Miscellaneous essays and addresses / by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell ; also biographical note and bibliography
1891, New edition. London : J.C. Nimmo. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Limited and numbered edition: 274. Item #429169
Physical description; xxxii, 488 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography (pages [461]-484) and index. 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. Andrews -- On some varieties of historical style -- The fall of two empires, 1814 and 1870 -- Sir Walter Scott -- Rectorial address: Edinburgh -- Chancellor's address: Glasgow. Subjects; Prescott, William Hickling 1796-1859. Ford, Richard 1796-1858. Strange, Robert Sir 1721-1792. History. Proverbs.
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