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Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Collins, London, 1974 VG/GOOD DJ is wrinkled and rubbed to corners and edges, with open cuts and some associated loss. dj is sunned to spine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions or marginalia.

London: Collins, 1974. 416pp. Blue cloth, sl. frayed pictorial d/w. 16 illustrations and maps on endpapers. Good. The story of Edinburgh Academy, 1824 - 1974. DJ has shelf wear and small tear.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

UK: Collins, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches. H/B 416 pages, condition is very good, the DJ has been price clipped. When Sir Walter Scott took a morning off to open a handsome new school in Edinburgh, Britain was just settling down after the Napoleonic Wars. Edinburgh was still in its Golden Age, an extraordinary blend of brilliance and squalor and social under-privilege. It was being wrested from its overcrowded perch on the Royal Mile by the building of gracious terraces on the other side of what is now Princes Street; and Lord Cockburn and Leonard Horner believed that a great classical school in the New Town to supplement the famous old High School would enable Scots to compete on equal terms with the English for leading places in expanding empire and affairs of state. They proved to be more successful than they could have hoped. In the ranks of the schoolboys at the Opening Ceremony of the Edinburgh Academy in 1824 sat a future Archbishop of Canterbury… Read More

Collins 1974 . Hardback ISBN 0004111702 Turquoise cloth covers with gilt titles. Maps on endpapers. Dustwrapper is creased with 3 tears and fading, now in protective clearview cover. Illus. 416 pages. Wt 0.9 Kg Very Good (Good)

Collins, 1974. Hardcover. Good.