'Apuleius (L.) Herbarium Apule Platonica' (1480), bound in 
 vellum, with numerous curious wood engravings, was knocked down at £1, 12s. 
 A note upon it by Mr. Maidment was in the following terms : — ' This is the 
 Herbas of Lucius Apuleius, author of the " Golden Ass," one of the earliest and 
 rudest woodcut representations of plants, and a volume of very rare occurrence.' 
 ' The XL Books of the " Golden Asse," ' translated by Will, Adlington, black 
 letter (1582), described as ' most rare,' brought £5, 15s. After a brisk com- 
 petition, £4 was the price given for 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments,' 
 translated, with notes, by E. W. Lane (1839), 3 vols. 'An Essay on Nothing,' 
 by Hugo Arnot, with two engravings by Kay (1776), sold at £\. John Aubrey's 
 Miscellanies (1784) brought £l, Is. A curious work, entitled 'A Briefe 
 Chronologie of the Holie Scriptures, comprised first in a few verses for some 
 helpe of memorie,' by Robert Aylet (1600), brought 19s. A number of fine old 
 ballads were sold, and realised good prices. For ' A Collection of Old Ballads, 
 corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant, with introductions, 
 historical, critical, and humorous,' with quaint engravings (1723), 3 volumes, 
 £9 was obtained. Another collection of Ballads and Garlands, including ' The 
 Squire and Susan's Daughter' (never republished) (1733), 'The Battle of Falkirk 
 Garland' (1746), and 'The Transactions of the Pretender' (1746), in one volume, 
 sold at £5, 10s. Another volume of Ballads and Songs brought ,£1, 7s. 'A 
 Ballad Book,' edited by C. K. Sharpe, with a frontispiece by the editor, uncut, 
 of which only 30 copies were printed (Edinburgh, 1823), sold for £6, 17s. 6d. 
 A copy of the same work was knocked down at Laing's sale for £5, 10s. ' The 
 Ballad Book,' edited by G. R. Kinloch, with frontispiece and vignette on title,
 
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 uncut (Edinburgh, 1827), realised £7, 2s. 6d. Only 30 copies were printed for 
 private circulation, and thi3 is said to be the highest price at which any copy has 
 been sold. A little work on the Scottish Ballad Controversy (Edinburgh, 1859), 
 with numerous newspaper cuttings, brought £1, 7s. ; and M'Killip's Ballads and 
 Songs, also with newspaper cuttings and chap books inserted, sold for £1, 4s. 
 For the three pamphlets on the Ballantyne and Lockhart Controversy (London, 
 1839), 12s. was given. Balzac's Letters, translated by Sir R. Baker, brought 
 £1. ' A Description of the Roman Catholic Church,' in verse (Edinburgh, 1689), 
 ' Rome's Legacy to the Kirk of Scotland,' in verse (1724), ' On the Scarcity of 
 Copper Coin, a Satyr' (1739), 'Roost for a Scots Parson, a New Song,' &c, in 
 one volume, by John Barclay, minister at Cruden, was knocked down at £1, 16s. 
 R. Baron's ' Poems and Plays,' 3 vols. (1648-50), sold for £1, 7s. For Bassoni 
 Pierre's ' Memoirs of his Embassy to the Court of England in 1626,' translated, 
 with notes by Croker & Nicolas, and illustrated by numerous inserted portraits 
 (1819), £2, 18s. was given. The autobiography of George Beattie of Montrose, 
 MS., realised £2, 2s. ; and George Beattie's ' John of Arnha',' with humorous 
 coloured plates, was sold for £1, 12s. J. Beattie's Scoticisms (1787), interleaved 
 with MS. Notes, &c, brought ,£1, 9s. For ' The Ecclesiastical History of the 
 English Nation,' translated into English from Dr. Smith's edition, (1723) by the 
 ' Venerable Bede,' the price obtained was £1. A work by Lord Belhaven 
 entitled, ' The Countryman's Rudiments ; or advice to the farmers in East 
 Lothian' (1713), was sold for £1, 13. £2, 2s. was given for the 'Miseries of 
 Human Life,' by James Beresford (1807), 2 volumes, with coloured plates. 
 Thomas Bewick's 'History of Birds,' 2 volumes, second edition (1805), and 
 ' Quadrupeds,' fifth edition (1807), brought £12, 10s. 'Bingfield's Travels and 
 Adventures ' (1753), sold for £1, 12s. Regarding this work Sir Walter Scott 
 wrote on his copy in the Abbotsford Library, ' I read this scarce little " Voyage 
 Imaginaire " when I was about ten years old, and long after sought for a copy, 
 till my friend, Mr. Terry, made me a present of this one.' £3, 18s. was given 
 for 'Birt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in 
 London' (1754), 2 vols. This work brought 2s. less at Laing's sale. On his 
 copy Mr. Maidment had written, ' Lord Hailes, speaking of the author of this 
 book, states that it was not Major Caufield but one Burt, a settler or contractor 
 under John Wade, an ignorant creature, who drew together materials for a book, 
 in order to procure a bit of bread. Major Caufield was a scholar who could not 
 have written illiterately, and who would not have written unfavourably of ye 
 Highlands of Scotland. I knew the man, and I am confident that he would not 
 have erred on that side. The only thing of his composition in the work is a 
 pompous inscription for Tay Bridge. That, I have been informed, is the com- 
 position of Major Caufield (vide Letters of George Paton, MS. Advocate's 
 Library). In giving an unfavourable account of a work so really interesting, 
 Lord Hailes seems to be completely influenced by national prejudice. Sir 
 Walter Scott entertains a very different opinion of the merits of our author.' 
 ' Blackwoodiana ' was the title of an exceedingly interesting collection of pam- 
 phlets and cuttings relating to Blackwood's Magazine. At the beginning of the 
 book Mr. Maidment had pasted the following amusing paragraph, cut from a 
 newspaper of the day : — ' Fashionable arrival. At the Somerset Hotel, Strand, 
 Mr. BaUlie Blackwood. The Baillie, who, we are happy to say, looks very well, 
 and takes his brandy and water with a firm and determined hand, has, we 
 believe, come up with a Royal address to the King, exposing the mean character 
 of the town and Council of Edinburgh. He dined yesterday at this hotel with 
 the Lord Advocate, and condoled with him on his ejectment. We are credibly 
 informed that he will receive the honour of knighthood, and will become Sir 
 Wm. Blackwood of that Ilk. There's an honour for Auld Reekie ! March 
 27th, 1831 ! ' Bound up with the volume there is an old play-bill for the ' Royal 
 Mohock Theatre,' Gabriel's Road, announcing an attractive programme to be 
 performed by ' His Majesty's most obsequious servants, Sheridan's celebrated
 
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 comedy,' the principal piece being ' School for Scandal.' Several other news- 
 paper cuttings give an account of a duel which took place between ' Mr. John 
 Scott, the avowed editor of the London Magazine, and Mr. Christie, the friend 
 of the supposed conductor of Blackwood's Magazine, Mr. John Gibson Lockhart, 
 of Edinburgh.' The affair resulted in the death of Mr. Scott, and there are 
 extracts relating to the inquest and funeral. Another curiosity is a printed 
 handbill entitled ' Ane True and Most Dolorous Historie of the Challenge which 
 passed betweene Lockharte, Ernperoure of the Mohocks, and Skotte, King of the 
 Baldwinians, in which is narrated the Melancolique and Grievouse Flight of the 
 Ernperoure and his Squyar from the Onslaughte — first penned by Timothie 
 Twaddeltone, gent, and imprinted by Baillie Blatherwyg, at the Sign of the 
 Blue Cowe, Totherwickes Wynde, Edinboro — 1595.' There is also a report of 
 the trial by jury at the instance of Professor John Leslie, against William 
 Blackwood, for libel in the magazine. The volume was sold for £3, 16s. For 
 J. Blount's ' Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' by Beckwith (1784), £17 was given. A 
 curious collection of old Scottish Songs, 1 vol., by Sir Alex. Boswell, brought 
 £5, 10s. J. Boswell's 'Dorando' (1767), regarding which Mr. Maidment had 
 written that it was now so scarce that the editor of Boswell's works was unable 
 to find a copy, there not being one in the British Museum, was sold for £3, 15s. 
 One of the rarest works sold during the day was ' The Last Battell of the Soule 
 in Death ' (1629), 2 vols., by Zachary Boyd. In this work there ' are showne 
 the divers skirmishes that are betweene the soule of man on his death-bedde and 
 the enemies of our salvation, carefullie digested for the comfort of the sicke, by 
 Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of God's Word at Glasgow.' The writer relates 
 how, ' after sixteene yeares absece into France, where it pleased God to mak me 
 a preacher of his word the space of foure yeares, it pleased the same Lord to 
 visite his Church there with bloodie warres, whereby manie churches, and mine 
 also, were dispersed. By this occasion it was the Lord's will to bring me backe 
 to my native countrie.' The two neat little volumes, of which the work consists, 
 were sold for £12. It was said that, but for the fact that the last page of the 
 book had been torn and reproduced in MS., three or four times this sum would 
 have been obtained. 
 
 " The quarto volumes included several valuable collections of private publi- 
 cations. The works printed by the Abbotsford Club, numbering 32 volumes, 
 embraced Ancient Mysteries from the Digby manuscripts, Sir Guy of Warwick, 
 the Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheill, Memoirs of the Insurrection of 
 Scotland in 1715, the Melrose Papers, Oppressions in Orkney and Zetland, The 
 Weaver's Pageant, Correspondence of the Atholl Family, Arthour and Merlin, 
 Letters of State during the Eeign of King James VI. The whole were sold in 
 one lot, the price obtained being £48. The papers, letters, and minutes of the 
 Bannatyne Club, collected by Mr. Maidment, brought £2, 17s. The different 
 volumes of the Auchinleck Press and Bannatyne Publications were sold separately. 
 Of the Auchinleck series, Songs of the Justiciary Opera sold for £1, 7s., the 
 same work having only brought 13s. at Laing's sale. ' Frondes Caducse ' was 
 knocked down at £2, 10s. ' The Copie of a Baron's Court,' newly translated by 
 ' What's-you-call-him, clerk to the same ' (said to be by Dr. Patrick Anderson), 
 regarding which Mr. Maidment had expressed the opinion that it was probably 
 the first of the ' Baron's Court,' and so scarce that he considered it unique, was 
 carried off for £4, 18s. The Archbishop of Spalato's Declaration of three reasons 
 which moved him to depart from the Romish religion and his country (1617), 
 £4, 2s. was given. The Bannatyne Garlands, a collection of thirteen, in two 
 volumes, reached the high price of £12 ; and collections of letters, autographs, 
 and newspaper cuttings relating to the Bannatyne Club sold respectively at 
 £3, 12s. and £3, 10s. A collection of Lothian Papers, being correspondence of 
 Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancrum, and Sir William, third Earl of Lothian — 
 1616-1671— printed in 1875 for private circulation, brought £4, 4s. 
 
 " The total sum realised by the day's sale>as £361, 13s. 6d."
 
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 Second Day's Sale, Wednesday, 28th April, 1880. — "The sale of the Maid- 
 ment library was resumed yesterday in Chapman's Rooms, Edinburgh. The lots 
 disposed of, numbering 357, included some of the most valuable works in the 
 collection, and by the day's sale the sum of ,£387, 18s. 6d. was realised. Among 
 the octavo volumes there was perhaps not a more interesting work than that 
 entitled ' Burnsiana : Poems ascribed to Burns, not contained in any edition of 
 his works.' (Glasgow, 1801). 2 volumes. Besides 'The Fornicators' Court,' 
 and ' The Election,' there was bound up with these volumes a curious collection 
 of newspaper cuttings, critiques, letters, fac-similes, portraits, &c, gathered from 
 the most varied sources. One of the relics was the original MS. of the following 
 lines from ' Tarn o' Shanter,' which the poet afterward omitted at the sugges- 
 tion of Mr. Tytler of Woodhouselee : — 
 
 'Three lawyer's tongues turn'd inside out 
 
 Wi' lies, seem'd like a beggar's clout ; 
 
 And priests' hearts, rotten, black as muck, 
 
 Lay stinking, vile, in every neuk.' 
 There was also a printed copy of Wordsworth's letter to a friend of Burns' in 
 reference to an intended publication of a Life of Burns by Dr. Currie. Of the 
 newspaper cuttings one of the most interesting was the following: — 'An elegant 
 arm-chair, formed from the rafters which "dirled" to the pipes of Auld Nick in 
 Alloway Kirk, has been presented to the Earl of Eglinton by a gentleman in 
 Ayr. The chair is of the Gothic form, handsomely ornamented with the Scottish 
 thistle, plough, harrow, &c, and the whole poem of " Tarn o' Shanter " engraven 
 on brass, is indented into the wood.' Below the cutting is a note to the effect 
 that the gentleman who had made this gift was ' a barber in Ayr of the name of 
 Auld,' and on the opposite page Mr. Maidment had written : ' In return for the 
 arm-chair, made out of the stolen rafters of " Auld Alloway Kirk " by the spirited 
 barber mentioned on the opposite page, the Earl of Eglinton gave a service of 
 silver plate. Mr. Auld, seeing that the speculation had turned out so profitably, 
 and having on hand some remaining fragments of the " roof and rafters," eked 
 out another arm-chair, with the help of some old oak wood, which had never 
 seen either Alloway or the Kirk, and sent it by way of a present to His Majesty 
 
 King George IV., who .' Here, unfortunately, the writer has stopped, and 
 
 left the reader in ignorance as to the sequel of these ingenious transactions. 
 Among the other newspaper cuttings is one which announced that ' the Ayrshire 
 bard, Mr. Burns, has, at his own expense, erected a monument or headstone in 
 the Canongate Churchyard over the grave of the late Mr. Fergusson ' (Robert 
 Fergusson, the poet, who died in 1774). A similar extract stated that 'the 
 veritable original of Burns' celebrated Dr. Hornbook, a highly respectable 
 individual, who long held an office of some consideration in a neighbouring 
 barony, died last week.' The enumeration of the contents of these volumes 
 would occupy more space than can now be spared. There are specimen pages of 
 the original edition of Burns' poems, reviews of the poet's life, including that by 
 Alexander Peterkin ; the notice of Burns' death which appeared in the Dumfries 
 Courier; cuttings from the Scotsman of 1823 in reference to the poet's monument 
 at Ayr ; and a great variety of other interesting matter. The price obtained for 
 this unique collection was £9. Three volumes, entitled ' Byroniana ' contained a 
 collection similar to that relating to Burns. Among the contents were poems 
 on Byron's domestic circumstances, published in 1817; 'English Bards and 
 Scotch Reviewers,' first edition, 1809; the 'Lament of Tasso,' 1817; and a 
 sermon on the death of Byron by 'a Layman,' 1824. Some curious marks and 
 comments had been made on the ' Lament of Tasso,' by some former possessor, 
 whose critical spirit had led him to strike out the last five or six lines of the 
 poem, which he described in a note appended as 'trash.' There were also 
 cuttings of all sorts in reference to the poet, as well as portraits and plates. The 
 three volumes were sold for £9, 10s. Considerable interest attached to a work 
 of eleven volumes, which bore the title, ' Queen Caroline,' and which afforded a
 
