Edinburgh Castle, from the Grass Market (1887?)

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Edinburgh Castle, from the Grass Market

1887?

Composite woodblock engraving

20.8 cm high x 13.9 cm wide (8 ¼ by 5 ¼ inches, p. 36, framed.

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Passages Illustrated: Above "The Old Town" of "Edina, Scotia's Darling Seat"

Let us now walk, or "dander," as they say in the North, from the grand old castle down the castle-hill, through the High-street and the Canongate to Holyrood. Here we shall see much to remind us of bygone times; and as we pass the now poor-looking houses and glance at the slatternly dames and ragged, dirty children who are all about, we shall gladly go back in imagination to days when these houses were homes of lords and ladies, of scholars and divines, and when the very elite of old Scotland here made promenade. ["From Castle to Palace," 22]

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Bibliography

Watt, Francis M., and Andrew Carter. "From Castle to Palace." Picturesque Scotland: Its Romantic Scenes & Historical Associations Described in Lay and Legend, Song and Story.. London: John M. Murdoch [1887?], pp. 22-39.

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