Aberdeen University: The Universities of Aberdeen; A History, Robert Sangster Rait, 1895

Aberdeen University: The Universities of Aberdeen; A History, by Robert Sangster Rait, M.A.

We have recently acquired a small collection of books on the history of Aberdeen University - please see other listings for details.

Published by James Gordon Bisset, Aberdeen, 1895. First edition.

A very good navy blue cloth hardback with gilt. Only minor rubbing and wear, and fading to spine area. Soundly bound.

Text is bright and clean throughout. Uncut edges as issued. Offsetting to endpapers. Small bookseller's sticker to first pastedown. Bevelled boards.

Bookplate of John Morgan to first pastedown - master mason and builder of Rubislaw House in Aberdeen, described as a 'gothic fantasy' of a building.

Text in English.

xii + 382pp.

Approximately 234mm high x 159mm wide x 36mm deep.

Weight approximately 836g (unpacked).