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Miscellaneous essays and addresses / by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Baronet ; also biographical note and bibliography ; illustrated with six engravings.

Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, author.; Wynne Finch, Charles Arthur, 1841-1903, former owner.
1891
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Title
Miscellaneous essays and addresses / by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Baronet ; also biographical note and bibliography ; illustrated with six engravings.
Edition
[New ed.].
Created/published
London : J.C. Nimmo, 1891.
Description
xxxii, 488 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm
Associated name
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, author.
Wynne Finch, Charles Arthur, 1841-1903, former owner.
Series statement
The Works of Sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell Baronet ; v. 6
Note
Series title page, engraved, with colored ornamental border.

"Six hundred and forty copies of this New Edition printed for England, and four hundred for America ... No. 898."
Contents
The proverbial philosophy of Scotland
A few Spanish proverbs about friars
Wit and wisdom from West Africa
Adagia of Erasmus
William Hickling Prescott
Ticknor's Life of Prescott
Richard Ford (1)
Richard Ford (2)
Sir Robert Strange
The Dukes of Urbino
Devises and mottoes
Ancient Scottish seals
Spanish bull-fights
Rectorial address: St. Andrew
On some varieties of historical style
The fall of two empires, 1814 and 1870
Sir Walter Scott
Rectorial address: Edinburgh
Chancellor's address: Glasgow.
Series
Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir, 1818-1878. Works ; v. 6.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
AC8 .S7
Folger-specific note
Bookplate of Charles Arthur Wynne Finch.

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