Buy this book on-line Daiches, David : EDINBURGHHamish Hamilton, London, 1978 ISBN 0241898781
Slight wear to DJ. Corners slightly bumped. ; One of the world's great cities in great historical detail; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 272 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Daiches, David : EDINBURGH. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. DAICHES, DAVID: : EDINBURGHLONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,1978. ISBN 0241898781.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,scenic colour photographic upper panel,and pictorial colour engraving illustrated rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/
backstrip is sunned/faded though.Top+fore- edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original pale green textured cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white eps.Spine/ backstrip,along with both top edges,
lightly sunned/faded.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-272pp [paginated] includes part- paginated illus list/table,prologue,13 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w illus, maps,diagrams,photographs etc.,throughout the text and the book,an appendix,a biblio,an index,plus [unpaginated] half- title page,contemporary scenic/bw photographic illustrated double-paged title page,contents list/table.
'Mine own romantic town' Sir Walter
Scott wrote of Edinburgh.This is another man's view of the history of his city,from early Celtic times to the present day: a conscious sttempt,he says - selective,even at times impressionistic - to stand back from a subject in which his heart and mind are deeply involved.
Few places can be so rich in drama, anecdote and achievement.
Edinburgh is a city of contrasts,rugged and elegant,spacious and confined,genteel and warmly human.A city that has seen much cruelty and brutality; that was famous as the Athens of the North,the centre of intellectual and scientific life in Britain; that was and is one of the greatest monuments to the Neo-classic age. Festival visitors may arrive in search of pageantry and entertainment.Few can leave without having been aware of the subtleties of Edinburgh's atmosphere. Edinburgh is what history has made it.The story of its past is the clue to the
appeal of its present.
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