Address Read At The Delivery Of The Prizes To The Students Of The School Of The Honourable The Board Of Trustees For The Improvement Of Manufactures In Scotland Privately Printed. Paton, Joseph Noel, Sir.

[Bound with:]TULLOCH, John. A few Remarks on educational Progress and University Reform delivered at the Opening of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. [and one other.]Two works in one vol., 8vo, Paton: pp. 20, and Tulloch: pp. 17, [1]; bound with Harry Furniss's Royal Academy (1887, second edition, in original wrappers); two small autograph(?) corrections on p. 7 of Paton, title slightly foxed, last leaf dusty, with a small pencil sketch of some trousers; pencil corrections to pp. 6, 7, and 9 of Tulloch; bound together in contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed; from the library of the Scottish journalist John Skelton.Presentation copies of two very rare academic addresses, that by Sir Noel Paton (one of 20 copies printed according to a note on the title-page) inscribed 'John Skelton Esq., with N.P.'s kindest regards', the Tulloch with a slip inscribed 'From the Author' tipped in.The Trustees Academy School of Art in Edinburgh, founded 1760, was the forerunner of the Edinburgh College of Art and the main provider of artistic education in Scotland at the time; it had merged with South Kensington as the Government Art Schools in 1858. Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) was not himself a product of the Edinburgh Academy, having trained briefly at the Royal Academy Schools in London. Here he discusses the South Kensington System and the benefits of both artist and artisan training together, and of education for both sexes, both of which the Edinburgh Academy had practiced long before its affiliation with London.John Tulloch, Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, takes as his subject primary and secondary education in Scotland since 1872 – he had been on the board for the Education Act of that year – and the necessity of reform to the Universities.The Scottish journalist John Skelton (1831–1897), who wrote for Blackwood's under the pseudonym 'Shirley', would go on to write the entry on Tulloch for the Encyclopaedia Britannica after his death in 1886. He was a close friend of Paton, and they are buried close together in Dean Cemetery.I: NLS only in Library Hub. II: six copies in Library Hu b.