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 remarkable example of Mr. Maidment's care, assiduity, and skill as a collector. 
 They consisted of a collection of rare pamphlets, tracts, poems, caricatures, 
 portraits, broadsides, newspaper cuttings, &c, relating to Queen Caroline, the 
 period embraced by the series extending from 1796 to 1823. The work was 
 evidently the result of many years' collecting. Among the contents was a copy 
 of ' A Bill to deprive Her Majesty Caroline Emelia Elizabeth of the title, 
 prerogatives, rights, privileges, &c, of Queen Consort of this realm, and to 
 dissolve the marriage between His Majesty and the Queen.' Then there was a 
 broadside headed ' Triumph of the Queen,' and stating that, on the morning of 
 its publication, in the House of Lords the Duke of Bedford made 'a very 
 animated speech, which we regret our limits will not allow us to give, and con- 
 cluded with the following sentence, " looking at the whole of the case, I can lay 
 my hand on my heart and conscientiously say — Not guilty, on my honor." 
 (Hear, hear.) The Lord Chancellor followed, after which the House divided, 
 when there appeared for the bill 108 ; against it 99 ; upon which Lord Liverpool 
 moved that the bill be read this day six months, which is equal to the abandon- 
 ment of the measure, and confirms the triumph of the Queen. God save the 
 Queen.' Another broadside contained 'A full and particular account of the 
 death of Queen Caroline.' For this collection the price obtained was £20. 
 ' Burke and Hare ' was the title of two singular volumes, containing an account 
 of the West Port murders, with relative cuttings, portraits, &c, and a volume in 
 quarto, filled with broadsides and other notices on the same subject. Among 
 the extracts were whole pages of the Caledonian Mercury and other journals, 
 containing reports of these notorious trials, and the collection also embraced 
 many curious illustrations, some of them coloured. The price brought was £17. 
 Good sums were realised for two sets of rare old chap books, lettered ' Popular 
 Poetry.' The first contained miscellaneous ballads, garlands, and songs, including 
 ' King for a Consul,' ' Lincolnshire Knight,' ' The Three Herrings in Sa't,' ' The 
 wee Wifukie,' ' The Fumbler's Rant,' ' Captain Delany's Garland,' with some MS. 
 notes by Mr. Maidment, in seven volumes, and brought £10, 15s. ; and the 
 second, which embraced tragedies, histories, historical ballads, and many curious 
 pieces, with cuttings and MS. notes, in 7 vols., was sold for £11, 5s. A work 
 interesting to bibliographers was 'GSuvres de Bruscambille ' (1626), which bore 
 a note by Fraser, in which he said, 'Mr. Shandy has the good fortune, we are 
 told, to get Bruscambille's Prologue on Noses almost for nothing — that is, for 
 three half crowns. " There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendom," said 
 the stallman, " except what are chained up in the libraries of the curious." My 
 father flung down the money as quick as lightning, took Bruscambille into his 
 bosom, hyed home from Picadilly to Colman Street with it as he would have 
 hyed home with a treasure, without taking his hand from Bruscambille all the 
 way (Tristram Shandy, Vol. III.) This is excellently calculated to excite the 
 appetite of literary epicures, but the book in question is not sufficiently enter- 
 taining to gratify much expectation. It consists of occasional prologues in prose, 
 a species of amusement much in vogue during the reign of Louis XIII.' The 
 book was knocked down for £1, 5s. A collection entitled ' Buteiana,' containing 
 ' Angelicus and Fergusia' (1761), 'The New Highland Adventurer in England,' 
 ' Mortimer,' an historical play, &c, was sold for £4, 4s. Nicol Burne's ' Disputa- 
 tion concerning the Controversit Headdis of Religion, haldin in the Realme of 
 Scotland betuix the Pretendid Ministeris of the Deformed Kirk in Scotland and 
 Nicol Burne' (1581), brought £8, 18s. 6d. Avery rare little book entitled 
 ' Papers on the Clanronald Controversy' (Edinburgh, 1818-21), brought £5 ; and 
 a ' History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans of the Northern part of 
 Scotland' (1764), published from an MS. 'wrote in the reign of King James 
 VI.,' was sold for £1, 7s. For another extremely rare work, a collection of 
 poems and verses, by William Cleland (1697), £4, 15s. was given ; and £5, 10s. 
 was paid for ' Clio and Euterpe ; or British Harmony, a collection of celebrated 
 songs and cantatas by the most approved masters,' three volumes (1759). Among
 
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 the other octavo volumes sold were—' A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, 
 Pightland-Firth, and Caithness' (1701), by J. Brand, £2, 8s. ; a 'New Invention 
 intituled Calligraphia' (1622), by David Browne, £2, 3s. ; Sir Thomas Browne's 
 works, with Life and Correspondence, edited by Wilkin, 4 vols. (1836), ,£3, 2s. ; 
 Sir Egerton Brydge's 'Excerpta Tudoriana,' or 'Extracts from Elizabethan 
 Literature,' £3 ; 'Truth, its Manifest,' Buchanan (1645), £1, 16s. ; 'Historical 
 Sketch of the Family of Carrick,' privately printed in 1824, £2, 18s. ; Chatteris' 
 ' Life of Colonel Don Francisco, with effigy of Colonel Don Francisco under 
 sentence of death in Newgate,' £2, 2s. 
 
 " The most valuable quarto work was a remarkably fine old edition of Don 
 Quixote, translated by Thomas Shelton, and published in 1612-20. There were 
 two volumes, bound in red morocco, with engraved frontispieces ; but Vol. I. 
 had no letterpress title. For this work the large price of £28 was obtained. 
 ' Proscenium Vitae Humanae sive Emblematum Secularium ' (1627), containing 
 numerous plates, brought £6, 5s. ' An Account of the Depredations committed 
 on the Clan Campbell during 1685 and 1686,' edited by Kincaid, was sold for 
 £2, 4s. ' Caledonia, an account of North Britain,' by G. Chalmers, was knocked 
 down for £6, 17s. 6d. The first edition of the ' Cloud of Witnesses for the 
 Prerogative of Jesus Christ' (1714), brought £2, 15s. 
 
 " A number of valuable folios were also sold. ' Actis of the Realm e of Scotland' 
 (the Black Acts), black letter (Edinburgh, 1566), regarding which Mr. Maidment 
 had written that it had five leaves which do not occur in the copy purchased at 
 Chalmers' sale by the Faculty of Advocates, was sold for £10, 5s. A collection 
 of over 500 old broadsides, chiefly relating to Scotland, in seven volumes (1615 
 to 1 804, brought £10, 15s. ; and other two similar collections brought respectively 
 £4, 17s. 6d. and £2, 6s. 
 
 " The sale will be continued to-day." 
 
 Third Day's Sale, Thursday, 29th April, 1880.—" Though the works sold 
 yesterday were not quite so valuable as those sold on Tuesday and Wednesday, 
 the 368 lots disposed of included a good many rare and interesting volumes. The 
 highest price obtained for any single volume was brought by Dibdin's ' Biblio- 
 mania' (London, 1811), which sold for £8, 5s. The copy in question formerly 
 belonged to Joseph Bain, younger of Morriston, in whose handwriting there was 
 an MS. key. Additional portraits and bibliographical scraps had been inserted 
 by Mr. Maidment. Dibdin's ' Biographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour 
 in the Northern Counties and in Scotland,' 2 vols. (1838), brought £3, 15s. A 
 little book, with steel clasps, entitled ' A Conference about the next Succession to 
 the Crowne of Ingland,' by R. Doleman (1594), was sold for £7. It contained a 
 portrait of Parsons the Jesuit, one of the authors, and a genealogical table which 
 is generally missing from copies of the work. The volume is ' divided into two 
 partes, whereof the first conteyneth the discourse of a ciuill lawyer, how and in 
 what manner propinquity of blood is to be proved ; and the second the speech of 
 a temporall lawyer about the particular titles of all such as do and may pretende 
 within Ingland or without to the next succession.' ' This book,' Mr. Maidment 
 had written, ' on its first appearance, excited so much alarm that it was accounted 
 as most heinous and scandalous to possess a copy. The printer is said to have 
 been hanged, drawn, and quartered.' There were several interesting works relat- 
 ing to old Edinburgh. One of these was a volume containing ' Chambers' Re- 
 markable Fires in Edinburgh,' 1824, interleaved with numerous notes by Mr. 
 Maidment ; a 'Sermon on the Dreadful Fire of February, 1700,' and a number 
 of newspaper cuttings, &c. It was knocked down for £1, 10s. A collection of 
 Edinburgh facetiae contained some curious relics of the light literature of sixty 
 years ago. Besides several pamphlets directed against the Whigs, there were a 
 number of broadsides with pasquinades, in which the names of some of the most 
 prominent litterateurs of that day appeared. One of these took the form of a
 
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 playbill. The principal piece was ' School for Scandal,' and among the dramatis 
 personce were Sir Walter Scott, who was set down for the part of ' Sir Oliver 
 Surface,' and to dance a pas seulj Mr. James Hogg as ' Sir Peter Teasle ; ' Mr. 
 Wilson as ' Joseph Surface ; ' and Mr. William Blackwood, who was then to make 
 ' his last appearance on this stage previous to entering upon the management of 
 the BUlingsgate Theatre,' as ' Crabtree.' In the harlequinade Sir Walter Scott 
 was to play ' " Waverhoe " (afterwards pantaloon),' and Mr. Hogg, ' Eltrivo Porco, 
 a booby who stickles much upon his gentility (always clown.) ' The volume, in 
 which there were also MS. notes, was sold for £2. Another interesting collection 
 of tracts and newspaper cuttings relating to old Edinburgh, including a quaint 
 dialogue in verse between a farmer and a townsman, and a report of an address 
 delivered to his constituents by Mr. Moncreiff, M.P. for Edinburgh, in 1867, 
 brought £2, 2s. A little volume relating to the College Riots in Edinburgh in 
 1838, embracing a report of the trial of the students, and a selection of poetical 
 compositions and squibs, brought £1, 4s. ' Westminster Drollery, or a choice 
 Selection of the Newest Songs and Poems both at Court and Theatre' (1671), 
 brought £3, 10s. One of the ' droleries ' contained in this interesting little book 
 was the following ' Bachelor's Song ' : — 
 
 < Like a Dog with a Bottle fast ty'd to his tail, 
 Like a Vermin in a Trap or a Thief in a Jail, 
 Like a Tory in a Bog, 
 Or an Ape with a Clog, 
 
 Even such is the man who when he may go free, 
 Does his Liberty lose 
 In a matrimony noose, 
 And sells himself into Captivity. 
 
 ' The Dog he doth howl when the Bottle doth jog, 
 The Vermin, the Thief, and the Tory in vain 
 Of the Trap, of the Jail, of the Quagmire complain ; 
 But well fare poor Pug, 
 For he plays with his Clog ; 
 
 And though he would be rid on't'rather than his life, 
 Yet he hugs it and tugs it as a Man does his Wife.' 
 
 D'Urfey's ' Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, being a Collection of 
 the Most Mery Ballads and Songs, Old and New,' with music (Lond. 1719-20), 
 6 volumes, was sold for £8, 7s. 6d. Combe's ' Life of Napoleon,' a Hudibrastic 
 poem, by Dr. Syntax, with 30 coloured plates by Cruikshank (1817), brought 
 £2, 14s. The ' Genuine Lives of Captain Cranstoun and Miss Mary Blandy ' 
 (1753) was knocked down for £3, 6s. For 'Punch and Judy,' with coloured 
 illustrations by George Cruikshank (1828), £2, 8s. was given ; and Edward Curie's 
 'Venus in the Cloister' (1731) was sold for ,£4. A volume of Antiquarian Tracts 
 by John G. Dalyell (1809-28) reached £2, 18s. A 'Vindication of the Scots 
 Colony at Darien' (Edinburgh, 1699-1700) was sold for £4, 10s. Defoe's 
 ' Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders' (1721) went for ,£3, 16s. ; 
 and Dickens' ' Memoirs of Joseph Griraaldi,' illustrated by George Cruikshank 
 (1838), was knocked down for £5, 10s. For Michael Drayton's 'Nymphidia' 
 (1814) £3, 12s. was obtained. Dry den's works, with notes and life of the author, 
 by Sir Walter Scott (1821), 18 vols., brought £11, 5s. ; and for William Dunbar's 
 poems, edited by David Laing (1834-65), 2 vols., £3, 7s. was given. £4, was 
 obtained for ' Memoirs of Lord Viscount Dundee, the Highland Clans, and the 
 Massacre of Glencoe ' (1714), by an officer of the army. A quarto volume 
 entitled ' Coates Armoriall of several Knights and Gentlemen as they are Mat- 
 riculat in the New Register of Armes in the Lyon Office,' in MS., regarding which 
 Mr. Maidment wrote ' this transcript was made by Robert Mylne, the well-known 
 Scottish Antiquary,' was sold for £2, 16s, ' Collectanea Curiosa,' which contained 
 a ' List of the Sporting Ladies who arrived to take their pleasure at Leith Races, 
 1776 ;' the same for 1777 ; 'Sporting Ladies' Reply,' MS. notes, &c, was sold 
 for £4. Twelve lots of reprints, J. Payne Collier's, realised in all £42, 17s. 6d.,
 
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 one of these, ' Illustrations of Early English Popular Literature,' in 2 vols., bring- 
 ing ,£14, 14s. ; and another, ' Illustrations of Old English Literature,' in 3 vols., 
 £14, 3s. 6d. Thomas Dekker's ' English Villanies Discovered by a Lanthorne 
 and Candlelight' (1638) was sold for £5 ; and ' The Bachelor'siBanquet,' by the 
 same author, brought £3. 
 
 " The proceeds of the day's sale amounted to £330, 9s." 
 
 Fourth Day's Sale, Friday, 30th April, 1880.— "The fourth instalment of 
 the Maidment collection was sold yesterday in Chapman's Eooms, Edinburgh. 
 The sum realised for the 328 lots disposed of was £297, 6s. 6d., which brings the 
 total proceeds of the first four days' sale up to £1377, 7s. 6d. The highest 
 figure paid for any single volume yesterday was £11, 0s. 6d. The book for 
 which this price was obtained was a little thin volume, entitled ' Cantus, Songs, 
 and Fancies to Three, Four, or Five Parts, with a brief Introduction to Musick 
 as it is taught in the Musick School of Aberdeen' (1682), by John Forbes. 
 There was sold for £8, 15s., ' The History of the Ancient, Noble, and Illustrious 
 Family of Gordon, from their first arrival in Scotland in Malcolm III.'s Time to 
 the year 1690, together with a History of the most remarkable transactions in 
 Scotland from the beginning of Robert I. his reign to that year 1690,' by Wm. 
 Gordon of Old Aberdeen, 2 vols. (1726.) 'A Concise History of the Antient 
 and Illustrious House of Gordon,' by C. A. Gordon, Aberdeen (1754), brought 
 £2, 12s. Some of the most interesting and valuable works were those consisting 
 of collections of old poems, ballads, pamphlets, cuttings, &c. Among these were 
 a couple of volumes, lettered ' Criminal Registers,' which contained a remarkable 
 collection of old portraits, including those of most of Guy Fawkes' associates in 
 the Gunpowder Plot, and many other notable conspirators and criminals, and 
 numerous reports of celebrated trials, with relative magazine and newspaper 
 notices. This unique collection brought £8. There were several collections of 
 ' Scottish Fugitive Poetry.' The most valuable of these was comprised in two 
 volumes, edited by David Laing, of which only 72 copies were printed — (Edin. 
 1825-53) — and which were sold for £12, 5s. Another collection, in two volumes 
 (1801-55), brought £2, 14s. ; and 11 other volumes (1769-1835) were knocked 
 down for £5, 15s. A volume entitled 'Fugitive Pieces in Verse,' including 
 Wrangham's ' Specimens of Horace,' of which only 50 copies were printed, 
 brought £1, 15s. A number of volumes of 'Facetiae,' were sold for good prices. 
 One, which contained 'A Dialogue between a Married Lady and a Maid' (1744), 
 'The Quaker's Art of Courtship' (1770), 'Jemmy Twitche'r's Jests' (1772), and 
 'Laugh and be Fat' (1783), was knocked down for £4. For a curious collection 
 of ' Scottish Facetiae,' including numerous broadsides, street ballads, newspaper 
 cuttings, and MSS., in one vol., £2, 8s. was given. Among the relics in this 
 collection were the ' Rules and Regulations of the Edinburgh Quizzical Club, 
 1812.' One of the many amusing cuttings ran as follows: — 'Two gentlemen 
 standing upon the Calton Hill on a fine summer's day, one of them, who was 
 ambitious of being thought a poet, said to the other, " I have made one excellent 
 line, but cannot find a fellow to it." " Repeat your line," said his companion. 
 " Here we may see upon the Northern shore." 
 
