Edinburgh Interest : Yesterday and To-Day : Robert T Skinner : Presentation Copy

Yesterday and To-Day

By Robert T. Skinner

A presentation copy from the author.

Published by T. and A. Constable Ltd : Edinburgh, 1929. First Edition. Presentation copy from the author inscribed to the front endpaper. Hardback, 4to, green cloth with gilt titling, 10" by 7.5", 98pp, illustrated with 4 b&w plates.

CONDITION
A very good first edition. The cloth binding is very good and the joints sound. Endpapers a little age toned, all contents present and pages very clean throughout. All 4 plates present and in good order. Overall a lovely presentation copy.

CONTENTS
EDINBURGH LANDMARKS
THE VILLAGE OF DEAN
A SCOTT INCIDENT
PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE
EDINBURGH MYTHS
OBERAMMERGAU
ROME ON THE TYNE
A HUMBLE HEROINE
A GLIMPSE OF THE PERCY TERRITORY
MEMORABLE SHRINES
A NATIVE OF TORRYBURN
JAMES DICK OF FORRES
SCOTT'S ' MUSSEL CRAG'
WOODSIDE
A UNIQUE LIBRARY
INDEX.

Robert Taylor Skinner (1867–1946) was a 20th-century Scottish mathematician, historical author and antiquarian.

He was born at Bethelnie Farm near Aberdeen on 22 May 1867, one of 17 children of James Skinner (b. 1824), a farmer, and his wife, Jane Anderson (b. 1831). He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School.

In 1893, he began teaching Mathematics at George Watson's College. He moved to Donaldson's School for the Deaf in 1899. In 1903, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert McNair Ferguson, John Sturgeon Mackay, David Fowler Lowe, and John Brown Clark.

He was House Governor of Donaldson's Hospital and lived in his rooms there.[4] He retired in 1932. On retiral he lived at 35 Campbell Road in the Murrayfield district.