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 and adorned by cuts from a collection of engravings, &c., formed by the author, with a valuable appendix of documents and authorities (a few copies had been printed for private circulation as early as 1859, and others apparently at later stages of completion; and 115 copies were now issued in folio, with extra plates). The author had been at work upon ‘Don John’ almost continuously since the conclusion of his ‘Cloister Life,’ but his fastidious taste and regard for precision conspired to postpone publication. He was happily inspired in his subject; he was never happier than when elaborating a treatise within a treatise, such, for instance, in the present case, as his description of a slave galley, or that of the state of the navies of the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century. His good judgment generally in historical and literary matters is shown very clearly in his ‘addresses.’ His style gained in lucidity and succinctness with his years, and few scholars have had a wider bibliographical or historical purview of their subjects.

The minor publications of Stirling-Maxwell comprise: 1. ‘A Posie of Poesies,’ Cambridge, 1839, 8vo (in conjunction with Alexander James Beresford Hope [q. v.]). 2. ‘An Essay towards a Collection of Books relating to the Art of Design, being a Catalogue of those at Keir,’ London, 1850, 8vo (25 copies; another edit. 1860). 3. ‘Lemmata Proverbialia,’ London, 1851, 4to (10 copies only, privately printed in red, one on vellum). 4. ‘Napoleon's Bequest to Cantillon: a Fragment of International History,’ London, 1858, 8vo. 5. ‘An Essay towards a Collection of Books relating to Proverbs, Emblems, Apophthegms, Epitaphs, and Ana,’ London, 1860, 8vo (75 copies privately printed). The writer enumerates over a century more works than Duplessis in his ‘Bibliographie Parémiologique,’ Paris, 1847, and by 1870 his collection exceeded twelve hundred works on the subjects indicated. 6. ‘Examples of the Ornamental Heraldry of the Sixteenth Century,’ London, 1868 (300 copies, folio). 7. ‘Arabesques and other Ornaments in Typographical Use at Zurich in 1559,’ London, 1868, folio (the impression consists of 50 copies, 25 with red ornaments and black text, 25 vice versa; privately printed). 8. ‘The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles V. Designed by Martin Heemskirk in 1555, and now illustrated with Portraits, Prints, and Notes,’ London and Edinburgh, 1870, folio (dedicated to the Duc d'Aumale, patron of the Philobiblon Society). 9. ‘Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century,’ London, 1872, folio (50 copies privately printed). 10. ‘The Turks in 1533: a series of drawings made in that year at Constantinople by Peter Coeck of Aelst, with introduction,’ London and Edinburgh, 1873, obl. folio (100 copies privately printed, and bound in emblematic cloth). 11. ‘Essay towards a Catalogue of Prints engraved from works of Velazquez and Murillo,’ London, 1873, 12mo (100 copies privately printed). 12. ‘Andreæ Vesalii Tabulæ Anatomicæ Sex,’ originally printed at Venice in 1538, London, elephant folio, 1874 (privately printed, 30 copies on paper, one on vellum, and one on parchment; prefixed are a portrait and a life of Andrew Vesalius by Stirling-Maxwell; the ‘Tabulæ’ are reproduced in facsimile). This choice reprint, like several others of these issues, has a presentation page with a coloured border enclosing Stirling-Maxwell's autograph (Brit. Mus.). 13. ‘The Procession of Pope Clement VII and the Emperor Charles V after the Coronation at Bologna on 24 Feb. 1530;’ engravings after Nicolas Hogenberg, with historical introduction, Edinburgh, 1875, folio (250 copies).

Stirling-Maxwell contributed some valuable papers to the early ‘Miscellanies’ of the Philobiblon Society, and several reviews to the ‘Examiner,’ to ‘Fraser's Magazine,’ and other periodicals. The life of Prescott in the eighth edition of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’ was by him; and he wrote a number of smaller pieces in prose and verse. A selection of his verses is included in Grant Wilson's ‘Poets and Poetry of Scotland’ (ii. 406). A six-volume edition of his ‘Works,’ comprising a new edition of ‘The Artists of Spain’ (4 vols.), a fourth edition of ‘The Cloister Life,’ and a volume of ‘Essays, Addresses,’ &c., appeared in 1891, 8vo (415 large-paper copies, with red initials and rules and duplicate illustrations).

[A very brief ‘biographical note’ is prefixed to the Collected Works, 1891, vol. vi. See also Fraser's Stirlings of Keir, 1858, and the same author's Maxwells of Pollok, i. 115; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1715–1886; Foster's Peerage and Baronetage; Athenæum, 1878, i. 89; Academy, 1878, i. 75; Times, 17 Jan. 1878; Scotsman, 17 Jan. 1878; Guardian, 16 Jan. 1878; Foster's Members of Parliament—Scotland; Ticknor's Life of Prescott; Martin's Privately Printed Books, pp. 520, 526, 540; Allibone's Dict. of English Literature; Anderson's Scottish Nation; Stirling-Maxwell's Works in Brit. Mus. Library; information kindly supplied by Dr. Aldis Wright and James Macdonald, esq.] 

STISTED, HENRY WILLIAM (1817–1875), general, son of Charles Stisted, lieutenant-colonel of the 3rd hussars, who