 " Add," said the other, 
 
 " Kinghorn still standing where it stood before." ' 
 
 Another interesting collection of facetiae contained the ' King's Majesties Declara- 
 tion concerning Lawfull Sports' (London, 1631) printed on his return from 
 Scotland ; an ' Answer to the Book of Sports, or a Vindication of K. Charles I.' 
 (1648) ; ' King James, his Apopthegmes or Table Talke, as they were by him 
 delivered occasionally, and by the publisher (his quondam servant) carefully
 
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 received, and now humbly offered to the publique view as not impertinent to 
 the present times,' by B. A. Gent; 'The Prince of Tartaria, his voyage to 
 Cowper in Fife,' &c. This volume was sold for £1, 12s. Among the other 
 collections of facetiae was one which embraced 'The Lawyer's Clarke Trepanned,' 
 and a number of chap-books and pamphlets, and which went for £2, 10s'. 
 £6, 10s. was obtained for a collection of 'Fugitive Pieces,' which embraced 
 'Alexandra Julii Edinburgeni Silvarum Liber' (Edin. 1614); ' Epithalamium 
 Domini Kethi ;' 'Epithalamium Comitis Lothiame,' and six others, in one vol. 
 (Edin. 1607-14.) Regarding this book, Mr. Maidment had written—' This very 
 rare collection of fugitive pieces was, for upwards of two centuries, in the library 
 at Tyninghame. Dr. Jamieson having taken a fancy to it, the Earl of Hadding- 
 ton presented it to the distinguished lexicographer—" To Dr. Jamieson, from his 
 humble servt., Haddington." I bought it at the sale of Dr. Jamieson's library.' 
 Bishop Forbes' ' Funerals of a Right Reverend Father in God, Patrick Forbes of 
 Corse, Bishop of Aberdene' (1627), brought £4, 10s. The same author's 
 ' Eubulus, or a Dialogue wherein a rugged Romish Rhyme (inscrybed Catholicke 
 Questions to the Protestant) is confuted, and the questions thereof answered by 
 P. A.' (1627), was sold for £4. £3, 10s. was given for ' Epithalamium, and 
 Becerus, Gratiarum Actio ad Deum et Congratulatio Frederici V.' (Heidel. 
 1615), by J. Forbesii, regarding which there was the following note by Mr. 
 Maidment :— ' This epithalamium in honour of the marriage of the Count 
 Palatine and Elizabeth, afterwards better known as the Queen of Bohemia, is 
 presumed to be unique. The author was an Aberdonian, but no information 
 about him has been discovered.' A ' Genealogy of the House of Drummond,' 
 with plate of arms, edited by David Laing, and of which only 100 copies were 
 printed for private circulation (Edin. 1831), brought £3. A curious collection 
 of pamphlets, ' published on occasion of the present unaccountable Rebellion, 
 and on other important and critical occasions from 1724-45,' was sold for £4 5s. 
 It contained a ' Vindication of the Brewers of Edinburgh,' and a ' Proposal for 
 Retrieving the Sinking State of the Good Town of Edinburgh.' £1, 2s. was 
 given for ' A New and Easy Project of Making the Water of Leith Navigable, 
 whereby Ships may pass and enter the North-Lough,' which bore no date, and 
 of which the copy in Laing's collection was the only other that Mr. Maidment 
 had been able to trace. The principal other works were — 'The Dancing 
 Master ; or the Art of Dancing explained,' translated from the French of M. 
 Romeaux by J. Essex (1744), £2, 14s.; 'The Day, a Morning Journal of 
 Politics, Art, and Fashion,' edited by Dr. Strang, Chamberlain of Glasgow 
 (1832), £2 ; ' Cromwelliana,' a chronological detail of events in which Oliver 
 Cromwell was engaged, by Stace, with numerous portraits and plates inserted 
 (1810), £3, 8s. ; George Crawfurd's 'History of the Royal and Illustrious Family 
 of the Stewarts' (Edinburgh, 1710), £2 ; 'The most Famous, Delectable, and 
 Pleasant History of Parsimus, Prince of Bohemia' (1689), £2, 10s. ; a collection 
 of 'English Historical Tracts' (1641-1703), £2; and English Historical Pam- 
 phlets, £1, 17s. ; a collection of papers, deeds, condescendence, &c, relating to 
 the Douglas Cause (1762), with MS. notes by John Davidson, the well-known 
 Scottish Antiquary, £4; 'Diurnals of the Passages in Parliament, from 11th 
 January 1641, -to 22d March 1646, with contemporary sheets, informations, &c.,' 
 3 vols., £5 ; Donaldson's ' Toothpick for Swearers,' and other tracts (1698), 
 £1, 12s. ; Joseph Glanvile's 'Saducimus Triumphatus, or Full and Plain Evid- 
 ence concerning Witches and Apparitions,' 2 parts (1681-82), £2, 18s. ; ' Gemma 
 Antiqua,' £1, 12s. ; ' Gallerie des Femmes Fortes, par Pierre le Moyne ' (1660), 
 £3, 2s. ; ' Funeral Ceremonies performed at Rome in honour of the Princess 
 Clementina Sobieski,' &c. (1735), £4, 10s.; 'Frolics of Cupid,' £2; 'Fraser- 
 Lovat' (1795), £2, 12s. ; Farley's ' Lychnocarsia, sive, Moralia Facum Emble- 
 mata,' &c, 2 vols. (1638), £4, 14s. ; ' The Art of Graveing and Etching' bv W 
 Faithorne (1662), £4, 8s. J
 
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 Fifth Day's Sale, Monday, 3rd May, 1880.—" The sale of the Maidment 
 collection was resumed yesterday in Chapman's Rooms, Edinburgh. Though the 
 lot disposed of was less valuable than those which have preceded and will follow, 
 the prices realised amounted to about £230, which brings the total proceeds of 
 the first five days' sale up to over ,£1600, while there yet remain about two-thirds 
 of the collection to be sold. Of the high priced volumes sold yesterday, that 
 which reached the largest figure was a little book of poems by the late Earl of 
 Haddington (1824), which was knocked down for £11, 15s. It bore the follow- 
 ing note by Mr. Maidment : — ' Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe told me that many 
 of the verses of Lord Haddington were still preserved at Tyninghame. He said 
 that there was little doubt as to his authorship of the following poems, which at 
 the period his lordship flourished would not, judging from Carlyle's remarkable 
 account of the freedom of discourse, even among the clergy of the time, I 
 suspect, be thought very objectionable.' £10, 15s. was obtained for two volumes 
 by James Heath (London, 1663-64), the first consisting of 'A Brief Chronicle of 
 the Late Intestine Warr in the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and 
 Ireland, with affairs of Treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto,' &c. ; 
 and the second containing ' The Democracy ; or, Pretended Free State,' ' The 
 Abolition of the Regal Government and the House of Lords,' ' The Trial and 
 Execution of the Duke of Hamilton,' &c. For ' The English Rogue Described, 
 in the Life of Meriton Latroon, being a Compleat Discovery of the most eminent 
 Cheats of Both Sexes, 1 by R. Head (London, 1668-80), 4 vols, in 2, £7, 15s. was 
 given. On the title page of this work there was the following quaint motto — 
 ' Man's life's a play, the world a stage, whereon 
 Learn thou to play, or else be play upon.' 
 
 ' Golagrus and Gawane,' and other ancient poems, printed at Edinburgh by W. 
 Chepman and A. Myllar, in the year 1508, edited by David Laing, black letter 
 reprint (1827), brought £7, 10s. A curious collection, entitled ' Memorabilia of 
 the City of Glasgow, selected from the Minute-Books of the Burgh, 1588-1750,' 
 edited by John Smith, and printed for private circulation in 1835, was sold for 
 ,£5, 15s. £3, lis. was given for ' A True Narrative of Glenco Massacre, 1704,' 
 along with which there was bound a ' Penny History ' of the Massacre of Glenco, 
 published at Paisley in 1819. A couple of works relating to the game of golf 
 were sold. The first, consisting of ' Poems on Golf,' printed for private circula- 
 tion in 1867, brought £2, 2s. ; the second was a presentation copy of a volume, 
 also privately printed, entitled ' Golf, a Royal and Ancient Game,' edited by 
 R. Clark, with plates and woodcuts (1875), and was sold for £3, 6s. A unique 
 collection of pamphlets and cuttings, relating to Home's ' Tragedy of Douglas,' in 
 1 vol., realised £3, 5s. There was sold for £3 an interesting volume containing 
 'Brace's The Court Cave; or, The Hospitable Gypsies' (Edinburgh, 1816); 
 ' Chambers's Exploits and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Gypsies in the 
 South of Scotland' (1821); and the 'History of Thomas Mitchell, Born and 
 Educated among the Gypsies ' (1816). Regarding the second tract, Mr. Maid- 
 ment had written — 'This tract is from the pen of William Chambers of Glen- 
 ormiston, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1867-68. He told me that it was his first 
 publication when in a very humble way — that it has become very scarce, &c.' 
 £2 was given for a little book published in 'Aberdene' in 1626, by Raban, 
 entitled 'Popish Glorying, in Antiquitie turned to their Shame, whereby is 
 shown that whereunto they pretend to carrie great reverence, they wrong, vilifie, 
 and disgrace, and are most guilty of that which they upbrayde to others,' by 
 William Guild. 'A Facile Traictise contenand first, ane infallible reul to 
 discerne trew from fals religions ; nixt, a declaration of the nature, numbre, 
 vertew, and effects of the Sacraments, togider with certaine prayers of deuotion,' 
 by John Hamilton (Louvain, 1600), was sold for £3. This work was 'dedicat 
 to his Soverain Prince the King's Majestie of Scotland, King James the Saxt, be 
 Maister Jhone Hamilton, Doctor in Theologie.' ' Hogarthiana ' was the title of
 
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 a volume containing a collection of poems, newspaper cuttings, and portraits 
 relating to Hogarth and his works. It was sold for £2, 4s. ' England's Griev- 
 ance Discovered in relation to the Coal Trade,' which contained a number 
 of portraits and woodcuts, including the portrait of Oliver Cromwell (London, 
 1G55), by Kalph Gardner, brought £3, Is. A collection of papers relating to the 
 house of Hamilton, among which were ' Anderson's Memoirs of the House of 
 Hamilton, with Supplement' (1825), and ' Memoirs of the House of Hamilton,' 
 corrected (1828), was knocked down for £3, 4s. For George Hibbert's ' Tales of 
 the Cordelier Metamorphosed, as narrated in a Manuscript from the Borromeo 
 Collection, and in the Cordelier Cheval of M. Pirou,' of which only 40 copies 
 were privately printed, £3, 10s. was given. A folio volume, entitled 'A 
 Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland, from its origin to the year 
 1630, with a continuation to the year 1651,' by Sir Robert Gordon, edited by 
 Weber (Edinburgh, 1813), was sold for £3. Among the other works were— 
 ' Memoirs of the Family of Grace,' privately printed in 1823, £1, 14s. ; ' The 
 Family Letters of Sir Robert Graham of Redgorton' (1745-93), of which, accord- 
 ing to a note by Mr. Maidment, only 12 copies were printed (1857), £1, 12s. ; 
 C.° C. F. Greville's ' Journal of the Reigns of George IV. and William IV.' 
 (1874), 3 vols., ,£1, 13s.; Lord Hailes' 'Memorials and Letters relating to the 
 History of Britaiu in the Reigns of James I. and Charles I.' (1766), 2 vols., £1, 
 7s. ; Lord Hailes' ' Notes on the Statute Law of Scotland,' with autograph and 
 signature of the author, £1, 7s. ; the Hakluyt Society Publications, 11 vols. £3, 
 10s. ; ' Histoire Generate des Larrons,' par F. D. C. Lyonnois (Rouen, 1645), £1, 
 18s. ; ' History of the Last Fourteen Years, with an account of the Plot as it was 
 carried on, both before and after the Fire of London, to the Present Time (1680) 
 £2, 2s. ; ' History of the Irish Rogues and Rapparees' (Dublin, 1739), £1, 19s. ; 
 'An Academy for Grown Horsemen, and Annals and Horsemanship,' with 
 humorous plates after H. Banbury (1808), by Geoffrey Gambado, £1, 10s. ; 
 'West Country Intelligence ' (Glasgow, 1716), £1, 10s. ; 'Heliconia, a selection 
 of English Poetry of Elizabethan Age,' 3 vols. (1815), £2, 6s. ; ' The Honourable 
 Chieftains of the Highland Clans Vindicated (Lond. 1713), £2, 2s. ; ' Glasgow 
 Looking Glass and Northern Looking Glass,' by Heath (Glasgow, 1825-26), 
 £2, 5s." 
 
 Sixth Day's Sale, Tuesday, 4th May, 1880.—" The instalment of the Maid- 
 ment collection sold yesterday, included several works of great value, and higher 
 prices were realised than on any previous day of the sale. The large sum of £71 
 was given for a quarto volume, lettered ' Jacobite Relics,' which contained a 
 remarkable collection of documents, letters, portraits, &c, connected with the 
 Jacobites, including broadsides, dying speeches, proclamations, ballads, poems, 
 and original letters. Among the ballads was the original copy of ' Johnnie Cope,' 
 with music. One of the broadsides, published at Edinburgh in 1714, contained 
 'a character of the Royal Martyr King Charles I.,' which stated that 'he that 
 suffer'd was a King; and what is more, such a King as was not Chosen but 
 Born to it ; owing his kingdom not to the choice of Popularity, but the suffrage 
 of Nature. He was a David, a Saint, a King, but never a Skejriierd : All the 
 Blood in Christendom ran in his veins.' After alluding to the Prince's ' piety 
 and incomparable virtues,' a further comparison is drawn between him and the 
 kings of Israel, to the great advantage of Charles, and all the graces with which 
 he was adorned are dwelt upon. On another page there was in the original MS. 
 ' Lines made by the Master of Burlaigh to his Sister,' which ran as follows : — 
 ' Dear sister, I want words fitt to express 
 
 Thy daring love wch made you chang your dress, 
 
 And nobly to put on my cloaths and shap, 
 
 To save from death and favour my escap ;
 
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 And thought nothing heard nor ought a stain 
 To save thy brother, tho the worst of men. 
 Fear not the queen, thy courag will aprove, 
 She feels like you, no boy's fraternal love. 
 May she, O may she, emulat that thing, 
 And from Exile her Royal Brother bring.' 
 
