Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland)

Gifford, John; McWilliam, Colin; Walker, David; Wilson, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0300096720 / ISBN 13: 9780300096729

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003

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Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light shelf wear only. Boards are clean, binding is sound and content is as unread. LW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300096720
• ISBN 13: 9780300096729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

The historic capital of Scotland is well known as a fortified medieval city with castle and crown-steepled church, its Royal Mile leading down to the Abbey and Palace of Holyrood; as a merchant city of the Stuart period with Parliament House and closely built houses and tenements; as a Georgian town with the largest sequence of planned developments in Britain; as a Victorian town of churches and banks, hotels and pubs, of quiet surburbs; and as a twentieth-century city where the Festival and its Fringe have encouraged the rediscovery of old buildings and the planning of new ones. A comprehensive gazetteer is provided to all notable developments of central Edinburgh, the seaport town of Leith and the suburban neighbourhoods.

Review

"The greatest endeavour of popular architectural scholarship in the world." -- Jonathan Meades, The Observer, 25th November 2001.