In June 1871, on Halkett's death, Jamieson was appointed keeper of the library, and the work of printing the catalogue passed into his care. In 1872 he wrote a prefatory notice for an edition of Archie Armstrong's Banquet of Jests, and in 1874 edited a reprint of Barclay's translation of Brandt's Ship of Fools, to which he prefixed a notice of Sebastian Brandt and his writings. In 1874 he also privately printed a Notice of the Life and Writings of Alexander Barclay.