 One of the poems relating to the Pretender commenced thus : — 
 
 ' The Christian Hero's martial looks were thine, 
 Mixt with the sweetness of the Stuart Line, 
 Courage with mercy, wit with virtue join'd, 
 A beauteous person, with more beauteous mind. 
 How wise ! how good when great ! how low, how brave ! 
 Who knows to suffer, conquer, and to save. 
 Such grace, such virtues, are by heaven design'd 
 To save Britannia, and to bless mankind.' 
 
 Among the original letters was one in the handwriting of Lord Lovat to ' Dear 
 Lochiel,' dated September, 1745 ; and the portraits were both numerous and 
 rare. This unique collection was purchased on commission for a gentleman in 
 Aberdeen, who, it may be mentioned, was also the purchaser of the remarkable 
 collection of papers and portraits relating to the Burke and Hare murders, sold 
 on the second day of the sale for ,£17. Another volume, containing a collection 
 of scraps, cuttings, &c, also relating to the Jacobite cause, was knocked down for 
 £5, 15s. Among the numerous newspaper cuttings in it was one dated July, 
 1769, which ran as follows : — 'They write from Rome that the Young Chevalier, 
 commonly called Prince Edward, was presented to the Pope by Cardinal York, 
 his brother, under the name of Baron d'Erford, a title anciently borne by the 
 sons of the Kings of Scotland.' A work of great interest consisted of two quarto 
 volumes containing a series of John Kay's portraits and etchings, regarding 
 which there was the following note by Mr. Maidment : — ' This collection of 
 Kay's portraits may be considered as unique. It contains the original letterpress 
 — subsequently suppressed — the composition of Kay himself, and which contains 
 matters too personal for publication. The copy was presented to me when 
 revising and altering the proofs — a work of much trouble — of the work published 
 in two volumes. Since then various newspaper scraps and cuttings have been 
 inserted.' The price obtained for these two volumes was £45. The purchasers 
 were Messrs. Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow, who have carried off a number of 
 valuable works from this collection, including ' Burnsiana' and ' Byroniana.' 
 Other two volumes containing a series of portraits and carricature etchings by 
 Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes, brought £18. 
 £14, 5s. was given for a quarto volume entitled ' Select Remains of the Ancient 
 Popular Poetry of Scotland,' edited by David Laing, and published in Edinburgh 
 in 1822. Only 108 copies of this work were printed. Another rare volume was 
 ' John Knoxe's Appellation from the Cruell and Unjust Sentence Pronounced 
 against him by the False Bishops and Clergie of Scotland' (Geneva, 1558), which 
 was sold for £13. 'John Knox's Liturgy : The Psalmes of David in Prose and 
 Meeter, with their whole tunes, in four or mo parts' (Edinburgh : A. Hart, 
 1635), brought £8, 10s. There was sold for £21, Holland's ' Herwologia Anglica,' 
 a folio volume, which contained a number of rare portraits, an engraved title, list 
 of plates, &c. (Impcnsis Crispini Passed Calcograpihus et Jansonij Bibliopoli 
 AmhemieTisis, 1620.) Captain Charles Johnson's 'History of the Lives and 
 Adventures of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c, 
 with the Voyages and Plunders of the most noted Pirates' (1742), realised 
 £6, 5s. For ' De Origine, Moribus et Rebus Gestis Scotorum, Libri decern' — 
 Archibald Constable's copy — (Romas, 1578), £6, 10s. was given. William 
 Lithgow's 'Discourse on the Siege of Breda' (Lond. 1637) brought £5, 5s. 
 Heywoode's ' Nine Books of Various History Concerninge Women' (1621), one
 
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 volume, brought £2, 4s. Among the many quaint advices and extracts in this 
 book there were quoted ' Seauen short questions asked of the seauen wise men 
 of Greece, and by them as briefly answered' :— 
 
 ' What's the best thing in man ? The mind that's pure. 
 
 What's worst 2 A man within himself unsure. 
 
 Who's rich ? He that nought couets. What's he poore ? 
 
 The couetous man that starves amid his store. 
 
 Woman's chiefe beautie, what 1 Chast life is such. 
 
 Who's chast ? She onely whom no fame dares tuch. 
 
 Who's wise ? The man that can, but acts no ill. 
 
 The foole ? That cannot, but intends it still.' 
 
 £4, 7s. 6d. was obtained for Leyden's ' Complaynt of Scotland,' written in 1548, 
 with dissertation and glossary by Sir James Inglis. On the title page of this 
 volume was the following sage advice : — 
 
 ' Redeth forthe to the end seriously, 
 
 For though old wrytynges apere to be rude, 
 Yet, notwithstandynge, they do include 
 The pythe of a mater most fructuously.' 
 
 For £5, 10s. there was sold an octavo volume, containing a curious collection of 
 
 story 
 
 Scott 5 , 2 vols. (Edin. 1811), was sold for £5, 5s. Among the other works were— 
 'The Scots Fencing Master,' by W. Hope (Edin. 1687), £2, 10s.; 'The 
 Wanderer and Traveller' (Glasgow, 1733)— regarding which Mr. Maidment 
 wrote, ' The author of this dramatic poem, John Hunter, was minister at Ayr'— 
 £2 ; ' The Jockey Club : or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age,' with numerous 
 portraits, cuttings, &c, 2 volumes (1792-94), £3; 'A Glass wherein Nobles, 
 Priests, and People may see the Lord's Controversies against Britain,' by Robert 
 Ker (1719), £2, 12s. ; 'The Unlucky Citizen, Experimentally described in the 
 Various Misfortunes of an Unlucky Londoner' (1(573), £2, 2s. ; a collection of 
 'Fugitive Pieces,' Alexander Laing (Aberdeen, 1820-23), £1, 9s.— this little 
 book contained a number of curious epitaphs, among which was the following 
 ' Epitaph on Provost Nicolson, Dundee, composed by his four Bailies ' :— 
 
 ' Here lies John Nicolson, Provost of Dundee ; 
 Here lies John Nicolson, here lies he ; 
 Here lies our good Provost, alas, wae's me, 
 Halleluja, Hallelujah.' 
 
 ' The Memoirs, Life, and Character of the great Mr. Law and his Brother at 
 Paris,' by Gray ; ' A full and impartial Account of the Company at Mississippi ;' 
 ' A Letter to Mr. Law upon his arrival in Great Britain ; ' ' The State of Mr. 
 Law Truly Stated ;' and a second letter to Mr. Law, in one volume (London, 
 1721), £3 ; 'The Life of John Law,' by John Philip Wood (Edinburgh, 1824), 
 £1, 16s. ; 'La Pucelle d'Orleans' (1764), £2, 14s. ; 'La Putain Errante' (1776), 
 £2, 6s. ; ' Les Cent Nouvelles,' two volumes, with plates, by De Hooge (Cologne, 
 1701), ,£3, 17s. 6d. ; Works printed by the Hunterian Club, nineteen parts 
 (1872-75), £1, lis. ; 'Jesuits' Catechism,' according to Loyola (1679), 'Cabinet 
 of the Jesuits' Secrets Opened,' and other tracts in one vol. (London, 1679), 
 £2, 6s. ; ' The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogos Pompeius, gathered and 
 written in the Latin Tung,' translated into English by Arthur Goldinge, 
 black letter (London, 1578), £2, 10s. ; Robert Kirk's 'Secret Commonwealth, or 
 a Treatise Displaying the Chief Curiosities as they are in Use among diverse of 
 the People of Scotland to this Day,' edited by Robert Jamieson, reprint of 100 
 copies (Edinburgh, 1815), £3, 16s. ; ' Memorialls of Robert Law, or the Memorable 
 Things that fell out within the Island of Brittain from 1638 to 1684,' edited by
 
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 C. K. Sharpe (1819), £1, 2s. ; ' Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Night,' &c. 
 (London, 1572), £1, 16s. ; ' Legeudae Catholicse, a Lytle Boke of Seyntlie Gestis,' 
 edited by W. B. D. D. Turnbull — 40 copies printed for presents (Edinburgh, 
 1840), £3, 4s. ; ' Hume's History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, Edin- 
 burgh, 1644), £2, 16s. 
 
 " The proceeds of the day's sale amounted to £411, 6s. 6d." 
 
 Seventh Day's Sale, Wednesday, 5th May, 1880. — " Owing to the alpha- 
 betical arrangement of the collection, the most valuable works are not confined 
 to any particular portion of the catalogue, but come to light from day to day as 
 the sale proceeds. The work which brought the highest price yesterday was an 
 octavo volume relating to Mary Queen of Scots (Edin. 1822), which was sold 
 for £32. Its contents consisted chiefly of matter relative to Queen Mary's 
 funeral, embracing a large number of rare portraits. There had also been in- 
 serted a collection of newspaper cuttings having reference to the destination of 
 certain relics of the Queen, as her veil, her diamond ring, her gloves, books, &c. 
 Among the extracts was an old cutting containing ' Queen Mary's Farewell to 
 France,' said to have been ' written by herself during her voyage to Scotland : ' — 
 
 ' 0, thou lov'd country where my youth was spent ! 
 Dear golden days, all spent in sweet content, 
 Where the fair morning of the clouded day 
 Shone mildly bright, and temperately gay ! 
 
 ' Dear France, adieu, a long and sad farewel ; — 
 No thought can image and no tongue can tell 
 The pangs I feel, at the sad word Farewel ! 
 
 ' The ship that wafts me from thy friendly shore 
 Conveys my body — but conveys no more. 
 My soul is thine, that spark of Heavenly flame, 
 That better portion of my mingled frame, 
 
 ' Is wholly thine ; that part I give to thee, 
 That in the temple of thy memory, 
 The other ever may enshrined be ! " 
 
 The purchasers were Messrs. Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow. The same firm carried 
 off, for £15, 10s., one of Mr. Maidment's publications, entitled ' Nugse Dere- 
 lictse quas Colligerunt, J. M. et R. P.,' a collection of eighteen tracts, privately 
 printed at various times by Mr. Maidment and Robert Pitcairn, W.S. Only 
 six complete sets of these tracts were supposed to exist, and in this copy was 
 inserted a holograph letter by Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Maidment, thanking him 
 for one of the tracts. Good prices were also obtained for several other copies 
 of Mr. Maidment's publications, of which there were seventy-one lots. These 
 included many literary relics of great interest and rarity. ,£8 was given for 
 'Excerpta Scotica' (1825), a collection of twenty-nine short pieces ' illustrative 
 of Scotish affairs.' ' Templaria, Papers relative to the History, Privileges, and 
 Possessions of the Scottish Knights Templars and their Successors, the Knights 
 of St. John of Jerusalem,' &c. (1828-29), brought £9, 5s. For ' Scotish Pas- 
 quils or Lampoons, now first printed from the original manuscripts,' with illus- 
 trative notices and notes (1827-28), 3 volumes, £5 15s. was given. These 
 lampoons were principally directed against the opponents of the House of Stuart. 
 ' Reliquiae Scoticse : Scottish Remains, in Prose and Verse, from original MSS., 
 and scarce Tracts' (1828), was sold for £4, 4s. A joint publication of 
 C. K. Sharpe and Mr. Maidment, entitled ' A Banquet of Dainties for Strong 
 Stomachs,' being a collection of ' Scotish Satirical Poems,' from Robert Myln's 
 MSS., and other sources prior to 1720 (1828), brought £4, 10s. For ' Nugae 
 Scotica?,' a collection of twenty-two separate brochures, £4, 2s. was obtained. 
 
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 £2, 10s. was given for a volume containing a copy of ' The Hubbleshue,' a 
 Memoir of Archibald M'Laren, dramatist, and ' Galations,' with some other 
 tracts relating to Edinburgh theatres. ' Analecta Scotica,' collections illustrative 
 of the civil, ecclesiastical, and literary history of Scotland, chiefly from original 
 MSS., 2 vols., brought £2, 18s. £4, 10s. was obtained for a collection of 
 ' Reports of claims preferred to the House of Lords in the cases of the Cassillis, 
 Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn Peerages,' with 'an appendix of curious 
 documents relative to the Oliphant Peerage (1633), and the decision in the 
 question of precedency between the Earl of Sutherland and the Earl of Craw- 
 ford,' &c. A collection of ' Scotish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Tradi- 
 tionary,' 2 vols. (1868), was sold for £3, 12s. ; and £3, 2s. was given for ' Sir 
 Thomas Overburie's Vision,' printed on vellum (Glasgow, 1873). ' The Wyll of 
 the Deuill, with his Ten detestable Commaundementes,' directed to his Obedient 
 and Accursed Children,' &c, brought £2, 2s. Four volumes of literary and 
 miscellaneous correspondence, addressed to Mr. Maidment by various corres- 
 pondents from 1812 to 1867, were sold for £5, 15s. The Maitland Club pub- 
 lications, numbering fifty-four lots, were sold separately, and realised in all 
 .£51, 8s., the highest price being £6, 10s., which was obtained for ' Registrum 
 Monasterii de Passelet, 1163-1529 ' (1832.) Among the miscellaneous lots there 
 was sold for £3, in one vol., ' Manducations to the Pallace of Trueth,' by F. B., 
 1616; ' Ctesar's Dialogues, or a Familiar Communication, containing the first 
 institution of a subject in allegiance to his Sovereign,' black letter, 1601, with 
 curious portrait of Queen Elizabeth ; and ' God and the King,' black letter, 
 1616. J. F. Marmontel's ' Contes Moraux,' 3 vols. (Amst. 1779), brought £6. 
 For M. Martin's ' Description of the Western Islands of Scotland,' first edition 
 (Lond., 1703), £4, 15s. was given. The ' Poetical Works of Janet Little,' ' the 
 Scotch Milkmaid' (Ayr, 1792), was sold for £2, 6s. For Lockhart's 'Life of 
 Burns' (Edin. 1828), 28s. was obtained. The work would probably not have 
 sold for as many pence but for the newspaper cuttings it contained. Besides 
 scraps relating to Burns' writings, to his cottage, his mausoleum, &c, there was 
 also an interesting report of a public festival held in London in 1819, in com- 
 memoration of Burns, and to promote a subscription to erect a national monu- 
 ment to his memory at Edinburgh. The Duke of Sussex presided, and among 
 the distinguished company was Thomas Moore. One of those who spoke was 
 Mr. Robert Burns who, ' in a speech every way worthy of the son of such a 
 father, returned his thanks for the honour done him (in drinking his health). 
 In confirmation of the observation of Sir James Mackintosh, that Burns was not 
 an uneducated man, he described the library of the poet, which, he said, con- 
 tained in it Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Goldsmith, Tasso, Voltaire, 
 Moliere, Boileau, Rousseau, and the immortal Shakespeare. It contained also 
 those Scotch poets who had a more immediate influence on the direction which 
 his poetical talents took. He was perfectly acquainted with the six books of 
 Euclid— was master of land surveying.' Mr. Walter Scott, it is stated, was then 
 proposed, and afterwards Mr. George Crabbe and the bards of Scotland. Sir 
 James Mackintosh having proposed ' The great national poet of Ireland — that 
 nation of Europe among whom eloquence and wit were most spontaneous,' Mr. 
 Moore, in returning thanks, ' observed that Burns was one whose very errors 
 were like one of his own mountain streams, that sparkles whilst it strays, and is 
 graceful even in its meanders.' 
 
