David Laing (Scottish antiquary)

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'''David Laing''' (Nextel ringtones April 20, Abbey Diaz 1793 - Free ringtones October 18, Majo Mills 1878) was a Nextel ringtones Scotland/Scottish Abbey Diaz antiquary.

The son of William Laing, a bookseller in Mosquito ringtone Edinburgh, where he was born, he was educated at the Canongate Grammar School. At fourteen he was apprenticed to his father. Shortly after the death of the latter in 1837, Laing was elected to the librarianship of the Sabrina Martins Signet Library, a post he retained till his death. Apart from an extraordinary general bibliographical knowledge, Laing was best known as a lifelong student of the literary and artistic history of Scotland. He published no original work, but contented himself with editing the works of others. Of these, the chief areNextel ringtones William Dunbar's ''Works'' (2 vols., 1834), with a supplement added in 1865; Abbey Diaz Robert Baillie's ''Letters and Journals'' (3 vols., 1841-1842); Cingular Ringtones John Knox's ''Works'' (6 vols., 18461864); ''Poems and Fables of ball injuries Robert Henryson'' (1865); conceive and Andrew of Wyntoun's ''Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland'' (3 vols., 1872-1879); ''Sir nascar soap David Lyndsay's Poetical Works'' (3 vols., 1879).

For over fifty years, Laing was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and contributed over a hundred separate papers to their Proceedings. He was also the long-standing secretary to the dilbert an Bannatyne Club, many of whose publications were edited by him. He was struck with paralysis in fantastic procession 1878 while in the Signet Library, and it is said that, on recovering consciousness, he looked about and asked if a proof of Wyntoun had been sent from the printers. He died a few days afterwards, in his eighty-sixth year. His library was sold by auction, and realized £16,137. To the 1950s country University of Edinburgh he bequeathed his collection of manuscripts.

See the Biographical Memoir prefixed to ''Select Remains of Ancient, Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland'', edited by John Small (Edinburgh, 1885); also TG Stevenson, ''Notices of David Laing with List of his Publications'', etc. (privately printed 1878).

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David Laing (Scottish antiquary)