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The grey city of the north / a book of drawings by Jessie M. King.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1050
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Jessie M., artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--Pictorial works.
- Edinburgh (Scotland).
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--Description and travel.
- Travel.
- Scotland--Edinburgh.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [52] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : McLagan & Cumming
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh & London : T.N. Foulis, 1925.
- Contents:
- Haddington's entry
- The assembly room
- The oratory
- Advocate's close
- The ancient Parliament house
- The Queen's post at the castle
- Mahogany Land
- Lady-Stair's Close
- The Nether Bow Port
- Smollett's House
- Bakehouse Close
- The fountain
- Queen Mary's Bath
- Ballantyne's Close
- The old timber-fronted house
- Waters' Close
- The White Horse Inn
- Lamb's Close
- The Cunzie House
- Stamp Office Close
- The College Wynd
- The old houses in the West Port
- Peffer Mill House
- The Weigh House.
- Notes:
- "July 1925"--Title page verso.
- Descriptive text on verso facing each plate.
- Grey-brown paper wrappers with illustration of 'The Queen's post at the castle' pasted onto front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 977088490
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