 " The day's proceeds amounted to £358, 19s. 6d." 
 
 Eighth Day's Sale, Thursday, 6th May, 1880.— "Of the 5059 works in the 
 collection, 2689, or a little over one-half, have now been sold. The sum realised 
 is about £2686, yesterday's instalment having brought ,£308, 7s., and the books 
 which remain will probably fetch a larger amount than those already disposed of.
 
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 Four of the works sold yesterday brought over ,£12. The highest figure was 
 reached by 'Nouvelles de Marguerite, Rein de Navarre' (Berne, 1781), 3 vols., 
 which was knocked down for £22. These volumes contained a number of fine 
 plates and vignettes, and were the subject of a keen competition. £20 was the 
 price given for the ' Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript emblazoned 
 by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount,' edited by David Laing (Edin. 1822), and 
 of which only 100 copies were printed. ' Notes and Queries,' from the com- 
 mencement in 1849 to 1879, the first three series, and 2 vols, of the fourth 
 series, 38 vols., the remainder in parts, with four Indices and Universal Catalogue 
 of Books, brought £16, 10s. £12, 10s. was obtained for 'The Progresses, Pro- 
 cessions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, his Royal Consort, 
 Family, and Court' (Lond. 1828), 4 vols. For 'Facsimiles of the National 
 Manuscripts of Scotland,' by Colonel Sir Henry James (Southampton, 1867-71), 
 3 vols . folio, £9, 10s. was given. Though these were the lots which brought the 
 highest prices, there were many other smaller works of greater interest both to 
 bibliomaniacs and general readers. There was sold for £5, 15s. an octavo 
 volume containing several curious old treatises by Gervase Markham, entitled 
 respectively ' Cheape and Good Husbandry for the Well-ordering of all Beasts, 
 Fowls, &c.,' 1614 ; ' Countrey Contentment and the English Huswife,' 1615 ; 
 ' The English Husbandman,' black letter, in two parts ; and ' The Pleasure of 
 Princes ; or, Good Men's Eecreations, black letter, 1614. £3, 16s. was given 
 for an interesting relic consisting of the Session Register of the ' South-West 
 Church ' from 1665 to 1676, in MS., vellum ; it was imperfect at the beginning 
 and end. A little musty volume, entitled ' Memoires Eelating to the Eoyal Navy 
 for Ten Years to December 1688,' published in 1690, was sold for £3. One of 
 those remarkable collections, of which there were a number in this library, con- 
 tained a ' Eeport of the Trial of Mary M'Kinnon for Murder in the South 
 Bridge, Edinburgh,' a ' Biographical Account of her,' ' M'Kinnon's Garland,' 
 by C. K. Sbarpe, and numerous 'speeches,' ballads, MS., portraits, &c, in 
 1 vol. (1823). It brought £2, 16s. Several collections of original letters were 
 disposed of. £5, 5s. was given for two volumes containing holograph letters by 
 Lord Brougham, Lord Jeffrey, Lord Murray, Lord Craigie, the Marquis of 
 Downshire, Lord Cawdor, Lord President Boyle, Lord Traquaire, the Duke of 
 Roxburge, J. P. Collier, Cobbett, David Laing, and other well-known men, with 
 portraits and newspaper cuttings. Another volume containing original letters 
 and MS. documents, dating from 1463 to 1717, brought £2, 4s. ; and two 
 volumes of miscellaneous letters and autographs were sold for £2, 6s. There 
 was knocked down at £3, 5s. a work by Fynes Moryson, entitled ' An Itinerary 
 containing his Ten Yeeres Travell through Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, 
 Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and 
 Ireland' (Lond. 1617). £3, 5s. was given for Mark Napier's 'Letter to Sir 
 William Stirling Maxwell, Bart., tendering a respectful Remonstrance to the 
 Commissioners appointed under the Royal Commission for the Discovery of 
 Latent Historical Manuscripts' (Edinburgh, 1872), of which only 20 copies were 
 printed privately. For £3, 6s. there was sold a ' Narration of Proceedings in 
 Parliament, which began the 3rd of November, 1640, and the remarkable trans- 
 actions are continued untill this yeer, a work worthy to be kept in record and 
 communicated to posterity ' (London, 1651), which contained a number of curious 
 woodcuts. Among the other works were ' Mazarinades — a collection of Treatises 
 and Pamphlets,' in 1 vol. (1648-49), £3, 10s. ; ' Mary, Queen of Scots— Mait- 
 land's Narrative of the Principal Acts of the Regency,' of which only 50 copies 
 were printed by Dawson Turner for private friends (Ipswich, 1833, £2, 8s. ; 
 'Mirrour of Policie,' with woodcuts and tables of genealogy, &c. (1598), £2, 8s. ; 
 Miscellaneous Tracts, including ' Continuation of the Lamentable and Admirable 
 Adventures of Don Sebastian, King of Portugal,' London, 1603 ; A. Cooke's 
 'Pope Joane, a Dialogue,' London, 1625 ; ' Britannpe Natalis,' Oxon, 1630 ; R. 
 Carter's 'The Schismatic Stigmatised,' London, 1641, &c, in 1 vol., £3, 2s.;
 
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 ' The Lamp of Lothian ; or, History of Haddington,' by James Miller (Hadding- 
 ton, 1844), £2, 6s. ; 'Miscellanea Scotica,' a collection of tracts relating to the 
 history, antiquities, topography, and literature of Scotland, 4 vols, in 1 (Glasgow, 
 1818), ,£2, 8s. ; a collection of miscellanies, formerly in the library of Stephen 
 Jones (London, 1730-51), ,£1, 6s. ; 'An Theatre of Mortality ; or, The Epitaphs 
 over Scotland,' first edition (Edinburgh, 1704-13), £2, 14s. ; 'The True Crucifixe 
 for True Catholickes,' in verse, by Sir W. Moore (Edinburgh, 1629), £2, 10s. ; a 
 collection of cuttings from newspapers regarding Motherwell's life and works, 
 including a proof sheet of his edition of Burns's Poetical Works, with holograph 
 notes found in his pocket at the time of his death (circa, 1835), £2, 12s. ; 
 'Travels of Baron Munchausen' (London, 1793), 2 vols., £2, 4s. ; 'New Voyage 
 Bound the World by a Course Never Sailed Before,' by Defoe (London, 1725), 
 £2, 18s. ; Nimino's ' History of Stirlingshire,' continued by the Be v. W. M. 
 Stirling (Stirling, 1817), 2 vols. £2, 4s. ; ' Dessertationes de Bebus Magicis,' a 
 collection of pamphlets relating to magic (1584-1750), 4 vols., £4; Original 
 Portraits of the Marquis of Montrose and some of his friends, of which 40 copies 
 were printed (Edinburgh, 1856), £2, 14s. ; 'Newes from the New Exchange ; 
 or, the Commonwealth of Ladies drawn to the Life,' with MS. notes by C. K. 
 Sharpe and J. Maidment (London, printed in the year of women without grace, 
 1650), £2, 10s. ; ' News from Bohemia, Constantinople, &c,' (London, 1620-22), 
 £2, 8s. ; ' Leslie Family — Laurus, Leslseana, Explicata, sive clarior Enumeratio 
 Personarum Utriusque Sexus Cognominis Leslie' (Grsecii, 1692), £3, 5s. ; a 
 number of MS. Charters, including that for the lands of Hutton Hall, county of 
 Berwick, £2, 15s. ; ' Monumenta Historia Britannica ; or, Materials for the 
 History of Britain,' by Petrie and Hardy (London, 1848), £2, 6s. ; a volume 
 containing ' A Seasonable Warning to beware of the Lutherians, written by the 
 Tinclarian Doctor,' 1713 ; and the ' Petition of William Mitchell, whiteiron smith 
 in Edinburgh, to Queen Anne,' 1711 ; 'The Tinclarian's Letter to the King of 
 France,' and other tracts (Edinburgh, 1713), £2, 4s. ; Dr. Murner's ' Die Marien 
 Beschwerung ; or, Exorcism of Fools ' (Strasburg, circa 1512), £2." 
 
 Ninth Day's Sale, Friday, 1th May, 1880.— "The books sold yesterday 
 included, as usual, a number made up to a large extent of pamphlets, scraps, 
 and newspaper cuttings. One of the most remarkable of these was an octavo 
 volume lettered ' Peebles Politics,' which contained an extraordinary collection 
 of cuttings, circulars, and other specimens of election literature relating to the 
 political affairs of Peebles. An old hand-bill, headed ' The Beal State of 
 Peeblesshire-Voting,' contained the following statement, which referred, ap- 
 parently, though it bore no date, to the Parliamentary election for the county 
 in 1839 :— ' Polled, in all, for Mr. Carmichael, 245 ; Mr. Mackenzie, 251. 
 Deduct life-renters, commonly called mushrooms — Mr. Carmichael, 30 ; Mr. 
 Mackenzie, 94. Beal constituency polled — Mr. Carmichael, 215 ; Mr. Mackenzie, 
 157 : majority of resident voters for Mr. Carmichael, 58. Men of Peeblesshire, 
 can Mr. Mackenzie or his supporters say that he represents the opinions and 
 political feelings of Peeblesshire at a time when the number of fictitious and 
 mushroom votes have been declared by himself at the hustings " Abominable ? " ' 
 The collection also contained a copy of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie's circular to the 
 electors on again offering himself for election in 1841, besides a good deal of 
 other matter, referring principally to the controversy regarding fictitious voting 
 to local affairs. The book was sold for £5. There were knocked down for 
 £10, 10s. two beautifully-bound quarto volumes entitled 'The Palace of Pleasure 
 Beautified, Adorned, and Well-Furnished with Pleasant Histories and Excellent 
 Novels,' by William Painter, reprinted in 1813 from the edition of 1575, and 
 edited by Joseph Haslewood. Thirteen volumes of ' Popular Histories ' were 
 sold for £27. They included an extensive collection of chap books, comprising
 
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 nearly 350 pieces, published in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, London, Man- 
 chester, &c, with numerous MS. notes by Mr. Maidment. The works printed 
 for the Percy Society, 1840-52, thirty volumes, bound in morocco, brought 
 £23, 2s. For five volumes of ' Popular Poetry,' including a large number of 
 broadsides, ballads, chap books, &c, comprising about 1000 subjects, with news- 
 paper cuttings and illustrative matter, £16 was obtained. A number of the 
 ballads had been marked on the suggestion of Mr, C. K. Sharpe for re-publica- 
 tion. John Pinkerton's 'Vitae Antique Sanctorum Scotiee' (Londoni, 1789) 
 brought £4, 8s. Only a hundred copies of this work were printed. An interest- 
 ing little book was the 'Life of William Pitt,' published privately in 1816. 
 Appended was a series of newspaper cuttings, in which numerous reminiscences 
 of the great statesman were given. Among them was one entitled ' Good Tory 
 Customers,' quoted from the ' Life of J. H. Frere,' which ran as follows : — 
 ' When Pitt and Dundas supped, much wine was " slacked," as the Scotch say. 
 " Do you know who those gentlemen are ?" asked a traveller of the landlord of 
 the Rose at Sittingbourne, when Pitt and Dundas were just starting in a post- 
 chaise after sleeping at that famous inn on their first visit to Walmer Castle. 
 " They are Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and Mr. Dundas, First Lord of the 
 Admiralty." " I don't care what they are," said the landlord ; " but I know one 
 drank three bottles of port last night, and the other four ; that's what I call 
 customers." ' A curious little volume, entitled ' Polly Peachum's Jests,' was 
 sold for £2, 2s. ' The Image of Bothe Churches, Hierusalem and Babel ' 
 (Tornay, 1623), ascribed by some to Sir Forbes Matthew, but of which the 
 true author, according to a note by Mr. Maidment, is generally supposed to 
 be Dr. Mathew Paterson, was knocked down at £2, 6s. It contained many 
 interesting particulars relative to the Beformation in England. A volume 
 containing a collection of twenty 'Scottish Penny Histories' (1777-88), brought 
 £2 ; and there was sold for £3, 10s., a collection in one vol. of twenty 'Popu- 
 lar Histories,' including 'Wit's Public Wealth,' 1745; 'The High German 
 Fortune-Teller,' ' The Shoemaker's Glory,' &c. £3, 10s. was given for an inter- 
 esting collection of 'Proclamations of the Pretender' (Glasgow, 1745-46). A 
 large scrap-book containing a collection of sixty-eight engraved portraits of ladies, 
 after Beynolds, Watson, Russell, Knoller, Vandyck, Wissing, &c, brought 
 £5, 7s. 6d. ; and another volume containing numerous portraits of ' remarkable 
 characters,' with relative cuttings, &c, was sold for £1, 7s. ' A Treatise on the 
 Sabbath and the Lord's-Day,' by David Primerose (London, 1624), brought £2, 2s. 
 Among the other works were 'Prognostication' (Aberdene, Raban 1626), and 
 several old almanacks, in one vol., £2, 10s. ; a collection of remarkable prophecies, 
 £1, 14s.; 'Portraits of the Nineteenth Century,' with cuttings, &c, £1, 2s.; 
 ' Catch that Catch Can, or the Musical Companion (London, 1667), £2, 10s. ; a 
 collection of pamphlets, &c, on the ' Philosopher's Stone,' in one volume, £2, 4s. ; 
 Francis Palgrave's ' Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth, Anglo- 
 Saxon Period,' 2 vols. (London, 1832), £2, 12s. ; 'Poems — Songs for the Curling 
 Club at Canonmills, The Brigs of Edinburgh, Scottish Pastorals by James Hogg,' 
 &c, in 2 vols., £2, 15s. ; a collection of political, biographical, historical, and 
 other pamphlets, cases, &c. (1753-1864), in eleven volumes, £3, 10s. ; a collection 
 of historical and political pamphlets, in nine volumes, £2, 10s. ; ' Owain Miles,' 
 and other inedited fragments of ancient English poetry, edited by W. B. D. D. 
 Turnbull and David Laing, 32 copies printed for private distribution (Edin. 
 1827), £2, 8s. ; a presentation copy of George Outram's ' Legal Lyrics and 
 Metrical Illustrations of the Scotch Forms of Process,' 100 copies printed for 
 private circulation (1851), £1, lis. ; a Collection of Old Ballads, in 1 vol. (circa 
 1790), £1, 16s. 
 
 " The sum of the day's sales was £277, 9s. 6d."
 
