The Gibson Craig Library. Catalogue of the Valuable and Very Extensive Library of the Late James T. Gibson Craig, Esq. (Removed from Edinburgh.) Second Portion

Small 4to. Black pebble-grain calf boards with old but neat and strong black cloth tape spine added. 319pp. Very good. Same old but neat and strong black cloth tape to inner hinges; small ownership name inkstamped on title page and circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on "Index of Days of Sale" leaf. Second volume (only) of this three-part auction catalogue, tight and attractive despite homespun spine. Gibson Craig (1799-1886) was a Scottish solicitor but is remembered as a devoted antiquarian who built a substantial book collection. This second portion ran for fifteen sessions, beginning March 23rd and concluding April 16th. The catalogue contains 5,364 items and the original owner of this copy may have attended all fifteen, for a small price has been lightly pencilled alongside all 5,364 items. Tipped to front flyleaf is a 4 3/4" X 7½" publisher's announcement for the deluxe edition of this same catalogue (limited to 100 copies, bound by Zaehnsdorf).