Modern Athens! displayed in a series of views, or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century : exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs / from original drawings, by Thomas H. Shepherd ; with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britton, John, 1771-1857.

Contributor:

Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edinburgh (Scotland)--Description and travel.

Edinburgh (Scotland).

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Henry Sotheran Ltd. (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, ii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 4-88 pages, 49 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Modern Athens! displayed in a series of views

Edinburgh in the nineteenth century

Place of Publication:

London : Jones and Co., 1829.

Notes:

Dedication signed: John Britton.

Added engraved title leaf.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: p. 75-88 and seven plates at the end wanting.

Frost Collection copy bound with: Neale, John Preston. Scotland illustrated. London : Jones and Co., 1831.

Frost Collection copy has bookseller's ms. note in pencil on back free endpaper.

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy has stamp ("SOTHERAN. SACKVILLE ST. LONDON") on verso of front free endpaper.

Frost Collection copy: "List of Engravings" bound in at end of volume.

OCLC:

43326799