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 Tenth Day's Sale, Monday, 10th May, 1880. — " Among the books sold 
 yesterday were several interesting volumes relating to Sir Walter Scott. One of 
 these, which consisted of a collection of original letters by Sir Walter, J. G. 
 Lockhart, Sir Adam Ferguson, and other relatives and friends of the novelist, 
 embracing the period between 1789-1838, with a portrait by Maclise, cuttings, 
 &c, was sold for ,£15, 4s. 6d. One of Sir Walter's letters, addressed to Mr. 
 Maidment from Walker Street, and without date — a common omission with 
 Scott — was in the following terms : — ' Dear Sir, — I am greatly obliged to you 
 for the copy of the letter, which is the most characteristic of the half-mad, half- 
 mischievous, entirely cunning wretch who wrote it that ever came across my 
 researches. Your collection will be most curious if you persevere. It is very 
 odd that two such rabid animals as Pinkerton and Ritson should have disturbed 
 the tranquillity of the very unpassionate study of antiquities. I think, against 
 I come to town, I can add something to your collection. Meantime, I am, with 
 regard, dear sir, your obliged humble servant, Walter Scott.' It is curious to 
 observe the almost entire absence of punctuation in the great author's MS. In 
 the above letter, from beginning to end, there is only a single point — a period at 
 ' researches.' There were sold for ,£5 three volumes entitled ' Scottiana.' They 
 contained numerous engravings from scenes in the Waverley novels, ' Scottish 
 Antiquities and Churchyards,' the ' Regalia of Scotland,' 1819 ; ' Sir Walter and 
 the Glasgow Radicals,' the Ballantyne Controversy, and a collection of reviews, 
 cuttings, &c. One of the cuttings, dated 1st October, 1818, ran as follows : — 
 ' On Thursday week, Walter Scott, Esq., arrived at the hospitable mansion of 
 J. B. S. Morrit, Esq., M.P., of Rokeby Park, Yorkshire, on his return from the 
 plains of Waterloo. He has minutely inspected every part of that hallowed 
 ground, preparatory to the publication of a poem on that subject, which we are 
 happy to learn is at present on the anvil. He has brought off several trophies 
 of the memorable 18th of June, with which the plains are plentifully strewed.' 
 An extract from the Gazette de France, November, 1826, stated that 'among the 
 multitude of individuals who filled the Tuileries on Saturday (Charles X.'s 
 birthday), Sir Walter Scott and his daughter were observed with the greatest 
 interest. The King, by a mark of distinction the more flattering because it was 
 exclusive, allowed the illustrious Scotchman to be placed on his passage in the 
 glass gallery, where only ladies are usually admitted. His Majesty paid with a 
 few words full of eloquence the labours of the historian of the misfortunes of the 
 Stuarts, the writer who dedicated some affecting lines to the exile of the House 
 of Bourbon. The King afterwards, with as much delicacy as kindness, conversed 
 in English with the handsome and timid Miss Anna Scott.' An old cutting, 
 which bore no date, ran as follows : — ' " Sir Walter Scott has had the honour of 
 being presented to the King of Naples." — Times, &c. &c. This, we take it, 
 must be a mistake. Considering the respective rank of the parties in Europe, 
 it should have been, " The King of Naples has had the honour of being presented 
 to Sir Walter Scott.'" The following was quoted from the Globe of 22d 
 October, 1831 : — 'Sir Walter Scott and several branches of his famUy will be 
 present at the christening of the son and heir to the Duke of Buccleuch, which 
 is appointed by the King to take place at Montague House, Privy-gardens, 
 to-morrow evening. On that occasion their Majesties will be the sponsors. Sir 
 Walter will take his departure for Portsmouth on Wednesday, and from thence, 
 in the society of an amiable and accomplished younger daughter, embark on 
 board a ship for Malta, in the hope that his health may be restored and his 
 valuable life prolonged by passing the winter in a genial climate. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lockhart will attend him to Portsmouth.' A collection of law-papers and 
 pleadings in which Sir Walter Scott took part (1799), with a number of cuttings, 
 was sold for £6, 5s. ; and ' Memorials of the Haliburtons,' to which was prefixed 
 a holograph letter from Sir Walter to Mr. Maidment, sending him a present of 
 the volume, and referring to other literary matters, brought £3. A considerable 
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 tracts, ballads, pamphlets, and similar literary relics. The most extensive of 
 these collections was one entitled ' Scottish Topography,' in 33 volumes, which 
 was sold for ,£35. Five volumes of miscellaneous ' Scottish Poetry ' brought 
 .£5, 15s. ; four volumes of tracts relating to the Eebellion of 1745 were knocked 
 down for £10 ; for a volume of 'Eemarkable Histories,' including those of 'John 
 Shepherd ' and the ' Female Dunciad,' £2, 2s. was given ; five volumes of 
 ' Scotish Criminal Cases ' brought £4 ; £2, 10s. was given for a volume of satires, 
 including 'The Downefall of Temporising Poets, Unlicenst Printers, Upstart 
 Booksellers,' &c. ; ' Reader, Here You'll Plainly see Judgement Perverted by 
 these Three, a Priest, a Judge, a Patentee,' by Heywood, 1641, &c. ; a volume 
 of 'Scotish Ballads and Songs' (Edin. circa 1700-12) was knocked down for 
 £3, 12s. ; a volume of Scottish tracts, including ' The Protestantism of the 
 General Assemblie' (Glasgow, 1638), and the 'Discovery of the True Mother of 
 the Prince of Wales,' 1696, brought £4, 5s. ; and various other collections of a 
 similar nature were sold for smaller prices. Among the other works were ' The 
 Discoverie of Witchcraft, wherein the Lewde Dealing of Witches and Witch- 
 mongers is notablie Detected, by Eeginald Scot' (London, 1584), £10; George 
 Scot's 'Model of the Government of the Province of East-New- Jersey ' (Edin. 
 1605), £7 ; 18 vols, of the ' Eetrospective Be view,' £8, 15s. ; George Eobertson's 
 ' Genealogical Account of the Principal Families in Ayrshire,' 3 vols. (Irvine, 
 1823), £5, 7s. 6d. ; the Earl of Eochester's Works, 2 vols, in one (London, 1731), 
 £5, 5s. ; ' The Eevolt of Islam,' by Percy B. Shelley (London, 1818), £2, 13s. ; 
 'The Most Delectable History of Eeynard the Fox' (London, 1676), £6; 
 ' Poems, written in English, by Charles, Duke of Orleans, during his captivity 
 in England after the battle of Agincourt,' one of the Eoxburghe Club publica- 
 tions (London, 1827), £2, 4s. ; ' Samson's Eiddle ; or a bunch of bitter worm- 
 wood, bringing forth a bundle of sweet smelling Myrrh,' &c. (printed in 1668), 
 £2, 4s. ; ' History of the Families of Scot in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk,' 
 by Captain Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1776), £2, 4s. ; 'De Procreatione et 
 Hominis Phisionomia,' by Michaelis Scoti, £3, 12s. 
 
 " The proceeds of the day's sales amounted to £361, 3s." 
 
 Eleventh Day's Sale, Tuesday, Uth May, 1880.— " No less than £502, 6s. 
 was realised by the sale of yesterday's instalment of this remarkable collection, 
 so that the proceeds so far have now reached about £3826. The most important 
 of the 365 lots sold yesterday, and that which bulked largest in the list of prices 
 as well as on the shelves, consisted of 100 folio volumes of ' Scottish Topo- 
 graphical Collections.' In the words of the catalogue, ' it is impossible to give 
 even an outline of the contents' of these volumes. Pamphlets, tracts, law 
 papers, magazine and newspaper articles, bills, letters, MS., and a great variety 
 of other odds and ends had been carefully collected and inserted into the volumes 
 lettered with the names of the counties to which they related. The matter thus 
 brought together was of the most heterogeneous description. The collection had 
 extended over a period of half-a-century, and the different items had been 
 inserted from time to time with but little regard to order or classification. Of 
 the hundred volumes, eight related to ' Mid-Lothian City,' five to ' Mid-Lothian 
 County,' seven to Perth, six to Aberdeen, six to Fife, six to Lanark and City of 
 Glasgow, five to Ayr, and others, some three, some four, and some only one, to 
 Argyle, Berwick, Dumfries, Haddington, Stirling, and other counties. The 
 collection was offered in one lot, and after a brisk competition was knocked 
 down to Mr. Paterson, Princes Street, Edinburgh, for £210. The highest price 
 obtained for any single volume was brought by Tasso's ' Godfrey of Bulloigne, 
 or the Recoverie of Hierusalem,' ' translated into English by E(ichard) C(arew), 
 Esq., and now the first part containing five cantos, imprinted in both languages' 
 (imprinted by John Windet for Christopher Hunt, Exceter, 1594). For this rare
 
 44 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF THE MAID ME NT COLLECTION. 
 
 book ,£10, 15s. was given. £9, 15s. was obtained for a quarto volume containing 
 a numerous collection of letters by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, chiefly to Mr. 
 Maidment, and copies of letters from Mr. Maidment to Mr. Sharpe, with news- 
 paper cuttings relating to Mr. Sharpe, the whole constituting a curious and 
 interesting relic. There was sold for £7, 7s. 6d. an octavo volume of ' Songs 
 of the Holy Land,' by ' Stirling of Keir' (the late Sir William Stirling Maxwell). 
 This book, of which only forty copies were printed in 1846, had been presented 
 to Mr. Maidment by the author. An extraordinary collection of portraits entitled 
 ' A Gallery of Scottish Worthies,' including a large number of Kay's etchings, 
 public characters of Perth by Kobertson, and Glasgow characters, in one folio 
 volume, was sold for £6, 15s. For a volume containing a collection of old Scotch 
 maps by Adair, Cowley, Bruce, Edgar, Bryce, Willdey, &c, ,£6, 10s. was given. 
 ' Smollettiana ' was the title of an octavo volume containing a number of tracts, 
 cuttings, &c, relating to Dr. Smollett the novelist. These included the ' Vindi- 
 cation of the Family of Small- Wits,' 1751 ; ' Letter to Lady V ss V , 
 
 occasioned by the publication of her memoirs in the " Adventures of Peregrine 
 Pickle," ' 1751 ; ' Apology for the Conduct of a Lady of Quality, lately traduced 
 under the name of Lady Frail,' 1751, &c. The volume, which also embraced 
 portraits and engravings, was sold for £3, 2s. Several interesting collections of 
 old songs were disposed of. ' Bacchus and Venus, Witty and Diverting Songs 
 and Catches,' brought £4, 2s. 6d. ; for a collection of ' Loyal Songs, Poems,' &c. 
 (Jacobite), privately printed in 1750, the price obtained was £4 ; and 'A Col- 
 lection of Loyal Songs' written against the Rump Parliament between the years 
 1639 and 1661, 2 vols. (1751), was sold for £2, 18s. Two octavo volumes of 
 newspaper cuttings, entitled ' Histories of Tetes-a-Tetes,' with numerous por- 
 traits, notes, and letters inserted (1769-75), were knocked down for £6, 15s. 
 There was sold for £3, 4s. ' The Spy, a Periodical Paper' (Edinburgh, 1810-11), 
 regarding which there was the following note by Mr. Maidment : — ' I have under- 
 stood that James Hogg was the principal, or one of the principal writers of " The 
 Spy," which was discontinued by reason of some defamatory article by that not 
 very truthful personage. Copies are very scarce ; I doubt if there is one in any 
 of the public libraries on either side of the Tweed.' Several family histories 
 were sold Jot good prices. The ' Memoirs of the House of Stanley ' (Man- 
 chester, 1783), with cuttings from magazines, poems, &c, inserted, brought 
 £5, 5s. ; the 'History of the Stewarts,' by Duncan Stewart (Edinburgh, 1739), 
 was knocked down for £3, 18s. ; and the ' Genealogical History of the Stuarts,' 
 with a genealogical table in a separate case, 1798 ; 'Supplement to the History 
 of the Stewarts, with corrections and additions, 1799,' 3 vols., was sold for £4. 
 Eight volumes of ' Scottish Biographical Collections,' consisting of pamphlets, 
 cuttings, MS. letters and notes, brought £4, 15s. Among the other works were 
 a ' Compleat History of the Lives and Bobberies of the most Notorious High- 
 waymen, &c.,' 3 vols. (1719-20), £4, 10s. ; a volume containing a collection of 
 tracts, cuttings, &c, relating to various kinds of sports, including the 'History 
 and Rules of the Thistle Golf Club ' (Edinburgh, 1824) ; ' The Game of Curling, 
 by a member of the Duddingston Curling Society, privately printed, 1811 
 
 honour of tobacco, by R. Thorius (London, 1651), £2, 6s. ; the ' Trial of James 
 Stewart in Aucharan, in Duror of Appin, for the murder of Colin Campbell of 
 Glenure,' with supplement (Edinburgh, 1753), £2, 6s. ; ' Trial of Mungo 
 Campbell for the murder of the Earl of Eglintoun,' with relative pamphlets, 
 cuttings, &c, portrait (London, 1790), £1, 7s. ; 'Lord Elgin versus Ferguson' 
 (London, 1808), £1, 16s.; 'Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old 
 Bailey' (London, 1742), 4 volumes, £2, 4s. ; J. T. Smith's 'Antiquities of West- 
 minster,' &c. (1807), £2, 8s."
 
 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF THE MA IDMENT COLLECTION. 45 
 
 Twelfth Day's Sale, Wednesday, 12th May, 1880. — "Yesterday's sale com- 
 pleted the dispersal of the general stock of this library, with the exception of a 
 miscellaneous lot to be disposed of on Monday, and the sale of the works relating 
 to the drama and. dramatic literature will be begun to-day, and continue over 
 to-morrow. Several valuable folio volumes were sold yesterday. That which 
 brought the highest price was John Slezer's ' Theatrum Scotiaj, containing the 
 Prospects of their Majesties' Castles and Palaces,' with a life by John Jamieson, 
 D.D., additional plates by Paul Sandby, and a bond with the signature of J. 
 Slezer, as a witness (Edinburgh, 1814). For this work, the illustrations of which 
 were extremely interesting, £13, 15s. was obtained. Immediately preceding it 
 in the catalogue was a volume containing ' A Collection of Several Treatises (6) 
 in folio, concerning Scotland, as it was of Old, and also in Later Times,' by Sir 
 Robert Sibbald (Edinburgh, 1739) ; £13 was the price given for this book, in 
 which some writing of the author had been inserted, and which contained several 
 curious maps and plates. There was sold for ,£11, 5s. another folio volume, 
 entitled ' Eecreations with the Muses,' by William, Earle of Sterline (London, 
 1637), which bore the inscription, ' To Philip Murray, his dear friend, from A. 
 Sterline.' P. Tempest's ' Cryes of the City of London,' drawn after the life, in 
 seventy-four copper plates by C. Larson (London, 1733), brought £8, 5s. Two 
 works relating to Shakspeare were sold. The first consisted of ' Miscellaneous 
 Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of Willm. Shakspeare, 
 including the Tragedy of King Lear and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the 
 original MSS., in the possession of Thomas Ireland' (London, 1796), one volume, 
 folio, with plates and fac-similes. Among the fac-similes was one of a letter 
 from Elizabeth addressed to ' Master William Shakspeare, at the Globe, bye 
 Thames,' and of which the following is a copy : — ' Wee didde receive youre 
 pretty e verses goode Masterre William through the hands off oure Lord Cham- 
 berlayne, ande wee doe Complemente thee onne theyre greate excellence. Wee 
 shalle departe fromme Londonne toe Hamptowne forre the holydays, where wee 
 shall expecte thee withe thye beste actorres thatte thou mayste playe before 
 ourselfe toe amuse usse ; bee notte slowe, butte comme toe usse bye Tuesdaye 
 nexte, asse the lorde Leicesterre wille bee withe usse. — Elizabeth E.' In refer- 
 ence to this communication there was a fac-simile of the following note by 
 Shakspeare : — ' Thys Letterre I dydde receyve fromme mye moste gracyouse 
 Ladye Elyzabethe, ande I doe requeste itte maye bee kepte withe alle care 
 possyble.— Wm. Shakspeare.' The work was knocked down for £3, 12s. 
 ' Shakspeariana ' was the title of the other work, which consisted of two volumes 
 containing a collection of cuttings, pamphlets, woodcuts, &c, relating to the 
 great dramatist and his works. In reference to the spelling of Shakspeare's 
 name, it is interesting to note that the autographs in the last-mentioned volume 
 have no e at the end of the first syllable, and in most of the cuttings in ' Shaks- 
 peariana ' the same rule appears to have been observed, while one of them, relat- 
 ing to the point in question, states that ' Mathews, the actor, at a recent visit to 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, by laboriously investigating the parish register, during the 
 time of the poet, had ascertained that in every instance Shakspeare's name is 
 there written " Shakspeare," omitting the e in the first syllable.' One of the 
 many curious extracts relating to Shakspearian literature was a short paragraph 
 announcing that in a French translation of Shakspeare the line — ' Frailty ! thy 
 name is woman ' had been rendered, ' Mademoiselle Frailty is the name of the 
 lady.' The work was sold for £2, 6s. Three octavo volumes by T. F. Dibdin, 
 entitled 'Bibliographical Decameron, or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illumi- 
 nated Manuscripts and Subjects connected with Early Engraving, Typography, 
 and Bibliography,' with plates, facsimiles, &c. (London, 1817), brought £15. 
 £1 was given for ' The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, found in the kennel 
 of Worcester streets the day after the fight' (London, 1652), 1 vol. octavo. For 
 £7, 5s. there was sold 'A System of Heraldrv, Speculative and Practical, with 
 the True Art of Blazon,' by Alex. Nisbet (Edin. 1722), 2 vols. ' Turnbulliana'
 
 46 NOTICES OF THE SA LE OF THE MA IDMENT COLLECTION. 
 
 was the title of a collection of privately printed papers, articles from periodicals, 
 letters, &c, of W. B. D. D. Turnbull, which was sold for £3, 10s. There was 
 knocked down for 15s. a collection of pamphlets, magazine articles, cuttings, &c, 
 relating to the Universities of Scotland. Among these were ' Testimonials in 
 Favour of John Stuart Blackie, Esq., Advocate, Professor of Humanity in 
 Marischal College, Aberdeen,' on the occasion of his applying for the vacant 
 Greek Professorship in Edinburgh. In submitting these to the Lord Provost, 
 Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh, Professor Blackie gives the fol- 
 lowing account of his education : — ' I commenced my studies with the ordinary 
 curriculum of a Scottish University, having spent three sessions in the Marischal 
 College of Aberdeen, and two in the Edinburgh University. I was then sent to 
 travel and study on the Continent, where I remained for two years and a-half. 
 I studied one session at Goettingen, where I acquired a knowledge of the German 
 language ; and another at Berlin ; whence I proceeded to Rorne. There I 
 acquired a knowledge of the Italian language ; and, under the superintendence 
 of the Chevalier Bunsen and Professor Gerhard of Berlin, occupied myself during 
 fifteen months with the study of the fine arts, and especially of the remains of 
 ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in the Vatican and the Capitol. Returning 
 home, I was admitted a member of the Scottish bar ; but my tastes having a 
 decided leaning to literary rather than legal pursuits, I accepted the appointment 
 to the Chair of Humanity in Marischal College, Aberdeen, where I have now 
 had ten yetfrs' experience as a public teacher, with what success I leave others 
 to say.' Among the other works were ' The Baronage of Scotland,' by Sir Robert 
 Douglas, vol. 1 (all published), Edinburgh, 1798, £4, 12s. 6d. ; 'The Displaying 
 of Supposed Witchcraft,' by John "Webster (London, 1677), with numerous 
 memoranda by a former owner, £4, 4s. ; ' Sir Francis Vere's Commentaries, 
 being diverse pieces, wherein he had command, written in way of commentary, 
 published by Dillingham' (Camb. 1657), £2, 12s.; a collection of forty -two 
 plates, chiefly etchings, by C. K. Sharpe, with some letterpress, and portraits 
 and cuttings inserted, £4, 6s. ; Sir Robert Sibbald's ' Account of the Scottish 
 Atlas' (Edinburgh, 1683), £2, 10s. ; 'Smithiana,' a collection of curious chap- 
 books, reprints, ballads, songs, squibs, and pamphlets, edited and published by 
 W. Smith, 3 Bristo Place, £2 ; a collection of ' Thirty Scots Songs ' (Edinburgh, 
 Bremner, circa 1749), £3 ; a collection of cuttings from newspapers and periodi- 
 cals on a great variety of subjects, in 21 vols., lettered ' Miscellaneous Scraps' 
 (1694-1840), £3, 15s. ; 'A Collection of Modern Relations concerning Witches 
 and Witchcraft,' by Lord Hales, 1693, and other cognate publications, in one 
 vol., £3 ; a collection of MS. letters, cuttings, &c, ' relative to Mrs. Wells, 
 otherwise Sumbell, an actress of celebrity towards the end of last century,' which 
 was formerly in the possession of C. K. Sharpe, £2, 10s. ; ' Memorial of the 
 Conversion of Jean Livingstone, Lady Waristoun,' edited by C. K. Sharpe, 
 privately printed (Edinburgh, 1827), £3, 2s. ; 'The Orygynale Cronykil of Scot- 
 land, by Androw of Wyntoun,' with notes and glossary by David Macpherson 
 (London, 1795), £2 ; 'juvenilia,' a collection of those poems which were hereto- 
 fore imprinted and written by George Wither,' including 'Abuses Stript and 
 Whipt,' ' The Scourge,' &c. (Robert Allott, 1633), £4, 16s. ; < Witts' Recreation ' 
 (London, 1817), £2, 14s. ; 'A Pithie Exortation to Her Majestie for establishing 
 Her successor to the Crown' (1598), £2, 2s. ; 'Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orleans, 
 Poeme en Vingt Chants,' 2 vols, (a Paris, An. VII. 1799), £5 ; ' Vitrified Forts 
 — account of some remarkable ancient ruins in the Highlands,' by John Williams, 
 1777 ; Mackenzie's ' Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Vitrified Forts,' 1824, in 1 
 vol., £3 ; Voltaire's ' La Henriade,' 2 vols. (Paris, 1767); 'Fugitive Pieces in 
 Verse and Prose,' by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1758), £2, 18s. 
 " The day's sales amounted to ,£316, Is. 6d."
 
 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF TEE MAID ME NT COLLECTION. 4 7 
 
 Thirteenth Day's Sale, Thursday, 13th May, 1880. — " Yesterday was the 
 first of two days' sale of works relating to the drama and dramatic literature. 
 These consisted to a considerable extent, as indeed did a large proportion of the 
 general contents of this library, of collections of pamphlets, papers, letters, 
 cuttings, &c, arranged more or less systematically under different heads. Many 
 of the collections were of comparatively little interest to any but bibliomaniacs 
 and those specially interested in the drama and its history ; yet the rarity of 
 some of the works and the unique character of the collections created a ready 
 market for them. One of the most characteristic examples of Mr. Maidment's 
 enthusiasm as a collector of anything and everything that was in the slightest 
 degree curious or interesting in literature was a volume entitled ' Fragmenta 
 Dramatica,' consisting of cuttings from newspapers and magazines, playbills, 
 woodcuts, &c, and which bore the following note, dated 1857 : — 'Gentle reader, 
 — These fragments have not been obtained by the spoliation of books on my 
 part, but have been rescued from the snuff-shop, the grocer, and provision dealer. 
 A little patience, and not a little trouble, have put them in the present condition 
 in which it is hoped they will remain — J. M.' For this collection of otherwise 
 valueless scraps lis. was obtained. The highest price given for any single 
 volume was brought by one containing the ' Monarchiche Tragedies,' ' Crcesus, 
 Darius,' ' The Alexandrsen and Julius Caesar, with a Paraenesis to the Prince,' 
 and ' Aurora, containing the first fancies of the author's youth, - " by Win. Alexander 
 —Earl of Sterling— (London, 1604-7)— slightly imperfect. S. T. Coleridge's 
 dramatic works, collected in one octavo volume (London, 1794-1817), brought 
 £2, 12s., and the same price was given for Mrs. Behn's Plays (London, 1724), in 
 four volumes. There was sold for £1, 12s. an extraordinary collection of scraps, 
 &c, relating to old Edinburgh amusements, the dates extending from 1796 to 
 1828. Among these were numerous play -bills, circulars, and newspaper extracts 
 containing accounts of the recreations and exhibitions with which, in the begin- 
 ning of the present century, the Edinburgh public was provided. Besides matter 
 relating to theatres, circuses, and similar places of amusement, there were notices 
 of pugilistic encounters, balloon ascents, the exhibition of Bonaparte's carriage, 
 and of a great variety of giants, pigmies, and other phenomena. £2, 6s. was 
 given for Robert Greene's Dramatic Works and Poems (1831), 2 vols. ; Theodore 
 Hook's Dramatic Pieces, collected in 1 vol., with portrait and cuttings inserted 
 (1805-11), brought £1, 12s. ; and the Dramatic Works of George Colman, the 
 younger, collected in 3 vols., also with portraits and cuttings (1788-1820), were 
 sold for £2, 8s. Among the other works were an ' Account of the English Stage, 
 from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830,' by the Rev. J. Geneste (Bath, 1832), 10 
 vols., £2, 12s. ; Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1843), 11 vols., £7, 15s. ; 
 George Anne Bellamy's 'Apology for her Life' (1785), 6 vols., £1, 10s. ; Mrs. 
 Centlivre's Dramatic Works (1761), 3 vols., £1, lis. ; W. R. Chetwood's ' Stock 
 Jobbers,' ' South Sea, or the Biter Bit,' ' The Lover's Opera,' and the ' Generous 
 Freemason,' a complete set, in 1 vol. (1720-31), £1, 12s.; Dodsley's Select Col- 
 lection of Old Plays, by Reid and Gilchrist, with J. Payne Collier's Supplement 
 (1825-33), 13 vols., £3, 12s.; 'Dramatic Collections,' including papers by W. H. 
 Logan, Sir Theodore Martin, and others, in 1 vol. (1834-37), £1, 10s. ; a collec- 
 tion of over 400 Tragedies, Comedies, &c, with cuttings relative to the authors, 
 in 47 volumes (1749-1865), £5, 10s. ; ' Dramatists of the Reformation,' edited by 
 J. Maidment and W. H. Logan (Edinburgh, 1872-79), in 14 volumes, of which 
 only 150 copies were printed, £'3, 12s. ; David Garrick's Dramatic Works, col- 
 lected in three volumes (1752-79), .£1, 16s.; 'Craftie Cromwell ; or Oliver order- 
 ing our new State, a Tragi-comedie, written by Mercurius Melancholicus, with 
 the second part called Newmarket Fayre ; or Mrs. Parliament's New Figaryes, 
 written by the Man in the Moon' (1648-49), in 1 volume, £1, 13s.; Thomas 
 Dekker's ' Satiro Mastix' (£1602, 15s.), 1 volume, £1, 8s. ; 'Match me in Lon- 
 don,' a tragi-comedy, by the same author (1631), £1, 6s. ; 'The Nuptialls of 
 Pelevs and Thetis, consisting of a Mask and a Comedy ; or the Great Royall Ball '
 
 48 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF THE MAIDMENT COLLECTION. 
 
 (1654), £1, 9s. ; ' Dramatic and Musical Biography,' consisting of cuttings, &c, 
 two volumes, £1, 15s. ; and Plays and Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips, the 
 Earl of Orerry, and Sir Robert Howard (1665-68), in one volume, £1, 14s." 
 
 Fourteenth Day's Sale, Friday, 14ih May, 1880. — "The second instalmeut 
 of the dramatic literature, which was sold yesterday, practically brought to a 
 close the sale of this interesting, and, in many respects, unique collection. A 
 miscellaneous lot of books remain to be disposed of on Monday, but they do not 
 call for special notice. Before the sale of the dramatic works was resumed 
 yesterday, one or two volumes which had been left over from preceding days 
 were put up. One of these was the Rev. J. Jamieson's ' Historical Account of 
 the Culdees, and of their Settlement in Scotland, England, and Ireland ' (Edin. 
 1811), one quarto volume, which brought £3. Among the dramatic works were 
 several collections of a biographical description, made up of pamphlets, critiques, 
 caricatures, newspaper cuttings, &c, and for these good prices were obtained. 
 A volume, entitled ' Keaniana,' brought £-i ; and ' Kembeliana,' was sold for 
 £3, 15s., both being bought by Messrs. Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow. For 
 'Mackliniaua' £1, 5s. was given. Ben Jonson's works, with notes and memoir, 
 by W. Gifford, in 9 vols. (Lond. 1816), were knocked down for £6, 5s. ; and for 
 Archibald Maclaren's dramatic works, collected in 4 vols. (Lond., Perth, Paisley, 
 &c., 1784-1820), £5, 5s. was obtained. For Chris. Marlowe's works, with 
 ' Notes and Life,' by the Rev. Alex. Dyce, 3 vols. (1850), £3, 2s. was given. 
 ' Madonna Pia, a tragedy,' by Sir Theodore Martin, printed for private circu- 
 lation, with a letter from the author inserted (Lond. 1855), brought £1, 7s. 
 Thomas Middleton's dramatic works, 'now first collected,' with notes by the 
 Rev. Alexander Dyce, 5 vols. (London, 1840), were sold for £5, 5s. For Philip 
 Massinger's Plays in 3 vols. (1813), £2, 8s. was given. There was sold for £2, 6s. 
 William Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, in 9 vols., 
 uncut (London, 1825-27.) George Peele's Dramatic Works, collected and edited 
 by the Rev. A. Dyce, in 3 vols. (1829), brought £2, 18s. ; and Shadwell's 
 Dramatic Works, in 4 vols. (1720), £2, 8s. There were several works relating 
 to Shakspeare. Johnson & Steevens' edition of his works, in 15 vols. (1793), 
 was knocked down for £2, 4s. Four volumes, entitled ' Shakspeare Forgeries,' 
 brought £1, 2s. ; and a volume of ' Shakspeariana ' was sold for i5s. J. Ritson's 
 ' Remarks on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakespeare and the 
 Quip Modest, a few words by way of Supplement,' in 1 vol. (1788), was sold for 
 £2, 4s. Shirley's Dramatic Works and Poems, ' now first collected,' with notes 
 by W. Gifford, and additional notes and some account of Shirley and his writings 
 by the Rev. A. Dyce, in 6 vols. (1833), brought £4, 6s. £2, 2s. was given for 
 Sir John Suckling's 'Fragmenta Aurea, a Collection of all the Incomparable 
 Pieces, printed from his owne copies' (1648). The 'Collection des Theatre 
 Francais,' 45 vols, in 23 (Senlis, 1829), was sold for £1, 3s. £5, 2s. 6d. was the 
 price obtained for John Webster's works, with life and notes by the Rev. A. 
 Dyce, 4 vols. (1830) ; and for Webster's Acting National Drama, 18 vols., in 
 numbers, £\, 8s. was given. For £8, 2s. 6d. there was sold Thomas Killigrew's 
 ' Comedies and Tragedies, with a rare portrait of the author,' by W. Faithorne, 
 1 vol. folio (Lond. 1664). Tasso's ' Aminta, Englisht, with Ariadne's Complaint' 
 (Lond. 1628), brought £2, 3s. A quarto vol., entitled 'Th' Overthrow of Stage- 
 Playes, by the way of Controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes' (1599) 
 was sold for £2, 2s. For John Wilson's Dramatic Works, in two vols., with 
 cuttings inserted (London, 1664-91), £1, 12s. was given. Among the other lots 
 were 'A Pleasant Comedie, entitled Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery' 
 (London, 1651), £1, 7s. ; a collection of Old Plays, in 10 vols. (1669-1726), 
 £3, 2s. ; Miscellanea Scoto-Dramatica (1727-1842), 16s. ; Tate Wilkinson's ' The 
 Wandering Patentee ; or a History of the Yorkshire Theatres from 1700 to the 
 present time,' 4 vols. (York, 1795), £1, 8s. ; 'The Queen's Opera, and the Fate
 
 NOTICES OF THE SALE OF THE MAIDMENT COLLECTION. 49 
 
 of Villany,' in 1 vol., by Thos. Walker (the original Macheath), (Lond. 1728-30), 
 17s.; 'The Theatrical Inquisitor,' 15 vols., with portraits (1812-19), £3, 10s. 
 A quantity of old music was also sold. Campbell's Albyn's Anthology, two vols. 
 in one (1816-18), brought £2, 14s. ; Moore's Popular National Airs, £3, 3s. ; 
 Thomson's Collection of Original Scotish Airs, the poetry chiefly by Burns, 6 
 vols., £3, 5s. ; Thomson's Original Welsh Airs, 2 vols., £1, 15s. ; and Dow's 
 Ancient Scots Music, £2, 10s. The amount realised for the dramatic works was 
 £351, lis. 6d., bringing up the proceeds of the sale to £4499, Is. 6d." 
 
 Note. — The Sale of the Books, China, Silverplate, and Engravings, realised the 
 sum of £5152, 10s. 7d.
 
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 MONTEITH (ROBERT, of Egliska and Gairsa), Description of the 
 Islands of Orkney and Zetland, 1633. Reprinted from the Edition of 
 1711, published under the superintendence of Sir Robert Sibbald. 
 8vo, with two beautiful facsimiles of the exceedingly rare maps, boards. 
 8s. 6d. 1845 
 
 S&r " Only One Hundred and Fifty-five Copies printed." 
 
 BANNATYNIANA : Catalogue of the Privately Printed Publications 
 of the Bannatyne Club from M.DCCC.XXlll. to m.dccc.xlviii. 8vo. Is. 
 
 1848 
 
 ORIGINAL PORTRAITS of the Marquis of Montrose and some of 
 his Friends, with Descriptive Letterpress. 4to. 1856 
 
 63" " Only Forty Copies printed for presents." 
 
 MAIDMENT (JAMES, Advocate, Edinburgh), Bibliographical List of 
 the various Publications by, from the year 1817 to 1859, with 
 illustrative Notes. Roy. 8vo. 1859 
 
 £S" " One Hundred Copies printed for presents." 
 
 MERCHANT COMPANY, EDINBURGH :— Four Letters to the 
 Members of the, on its Constitution, Rules, Standing Orders, and 
 Funds, with especial Reference to the Propriety and Expediency of 
 the Institution of an "Aged Members' Annuity Fund." 8vo. Is. 
 
 1862
 
 52 LISTOFBOOKS EDITED BY THOMAS GEORGE STE VENSON. 
 
 CATALOGUE of the Library of the Commissioners of Northern 
 Lighthouses, Edinburgh. 8vo. 1867 
 
 S3" ' ' Printed for the use of the Commissioners." 
 
 AULD BALLAD POETRY: Four Books of choice old Scotish 
 Ballads, viz. — I. A Ballad Book, 1823. — II. A North Countrie 
 Garland, 1824.— III. The Ballad Book, 1827.— IV. A New Book of 
 Old Ballads, 1844. Edited originally by Charles Kirkpatrick 
 Sharpe, James Maidment, and George Ritchie Kinloch. Now 
 first collected with an Introductory Notice. Sin. 8vo, with woodcut 
 portraits of the celebrated Antiquary, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 
 and Charles Leslie, alias, " Mussel-Mou'd Charlie, 1 ' the eccentric 
 Ballad Singer in Aberdeen, &c. Boards. 42s. 1868 
 
 S2T "The Series of Ballad-Books contained in this collection were originally issued 
 at private expense, chiefly for presentation among the particular friends of their 
 respective editors. The impression printed was exceedingly limited in number, and, 
 consequently, soon became very scarce. Now they are, in the language of Bibliopoles, 
 ' excessively rare. ' Their value, both in a literary and financial point of view, was 
 known to be great ; and where by chance any of them was exposed for sale on the 
 dispersion of some eminent collector's Library, the competitors were many, and the 
 prices realised extravagant in almost every case." One of them — " A Ballad Book " 
 — was very recently priced in a London Bookseller's Catalogue at the sum of Five 
 Pounds and Fifteen Shillings. 
 
 SMITH'S (ROBERT, Schoolmaster at Glenshee, Perthshire, and at 
 Glammis, Coupar- Angus, Forfarshire) Poems of Controversy betwixt 
 Episcopacy and Presbytery : Being the Substance of what past 'twixt 
 him and several other Poets ; as also several Poems and Merry Songs 
 on other Subjects; with some Funeral Elegies on several Noblemen 
 and Gentlemen, never before published, 1714, with The Assembly 
 Shorter Catechism in Metre ; for the use of the Young Ones, 1729, 
 with Introductory Notices. 2 vols. 12mo. Boards. 21s. 1869-72 
 
 S3" " Seventy Copies printed for Subscribers." 
 
 * * " This very odd Miscellany — a mixture of Satires, Elegies, Mirth, and Sadness, 
 penned on several subjects and occasions — has long been a work of extreme rarity." 
 
 SINCLAR'S (GEORGE, Professor of Philosophy, <fcc, Glasgow) Satans 
 Invisible World Discovered ; or, A Choice Collection of Modern 
 Relations, proving evidently that there are Devils, Spirits, Witches, and 
 Apparitions, from Authentick Records, Attestations of Famous 
 Witnesses, and Undoubted Verity. To which is added that Marvellous 
 History of Major Weir and his Sister. Reprinted from the Original 
 Edition issued in 1685. With a Supplement containing Additional 
 Notices of Major Weir, the Witches of Galloway, Renfrew, Pitten- 
 weem, Kinross, and West Calder. Edited with a Bibliographical
 
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 Notice, and an Account of William Mitchel, "the Tincklariau 
 Doctor" Edinburgh. Sm. 8vo, with a fine frontisjnece, boards, 21s. — 
 large paper, 8vo, boards, 31s. 6d. 1871 
 
 £2T "This Reprint, of which the Impression is extremely limited, is from the First 
 Edition of one of the most curious Bootes ever written by a learned Professor, and one 
 of the most popular circulated for many years in Scotland, and which continued to be 
 reprinted so late as the year 1814. The First Edition is of Extreme rarity. It is here 
 carefully produced in facsimile, under the Editorship of the worthy Publisher, who 
 has made it for all literary purposes vastly superior to the original by an interesting 
 Biographical and Bibliographical Introduction, by printing with it the Additional 
 Relations which appeared in the Edition issued in 1764, and some very curious Sup- 
 plement Notes." 
 
 PASQUINADES, <fcc. — The Sempill Ballates : A Series of Histori- 
 cal, Political, and Satirical Scotish Poems, ascribed to Robert Sempill, 
 m.d.lxvii-m.d.lxxxiii., pertaining to "Mary, Queen of Scots, Henry- 
 Lord Darnley, the ' Good ' Regent Murray, Kirkcaldy of Grange, and 
 Patrick Adarasone, the Archbishop of St. Andrews, &c. Now first 
 collected, with a Preface and Appendix, consisting of Poems by Sir 
 James Semple, of Beltrees, 1598-1610 (noiv first printed), and Allan 
 Ramsay, 1724. Sm. 8vo, boards, 21s. — large paper, 8vo, boards, 
 £2, 2s. 1872 
 
 42T " The Sempill Ballates, now for the first time given to the world in a collected 
 form, are a series of political poems originally published as broadsides or small tracts 
 between the years 1567 and 1583. They have reference chiefly to the events that 
 occurred in Scotland during the stormy times that succeeded the death of Darnley, 
 and if they are not calculated to throw much new light on Scottish History, they are 
 interesting as bringing vividly before the reader the sentiments and opinions of the 
 dominant party during that eventful period. It is rather a singular collection, of 
 which only three hundred copies were printed." 
 
 %* "These curious Reprints of rare 'Ballates' of the sixteenth century have his- 
 torical as well as poetical interest. Many of the ' Ballates ' are so rare as to be found 
 only in ' unique ' copies, and thus the volume is a remarkable collection of what cannot 
 be procured elsewhere. The 'Ballates' give very curious pictures of the state of 
 society in Scotland during the troublous times of the last half of the sixteenth 
 century, concerning the Regent Murray, the fiery Knox, the unhappy Darnley, and 
 the ever famous Mary Queen of Scots. The volume is an edition de luxe, daintily 
 printed in capital style ; and being intended only for limited circulation, is necessarily 
 costly, and will soon be locked up in the Libraries of the curious, and be reported 
 ' rare.' As an example of the rarer literature of Scottish History, the volume is an 
 acceptable addition to all choice libraries, and is, certainly, as to form and style, a very 
 charming work of the Scottish press." 
 
 83T Dr. David Laing remarked "that it was very desirable to have these 'Ballates' 
 collected and reprinted in an accessible form, and the great care and accuracy displayed, 
 renders your volume of more than ordinary interest and importance in the class of 
 books to which it belongs." 
 
 EDINBURGH MERCHANT COMPANY'S SCHOOLS: Their 
 Origin and Purposes ; with an Appendix of Illustrative Documents. 
 8vo. Is. 1874 
 
 SCOTISH LITERARY CLUB :— The Works of Adam Petrie, " the 
 Scotish Chesterfield," viz. : — I. Rules of Good Deportment, or of 
 Good Breeding. For the Use of Youth, 1720.— II. Rules of Good 
 
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 54 LIST OF BOOKS EDITED B Y THOMA S GEORGE STE VENSON. 
 
 Deportment for Church Officers ; or, Friendly Advices to them, 1730. 
 Now first collected. Edited, with Prefatory Remarks and Notices 
 of Adam Petrie and Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan, with a List 
 of his Publications. Sm. 4to. With a highly Characteristic Frontis- 
 piece, from a Drawing by the celebrated Charles Kirkpatrick 
 Sharpe. Half-bound morocco, gilt top. 1877 
 
 SS" "Only Sixty Copies printed foe the Members." — Yearly Subscription, 
 
 Two Guineas. 
 
 PREFACE TO THE AUCHINLECK CHRONICLE, 1436-1460-61. 
 
 (Edited and Printed by Thomas Thomson in 1819), with the rare 
 
 facsimile of the original from the "Asloan Manuscript." 4to. 6s. 6d. 
 
 1877 
 
 NOTICES OF DAVID LA1NG, LL.D., with a Chronological List of 
 the various Publications which were issued under his Editorial 
 superintendence, from the year 1815 to 1878 Inclusive, and his 
 Lectures on Scottish Art and Artists, also the Contemporary Accounts 
 of his Death and Funeral, with Notices by the Literati on his Life and 
 Character, &c. 4to. Two Portraits, half-bound morocco, with gilt top. 
 42s. 1878 
 
 m 1 "One Hdndred Copies feinted for Private Circulation." 
 
 CLIFFORD'S (THOMAS, of Busta) Historical Description of the 
 Shetland Islands in the year 1733, with an Appendix of Illustrative 
 Documents. Reprinted from the Edition of 1786, with an Introductory 
 Notice, &c. &c. 8vo. Map, boards. 10s. 6d. 1879 
 
 BM" " Impression limited to One Hundred Copies." 
 
 CATALOGUE OF THE PORTRAITS AND PICTURES, &c, 
 
 the Property of the Incorporated Company of Merchants of the City 
 of Edinburgh, and the Institutions therewith connected, in their Hall, 
 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. Roy. 8vo. 1879 
 
 K3" " Printed for the Members." 
 
 EDINBURGH IN THE OLDEN TIME : Displayed in a series of 
 Sixty-Three Original Drawings, exhibiting Views of some of the 
 Streets, Public Buildings, and other Remains of Antiquity within the 
 City of Edinburgh, its Suburbs, and Leith, between the years 1717 
 and 1828, collected by the Rev. John Sime, Chaplain to the Trinity 
 College Hospital, Edinburgh, with Descriptive Letterpress. Imp. 
 folio, half-bound morocco, £5, 5s. 1879 
 
 BZT "This singularly varied and very remarkable Collection of Drawings (in China 
 hik) illustrative of ' Auld Reekie,' forms a record of some of the most curious and 
 interesting features of the Scottish Capital worth remembering among things now 
 gone or rapidly passing away. Their accuracy is their chief recommendation. The 
 lover of antiquity will see with satisfaction correct representations of many Streets
 
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 and Public Buildings which have long ceased to exist, except in the records of the city, 
 and will revive that fond remembrance which tradition never fails to preserve in the 
 hearts of a patriotic people. They bear internal evidence of having all been done by 
 the same hand. Executed apparently with the pencil in China ink, they have no 
 pretention to the qualities of light and shade which are necessai - y to pictorial effect. 
 On the other hand, there may be noted throughout an attention to topographical 
 accuracy and architectural detail which renders them perhaps more valuable as histo- 
 rical records than would have been drawings of the same subjects in the free imaginative 
 style of a Turner. So exact, indeed, is, generally speaking, the treatment of buildings, 
 that one is half inclined to suspect the artist must have been an architect by profession. 
 Their claim to any value, however, rests solely on their being truthful memorials of 
 Edinburgh as existing between the years 1717 and 1828. In the opinion of many anti- 
 quaries who have examined them, they are considered to be of permanent value. 
 They embrace a number of interesting objects of antiquity which are now no longer 
 in existence, and their accuracy may be depended upon. The Collection as a whole 
 may safely be declared to be quite unique and well worthy of preservation." 
 
 * * It has been well remarked that " The most common Views of Old and New 
 Edinburgh, if accurate, acquire a value through time, and no opportunity should be lost 
 in securing such records of its more fleeting features." 
 
 &3T " There is not, perhaps, a city in Europe that offers to the lover of picturesque 
 scenery, and to the historian, a more interesting series of subjects for the Pencil and 
 Pen than Edinburgh. The present volume presents a singular contrast to the most of 
 its predecessors, inasmuch as it relies for its interest solely on its merits as a curious 
 record of the appearance of streets and structures which were familiar to the citizens 
 in bygone days. They are curiosities in their own way, possessing an interest in 
 certain local, topographical, and architectural aspects, which they might not have 
 possessed if they had been of a higher artistic character. The descriptions are full 
 and interesting, and interspersed with many local references to men and things that 
 were ' familiar as household words ' to the citizens of sixty years ago. The draw- 
 ings themselves have been reproduced in a style which fairly preserves the general 
 appearance, while it softens the asperity of the Originals." 
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MAIDMENT, Advocate, 
 
 Edinburgh, from the year 1817 to the year 1878, with Notices 
 
 of his Life and Death, and of the Sale of his Library, &c, with a 
 
 Portrait. 8vo. Half-bound morocco, gilt top. 1883 
 
 S^ " Impression limited to One Hundred Copies for Private Circulation."
 
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